Trump and Congress should advance education freedom

things are moving very fast in Washington, DC, and now it looks like President Trump and Congress are coming together to advance education freedom for all students. As Congress moves through its budget reconciliation process and President Trump seeks to close the Federal Department of Education, they should remain focused on ensuring educational freedom for all students. They’re hearing from all sides that they shouldn’t close it at all, but they need to remain focused. The public school system is controlled by government bureaucrats and teachers unions, while the actions of union officials don’t reflect the views of many teachers, the unions often promote policies that are not in the best interest of children. This has been going on a long time, so long that Apple founder Steve Jobs had said in quotes, the unions are the worst thing that happened to education, because it is not a meritocracy. It turns into a bureaucracy, which is exactly what has happened. The teachers can’t teach, and administrators run the place, and nobody can be fired. It’s terrible. End Quote, The American Federation of Teachers aft as their known and the National Education Association, NEA, we all know them as they’re closely aligned with the hard left in American politics. In 2016 for instance, the aft adopted a stand with Planned Parenthood resolution in support of the nation’s largest abortion provider, the NEA Oh, they advocated for, in quotes, social and educational strategies fostering the eradication of institutional racism and white privilege perpetuated by white supremacy culture. Really, end quote, really. This is the ideology that underpins this push for divisive, critical race theory indoctrination in our K through 12 schools and in our colleges across America. This is what’s ending. You know what? During the COVID spring of 2020, and the next school year, teachers union set a very high bar for reopening schools. It could not go to school in person, our little kids in only some districts, the ones controlled by these unions. This subordinated the needs of children who suffered emotionally, socially, academically, because they were absent from that in person school during that period, and it really disproportionately impacted poor children in our country, a strong majority of American people believe parents should be able to designate tax dollars to send their children to the public, private and or home school of their choice. Black, white and Hispanic Americans are nearly identical in this view, with a 2023 poll finding 71% support from the American people. We know that the key to the success of our American economy is freedom and competition. Competition is what produces excellence. And how can it be that in the sphere where excellence is possibly the most important value more important than anywhere else, the education of our children. We don’t have any freedom. We don’t have any competition. Ideally, federal education funds should be block, granted to the States with instructions that they need to provide on an equal basis for public school, private school, home school, whatever the parent thinks is best for their child. That would enable President Trump to close the Department of Education and for Congress to enable parents in all 50 states to choose the best educational opportunity for their children. Educational freedom and equal opportunity for all American children is a moral and national imperative, so Congress and President Trump should seize this chance to make this happen. The time to do it is now. I.