President Trump took a bold step toward fulfilling a long-standing conservative goal on Thursday, signing an executive order to begin dismantling the Department of Education—a move that hasn’t just been decades in the making, but nearly half a century overdue.
“Today we take a very historic action that was 45 years in the making,” Trump declared before signing the order. “We’re not doing well with the world of education in this country, and we haven’t for a long time.”
The executive order directs Education Secretary Linda McMahon to begin a structured phase-out of the federal department, with the goal of returning authority to states, local communities, and—most importantly—parents.
The message is clear: end the bloated bureaucracy, stop handing power to D.C. pencil-pushers, and put education decisions back where they belong—at home.
According to a White House fact sheet, the Department of Education has burned through over $3 trillion since its creation, yet student outcomes remain abysmal. Despite a 245% increase in per-pupil spending, test scores are stagnant, international rankings are sliding, and the U.S. public school system continues to churn out mediocrity at premium prices.
“Everybody knows it’s right,” Trump said. “We have to get our children educated.”
This moment is more than policy—it’s a reckoning. The federal Department of Education, born from a Jimmy Carter campaign promise to teachers’ unions in 1979, has ballooned into a top-down enforcement arm of the far-left’s radical agenda. For decades, it has served as a megaphone for indoctrination instead of instruction—pushing woke garbage, Common Core confusion, and political activism over reading, writing, and arithmetic.
And while President Reagan tried to shut it down in 1981, he was blocked by a Democrat-controlled Congress. President Trump is now finishing what Reagan started.
The executive order outlines a “transition plan” to ensure no disruption to existing programs during the wind-down, but the end goal is clear: shutter the Department, reallocate the resources, and let states innovate without interference from Washington.
It’s not just about saving money—it’s about saving the next generation from academic decay and federal overreach.
So to every parent tired of curriculum battles, endless testing, and ideological propaganda masked as education—Liberation Day just got a second meaning.
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