Trump Administration Moves to Dismantle the U.S. Department of Education

For decades, the U.S. Department of Education has ballooned in size and cost wasting trillions, pushing radical ideologies, and delivering virtually no improvements in student performance. Now, President Trump is doing what Washington elites never had the courage to do: shutting it down.

Last week, the Trump Administration took a major leap toward dismantling the 45-year-old Department of Education. In a strategic and well-executed move, the department entered into six interagency agreements with four federal agencies Labor, Interior, Health and Human Services, and State. This initiative signals not just reform, but the beginning of a full-scale phase-out.

Here’s what’s changing:

• Workforce-Driven K-12 Education: The Department of Labor will now help steer federal K-12 education programs to better align with job skills and career pathways. This puts an end to the ivory tower nonsense that left students with useless diplomas and no future.

• Postsecondary Streamlining: Labor is also taking charge of postsecondary education alignment with workforce development so students can actually get jobs after graduation.

• Native American Education Reform: The Department of the Interior will take over Indian education, giving local leaders more control and replacing ineffective federal one-size-fits-all policies.

• Foreign Medical Accreditation Overhaul: HHS will now evaluate foreign medical schools to ensure they meet U.S. standards protecting students and taxpayers alike.

• Real Support for Student Parents: A second HHS partnership will provide smarter, streamlined childcare access for low-income student parents, making higher education more accessible without bureaucratic red tape.

• Foreign Language and National Security Focus: The Department of State will now manage international education programs, aligning them with America’s strategic interests.

Secretary of Education Linda McMahon, who has led this charge with clear-eyed determination, summed it up: “Cutting through layers of red tape in Washington is one essential piece of our final mission.” And that mission is nothing short of shutting the department down completely with congressional support.

Since January, President Trump has taken bold, decisive action. Just three days after returning to the White House, he ordered the elimination of toxic Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives from the department. That move alone wiped out over 200 DEI webpages and slashed more than $2.5 million in taxpayer-funded ideological nonsense.

Then in March, Trump signed the “Improving Education Outcomes by Empowering Parents, States, and Communities” executive order. Its purpose? To begin the legal process of eliminating the department and returning education decisions to the states where they belong.

President Trump said it plainly: “We are going to be returning education very simply back to the states where it belongs… It is going to work. Absolutely, it is going to work.”

And he’s right. Data shows that increased federal involvement in education hasn’t improved student outcomes. In fact, U.S. students now rank 23rd in reading and 25th in math among developed nations, according to the OECD. All while federal spending on education has more than quadrupled since 1980.

This bloated bureaucracy has become little more than a political weapon to enforce woke ideology on children teaching gender confusion, rewriting history, and pushing anti-American values. But those days are numbered.

The recent 43-day government shutdown proved just how irrelevant the Department of Education has become. As Secretary McMahon noted, the shutdown “underlined just how little the Department of Education will be missed.”

What we’re witnessing is the beginning of a long-overdue correction. President Trump is giving parents their voice back. He’s restoring authority to state and local communities. And he’s making sure taxpayer dollars serve students not bureaucrats.

It’s not just reform. It’s revolution and it’s exactly what America needs.

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