The government shutdown exposes the Ministry of Education as unnecessary

When Washington DC comes to a standstill, the liberal media rushes to tell you the sky is falling. Randi Weigngarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, and her allies are calling out that schools will collapse without the Department of Education and that President Donald Trump is responsible for the closure. She has said he is “holding the American people hostage.”

The only people holding Americans hostage are the teachers unions. They have held your children’s education hostage during COVID. They hold teachers hostage if they don’t adhere to liberal standards. And worst of all, they treat parents like roadblocks and hold them hostage if they push back.

The government was shut down, federal employees at the Department of Education were laid off, more than half of the department’s staff was laid off, and the schools are still operating. Teachers teach. Students are learning. The world didn’t end.

Here’s the truth the media will never say out loud: This shutdown pulled back the curtain on one of the biggest scams in America: the U.S. Department of Education.

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For decades, teachers unions and the liberal allies they fund in D.C. have told the American people that without the federal bureaucracy, education would crumble. They said states cannot handle education funding, accountability or innovation without “guidance.”

They were wrong.

Schools continued to function during the shutdown because real funding—Title I, IDEA, and other important streams—flows through long-standing formulas and planned appropriations, which continue even when federal staff are away from their desks. States already manage these dollars.

The closure simply stopped administrative processing and new regulations, not the actual flow of money to schools. In other words, the Department of Education did not previously run the system, and the closure proved that.

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The shutdown proved what many of us already knew: States are not only capable of managing education, they already are. Education in this country is funded and managed primarily at the state and local level. The federal government adds bureaucracy, not value.

Let’s be clear: There has never been a reason for the U.S. Department of Education to exist. It was created in 1979 as a political favor, an agreement between Jimmy Carter and the teachers unions to maintain their power. And it shows.

The teachers unions are not just one of many players in this story. They are the reason the Ministry of Education even exists. The department gives them power, money and political protection, and in return the unions defend the department’s survival at all times. One feeds the other. That is why they are working so hard to convince Americans that without them the country would collapse, because without Washington they will lose control.

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Teachers unions have been feeding off the Department of Education for decades to weaponize money and influence, pumping ideology into curriculum standards, teacher training programs and accreditation pipelines that tell parents to sit down and shut up.

Now that the lights in the department are off, there is panic. You’ll see their headlines: “The world is burning down without the Department of Education!” The only thing that ‘burns’ are the lies they have been telling the Americans for forty years.

Here in the real world, children learn, teachers teach, and parents are in control again. The system works fine without federal interference.

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This shutdown is a wake-up call. It hasn’t destroyed American education. It revealed who broke it all along.

The unions can start crying about it. The rest of us will continue to do our jobs.

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