Trump Signs EO to Dismantle the Department of Education
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For years, intercessors have faithfully prayed for an end to the Department of Education and for the restoration of high-quality, state-led education in America. Now, those prayers have been answered.
From The Daily Wire. President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order dismantling the Department of Education, following through on a key campaign promise that supporters argue will strengthen parental rights and improve academic outcomes across the country.
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Trump’s order directs Education Secretary Linda McMahon to “take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Department of Education and return education authority to the States and local communities.”
However, McMahon is also directed to “ensure the effective and uninterrupted delivery of services, programs, and benefits on which Americans rely.” …
Promises made, promises kept: President Trump signs an executive order to officially begin the process of dismantling the Department of Education. pic.twitter.com/kJj5UcMU3o
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) March 20, 2025
“Everybody knows it’s right. The Democrats know it’s right,” Trump said just before signing the order. “We’re going to be returning education, very simply, back to the states where it belongs, and this is a very popular thing to do, but much more importantly, it’s a common sense thing to do, and it’s going to work. Absolutely, it’s going to work.”
Trump said the United States has “two stats you don’t want — the most money spent per pupil, and you’re at the bottom of the list, and that’s where we are, like it or not, and we’ve been there for a long time.” …
“The United States spends more money on education by far than any other country…but yet we rank near the bottom of the list in terms of success.
Those are two stats you don’t want.”@POTUS pic.twitter.com/HFYXSn6JBw
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) March 20, 2025
Trump added that he wanted to make “one little personal statement,” that “teachers, to me, are among the most important people in this country, and we’re going to take care of our teachers, and I don’t care if they’re in the union or not in the union. That doesn’t matter.”
TRUMP: “Teachers to me are among the most important people in this country, and we’re going to take care of our teachers.”
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) March 20, 2025
He said Thursday’s order is about “our most cherished group of people, and that’s our children. We want to have our children well educated. We want them to love going to school. We have examples of it. Look at those beautiful, bright-eyed faces. They are so smart.” …
Trump’s move to close the department follows through on a key campaign promise that was met with cheers on the campaign trail.
“I say it all the time, I’m dying to get back to do this. We will ultimately eliminate the federal Department of Education,” Trump said at a September rally in Wisconsin. …
Frustration with public schools reached a boiling point over the last several years. During the pandemic, parents pleaded with schools to open the classrooms and stop requiring face masks on children. After COVID, parents complained of crippling learning loss, schools hiding children’s gender identity changes, and teachers pushing controversial ideologies like Critical Race Theory.
The White House pointed out in a fact sheet ahead of Thursday’s order that 13-year-olds’ reading and math scores are the lowest in decades despite skyrocketing spending per student. Meanwhile, the Biden administration spent billions of dollars on entrenching “radical ideologies” in education and bureaucratic red tape, the White House said. …
Critics have pointed out that the Education Department doesn’t do much educating. Though it spends $80 billion in taxpayer dollars each year, it has no say over public school curriculums, which are decided at the state and local levels. Instead, it doles out $18.4 billion annually for Title I, the low-income school district program, and $15.5 billion for special education. It also enforces certain Title IX civil rights laws and sets the rules for colleges to participate in the $1.6 trillion federal student loan program. …
To eliminate the Department of Education outright, Trump would need an act of Congress, but his order dismantles the department as much as possible in the meantime.
Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA) said he plans to introduce legislation soon to formally shutter the department. …
What do you think of this executive order? Share your thoughts and prayers below.
(Excerpt from The Daily Wire. Photo Credit: The White House/Flickr)
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Praise God!
This department is unconstitutional and should never have been created. It’s the parent’s responsibility before God to give an account of how he “trained up” his child to raise him “in the nurture and admonition of the Lord”. Dismantling the DOE is a step in the right direction. Much more prayer and discipling needs to be done by the Church.
Help us, Almighty God!
It’s a great thing
Teaching subjects that our students need. This is what schools should be doing. Get everything else out
Stop trying to take other people’s children.
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It is common sense to put it back to state level. I also agree for proper financial support for teachers. My 2 daughters and husband were all teachers. They worked very hard including after hours and spent their own money many times to help the children.
I am totally in agreement.
Dana Sue Canary
Kelso WA
Father God,
You know what a waste the money spent on the federal department of education has been. In the name of Jesus I pray You root out every teacher, administrator, and aide who does not care about the well-being of children, but is instead traumatizing and deceiving them.
I pray for every child to be placed in a learning situation with adults who see each child through Your eyes of love and care, who will nurture and help them grow to become healthy and strong mentally and morally so they can live successful and productive lives.
I pray for every state department of education to be purged of evil and corruption. Enable parents to guide and protect their children’s education.
Thank You for creating each child with a wonderful purpose and gifting.
Show Yourself mighty on behalf of children everywhere. They are the future and the enemy wants to destroy them, but You are so much greater than any power of hell. I ask for an overwhelming outpouring of Your Holy Spirit’s power and compassion in grace and healing and deliverance for all these children have been through.
So be it and Amen.
I write this prayer as a person whose husband and myself had a combined 50 years in public schools from K – community college in both teaching and administrative roles.
I passionately agree, Rochelle – as a retired teacher & child-care provider, amen!!
I’m concerned if we give it back to the states the progressive states won’t change.
We live in Illinois and chose to home school due to the public school policies in the 1980’s. Our children home school for the same reason. This progressive state is trying to put an end to parents ability to home school or even private schools, so we pray Father in heaven please keep the doors open for parents to have more say in their children’s education. In Jesus Name.
“Father in heaven please keep the doors open for parents to have (all) the say in their children’s education.”
Yes Lord, I agree with Eileen. Please hear our prayer.
Amen! God’s Kingdom come! God’s will be done in earth as it is in Heaven!
Facilitating the closure of the Department of Education and returning education authority to the States and local communities is the smartest move we can take to better educate our children. I’m applauding this and praying this will bless the students of our nation and fix our education system. I also lift up President Trump and I thank God that He has given us a president that is not afraid to stand up to the truth of what we need in this nation and make it happen.
I am praising God for this decision that sends the education of children back to states and parents. Our nation can’t afford the waste of this unneeded dept.at the federal level. Thanking God every day for our wonderful president
and all his cabinet members!
Thank You God for loving and looking for the children.
God bless Pres. Trump and his cabinet leaders with wisdom and discernment of the best for our children. Praying the states of this country the important role and responsibilities they have to care and educate our children from Pre-K to colleges and universities. Praying they will be good stewards and assume accountability of the money and other resources given to them. In the mighty name of Jesus. Amen.
Heavenly Father, I pray that your people would see the importance of obeying your command to teach their children your ways. When they rise up, sit down, go out and come in…continually. Please forgive us because we have not done that. We have entrusted our precious children to strangers who deny you and teach contrary to your laws. Please encourage, strengthen and help your people to step our in faith and obey You rather than men. Thank you for our children and bless them, in Jesus name we pray. Amen.
I am praying for President Trump. I don’t think he is making all the right decisions and I think the very very poor in this country will be effected. Elon Musk I don’t trust him
LORD, thank You for this effort in the restructuring of the education of our children. Lead US and guide us in Your wisdom in making the education of our children to line up with Your will. Teach us to learn of and from You and to NOT rely on ANY MAN to do what You have proclaimed to do in Your word!
Lord, please raise up leadership at the state and local levels to take this ball and run with it – to the correct goalpost!! Please intervene in this process so that there is excellence in basic education, first and foremost, and then enrichment programs that will provide well rounded instruction and opportunities. May the states recognize the value of alternative forms of education, other than public schools, and allow and support them. At least without federal mandates and bribes, state leadership and local school boards will have greater freedom to consider parental input. Business people might be more involved, and influence what would provide a better workforce in specific locales. Those states that will not listen to the voice of the people, and remain resistant to common sense, may find themselves losing their tax base as parents and businesses move to states that will listen to the voice of the people. Now, Lord we need this carried to the desired outcome and that requires legislation – please work in our Congress to accomplish this dismantling of the DoED.
I completely agree with The education be returned to the states. Political adversaries that corrupt our education systems should be null and void. We must get back to teaching math, history, ( truth about our history) reading and put Bible reading and prayer back. Even on having a class on Biblical truth to bring our nation back to God.
Our schools still need federal funding and there are some states where there are people are very very poor and believe this will effect our kids negatively, some parents don’t care and kids are going to school hungry a lot of kids are getting neglected by their parents and believe this will hurt example some schools provide lunches to kids in the summer time because of this neglect
This is a great opportunity for the ekklesia to step in and fulfill the mandate God gave us, not the government.
I am praying that this order by President Trump cleans up our education system. As a teacher for 30 years, I have seen the dramatic decline in academics over the years with a larger focus based on ideologies and not academics. Education has become more about “dumbing everything down”, “giving undeserved grades to appease parents” , SEL, Spirit Weeks and feelings. Our children are our future and at this point, the future is not looking bright.
Thank You Lord You heard the cry of the Intercessors. It’s time for the Department of Education to be fixed and be on the right track. We ask give wisdom to President Trump and his administration in every decisions they make will be in alignment to Your plan and purpose, in Jesus name God bless America
Please remember each state does not have good Godly governors – the state of Illinois has put a bill through – That’s against home school, parents and children and wanting to regulate their homes and children in their home. Our children belong to us in the Lord, no government. I rebuke this in Jesus mighty name amen. Stand pray against this evil.
Thank you, Lord, for Pres. Trump and for giving him a brave heart to dl the right thing for our country a d our children.
I remember when we had open prayer in grade school and I remember when it was taken out of schools. Back in the late fifties and early sixties and it has been a downward slide since then. Thank God for President Trump, his cabinet and those that have prayed for this to happen.
Father God, we thank for leadership that will put our children first.
America need Christian Education Bible in the Public School. And must teach history of the Independent Proclamation.
Thank you President and you and your family and governments are in my prayer.
Father God, there have been states that are joining in with you and having the ten commandments and the Bible brought into the school system and I pray that all the states would follow suite. They would all join in Father I cry out to you on behalf of the children. You want the children to come into You and I pray that they kingdom come Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven in the school system in Jesus name