“For too long, Washington bureaucrats have imposed a uniform approach to education, stifling innovation and limiting parental choice,” Paul said in a news release. “It’s time to empower families and local leaders to make the best decisions for their students, rather than relying on out-of-touch federal regulators.”
Although Trump’s executive order stated that “closing the Department of Education would provide children and their families the opportunity to escape a system that is failing them,” only Congress, which created the agency in 1979 under President Jimmy Carter, can terminate it.
Trump has directed Education Secretary Linda McMahon to dismantle the department and “put yourself out of a job,” with her stated goal of sending “education back to the states and empower all parents to choose an excellent education for their children.”