President Trump needs all the help he can get to enact his agenda. This is exactly what he was looking for.
As Congress hands Trump a major gift with this game-changing scheme.
A Bold Move to Reshape American Education: Rep. Ogles Introduces the Make Education Great Again Act
On Wednesday, Representative Andy Ogles (R-TN) unveiled a groundbreaking piece of legislation aimed at turning President Donald Trump’s recent executive order into lasting law. The order, signed just last week, seeks to dismantle the Department of Education—a federal entity born in 1979 under President Jimmy Carter. Now, with the introduction of the Make Education Great Again Act, Ogles is pushing to cement this closure and shift the reins of education back to states and local communities.
The executive order alone isn’t enough to shutter the department permanently; that requires Congress to act. Ogles’ bill steps into that gap, offering a clear path forward.
“This bill will ensure that Congress permits President Trump’s directive to close the Department and that any cuts made by the Secretary are authorized,” reads a summary of the measure sent via email. It’s a decisive step toward redefining how education operates in America.
At the heart of the legislation is a belief that parents—not federal officials—should guide their children’s learning. The bill’s text declares, “Congress finds […] [that] Parents, as the primary educators of their children, should have meaningful choices in their children’s education, including public, charter, private, and homeschooling options.”
It argues that handing decision-making power back to local levels will spark better outcomes for students nationwide. “Federal overreach in education policy has led to decreased local control and has not demonstrably improved academic outcomes for students,” the proposal states plainly.
The Make Education Great Again Act doesn’t stop at closing the department—it lays out a vision for what comes next. It empowers the Secretary of Education to redirect federal funds to prioritize parents and communities over Washington bureaucracy, slash regulations that stifle local control, and champion school choice through tools like education savings accounts, vouchers, and charter schools.
The bill also calls for cutting red tape, boosting transparency about curricula and funding, and ensuring federal dollars fuel student success—not top-down mandates.
Ogles didn’t mince words in a press release announcing the bill. “For far too long, the Department of Education has been poisoning the minds of students by injecting woke, anti-American curriculum into our schools,” he said. He accused the agency of overseeing a collapse in literacy and academic quality while attacking the foundations of traditional education.
“This Department not only oversaw record drops in student literacy and educational excellence, but it waged war against a traditional liberal education rooted in the texts of the Western tradition, classical trivium, and our Biblical heritage,” he stated.
The Tennessee lawmaker painted a stark picture of the stakes. “[F]ederalizing education reduced the community classroom to a Marxist breeding ground that influenced students to stray from the principles of their parents, rebel against society, and embrace postmodern nonsense,” he explained.
For Ogles, this bill is a lifeline—a chance to join Trump in a “historic effort to save the American classroom and return character-led excellence to our schools.”
The timing is no coincidence. Ogles hinted at the legislation on March 21, just a day after Trump ordered the Secretary of Education to “take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Department of Education and return authority over education to the States and local communities.”
That directive lit the fuse; now, Ogles’ bill aims to carry the flame. It’s a move that could set the stage for a sweeping overhaul of educational standards across America.
Education Secretary Linda McMahon, speaking with Breitbart News reporter Katherine Hamilton on March 25, signaled her readiness to collaborate with lawmakers. “This department was established by statute, by law,” she said.
“A lot of the programs that are in place are in accordance with statutes, so we know that we’ll be operating in conjunction with Congress, fully abiding by all the terms of the law.” The road ahead, it seems, will be a team effort.
The Make Education Great Again Act stands as a bold call to rethink education in America—stripping away federal layers and betting on local voices to lead the way. Whether it succeeds could shape classrooms for generations to come.
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