To: 119th United States Congress
From: The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), Partners, and Members of the State Legislatures
Dear Members of the 119th United States Congress,
As leaders and representatives of our respective states, we write to you to express our strong support for President Donald J. Trump’s proposal to eliminate the U.S. Department of Education and return education policy and decision-making to the states. This effort represents a crucial step toward restoring America’s fundamental constitutional principles and empowering parents, teachers, and education leaders to meet the unique learning needs of every student.
Since its establishment in 1980, the U.S. Department of Education has imposed rigid bureaucratic mandates, centralized its authority over education policy across America, and spent trillions of dollars without measurable improvements in student outcomes. This top-down approach from the federal government has stifled innovation, limited educational choices for parents, and created one-size-fits-all policies that fail to address the diverse needs of our nation’s students.
The Department has also frequently overstepped its constitutional bounds, with recent examples including an illegal attempt to write-off student loan debt, regulations crafted to make it nearly impossible to operate charter schools, and a rewrite of the Department’s own interpretation of Title IX to fit its own political ideology.
The 10th Amendment is clear: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” Since the Constitution does not mention education, the framers clearly intended for the states to lead on this front.
Eliminating the U.S. Department of Education will allow our states and local communities to direct education policy as the Constitution intends. It will foster the competition and innovation that ultimately drives student success, ensure that taxpayer dollars are spent efficiently and invested directly into classrooms rather than administrative overhead, and allow our schools to focus on providing a high-quality education to every student.
We firmly believe that this bold action proposed by President Trump aligns with our nation’s core principles of limited government and federalism. Removing the federal government’s overreach in education empowers states to adopt policies that reflect the needs and priorities of our local communities.
We stand ready to support Congress and the President in this important effort to restore control of education policy to where it belongs: with states and families. We urge you to work with President Trump to make this vision a reality for American students.
Signed,
From: The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), Partners, and Members of the State Legislatures
Dear Members of the 119th United States Congress,
As leaders and representatives of our respective states, we write to you to express our strong support for President Donald J. Trump’s proposal to eliminate the U.S. Department of Education and return education policy and decision-making to the states. This effort represents a crucial step toward restoring America’s fundamental constitutional principles and empowering parents, teachers, and education leaders to meet the unique learning needs of every student.
Since its establishment in 1980, the U.S. Department of Education has imposed rigid bureaucratic mandates, centralized its authority over education policy across America, and spent trillions of dollars without measurable improvements in student outcomes. This top-down approach from the federal government has stifled innovation, limited educational choices for parents, and created one-size-fits-all policies that fail to address the diverse needs of our nation’s students.
The Department has also frequently overstepped its constitutional bounds, with recent examples including an illegal attempt to write-off student loan debt, regulations crafted to make it nearly impossible to operate charter schools, and a rewrite of the Department’s own interpretation of Title IX to fit its own political ideology.
The 10th Amendment is clear: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” Since the Constitution does not mention education, the framers clearly intended for the states to lead on this front.
Eliminating the U.S. Department of Education will allow our states and local communities to direct education policy as the Constitution intends. It will foster the competition and innovation that ultimately drives student success, ensure that taxpayer dollars are spent efficiently and invested directly into classrooms rather than administrative overhead, and allow our schools to focus on providing a high-quality education to every student.
We firmly believe that this bold action proposed by President Trump aligns with our nation’s core principles of limited government and federalism. Removing the federal government’s overreach in education empowers states to adopt policies that reflect the needs and priorities of our local communities.
We stand ready to support Congress and the President in this important effort to restore control of education policy to where it belongs: with states and families. We urge you to work with President Trump to make this vision a reality for American students.
Signed,
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