Trump and McMahon Are Fixing Education, and DC Is Panicking
Jorge Martinez – Education Secretary Linda McMahon is doing exactly what President Donald J. Trump hired her to do: Clean out a failed education bureaucracy, return power to states and parents, and put students – not Washington politics – first. That’s why Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is attacking her.
From the moment Secretary McMahon took the helm at the U.S. Department of Education, she made it clear she would not be another caretaker of a broken system. She has focused on three things Washington has avoided for decades: streamlining a bloated bureaucracy, redirecting resources from federal offices to classrooms, and restoring control of education to states and local communities. In just months, she has delivered more meaningful structural reform than most secretaries attempted in entire terms. Continue reading
Ronald Beaty – In the shadow of a sprawling, state-funded education leviathan, a quiet revolution brews. Homeschool co-operatives — tight-knit bands of parents, pooling wisdom and will — are not merely fleeing America’s public schools; they are forging a defiant stand against a cultural tide that threatens to drown the nation’s soul.
Jonathan Turley – Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and the Chicago Board of Education are following the lead of other major cities and eliminating gifted school programs in the name of achieving greater racial and social “equity.”