Potential Trump Education Secretary calls for DOE to be 'shut down': 'Put parents back in the driver's seat'

Moms for Liberty co-founder Tiffany Justice has been often floated arsenic a imaginable prime for President-elect Donald Trump's education secretary, but the aforesaid bureau she could pb is besides 1 she says should beryllium abolished.

"Parents are the fig 1 operator of pupil success. Parents were enactment successful the backmost spot erstwhile it came to their kids' education. We request to enactment them successful the driver's seat, and I cognize that President Trump believes that, too," Justice said Monday connected "Fox & Friends First."

"Ultimately, I judge the Department of Education should beryllium unopen down. Since it was created, we person lone seen plummeting accomplishment scores, teachers unions having much power connected our kids' acquisition and much planetary interference successful our kids' education. It's nary coincidence that kids successful Kenya are learning the aforesaid benignant of broad enactment acquisition program that they are successful New Jersey, truthful we perfectly request to halt the discarded astatine the national Department of Education and enactment parents backmost successful the driver's seat."

TRUMP WOULD NEED CONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL TO DISSOLVE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, EXPERTS SAY

President-elect Donald Trump (L) and Co-founder of Moms for Liberty Tiffany Justice (R) stock a infinitesimal during the 2024 Joyful Warriors National Summit connected August 30, 2024 successful Washington, DC. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Trump has floated abolishing the agency, a propulsion that has lingered among conservatives for immoderate time. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) curriculum, enactment acquisition and teachers' national concerns person lone exacerbated the issue.

Abolishing the bureau would beryllium a pugnacious order, however. It would necessitate 60 senators' approval. According to reports, a reconciliation measure defending bureaucratic positions and acquisition programs is simply a much apt alternative.

If the Education Department stands, Justice says the incoming Trump medication should instrumentality respective steps to amended acquisition crossed the committee – abolishing Critical Race Theory and putting an extremity to the "transgender insanity" successful nationalist schools.

SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHER RESIGNS, APOLOGIZES AFTER VIRAL VIDEO THREATENING TRUMP VOTERS SPARKS BACKLASH

The US Department of Education gathering is seen connected August 21, 2024 successful Washington, DC. (Tierney L. Cross)

"We privation to get backmost to communal consciousness governance successful the United States of America. We privation much schoolhouse choice. Parents person the fundamental right to nonstop the acquisition of their children. They should person transparency into what their children are learning successful schoolhouse and yet person the prime arsenic to wherever their kid is educated," she said.

"President Trump is simply a truly astute guy. He's made astonishing picks truthful acold successful his cabinet, and I person nary uncertainty that helium volition find galore ways to execute the things that helium has promised the American radical that helium volition do."

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