Dismantling the Department of Education

President Donald Trump announced Monday that his administration will begin mass layoffs at the U.S. Department of Education following the Supreme Court’s decision to allow his administration to proceed with ending the employment of more than 1,000 employees.

Critics argue that this will effectively dismantle the federal agency in many ways. 

This will be another promise kept with the American people.

President Trump promised that if elected, he would dismantle the Department of Education.

Be informed, not misled.

On Monday, the Supreme Court cast a 6-3 vote “along ideological lines,” lifting a lower court order that had blocked the layoffs and required the reinstatement of dismissed staff, The Hill reported.

The six justices in favor offered no written explanation. However, dissenting justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote that the court gave “the Executive the power to repeal statutes by firing all those necessary to carry them out.”

“The majority is either willfully blind to the implications of its ruling or naïve, but either way the threat to our Constitution’s separation of powers is great,” they wrote.

I would add that the greater threat to our children is the classroom of social and political indoctrination.

The Hill said, "The administration’s victory enables the president to move closer to fulfilling one of his major campaign promises to oversee the elimination of the Education Department, which was created in the 1970s."

Sotomayor, Kagan, and Brown Jackson said, “The majority is either willfully blind to the implications of its ruling or naive, but either way the threat to our Constitution’s separation of powers is grave.”

Following the ruling, Education Secretary Linda McMahon vowed to implement the layoffs again.

“While today’s ruling is a significant win for students and families, it is a shame that the highest court in the land had to step in to allow President Trump to advance the reforms Americans elected him to deliver using the authorities granted to him by the U.S. Constitution,” McMahon said in a statement.

It marks the latest victory for the Trump administration at the Supreme Court, which has regularly intervened on its emergency docket to rein in lower courts that have blocked the president’s initiatives. 

Now, with this GREAT Supreme Court Decision, our Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, may begin this very important process,” Trump added.

McMahon replied to Trump’s post on X, stating: “We’re on it, Mr. President!”

“The United States Supreme Court has handed a Major Victory to Parents and Students across the Country by declaring the Trump Administration may proceed on returning the functions of the Department of Education BACK TO THE STATES,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social.

The ruling overturns a previous decision by U.S. District Judge Myong Joun.

After nearly half of Education Department workers lost their jobs in March, Joun ruled the Trump administration could not “effectively dismantle the department without an authorizing statute,” The College Fix previously reported.

The plaintiffs “have provided an in-depth look into how the massive reduction in staff has made it effectively impossible for the Department to carry out its statutorily mandated functions,” Joun wrote.

That's the point.

Takeaway

Founding Father Noah Webster is credited with being the father of public education in America.

Based on what he said and wrote, he would agree with Trump.

He said we must "Discipline our youth in early life in sound maxims of moral, political, and religious duties."

He said, "Education is useless without the Bible."

And he said, "The Bible is America's basic textbook in all fields."

Webster also said this: "In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed...No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people."

"The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scriptures ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws", he said..."All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery, and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible."

Indeed. 

Be Informed. Be Discerning. Be Vigilant. Be Faithful. Be Prayerful.