On the Pennsylvania campaign trail in 2023, computer entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy demanded the dismantling of the Education Department during the Republican primary.
Additionally, at a 2023 campaign appearance in New Hampshire, former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley said that if elected, she would “clean out the Department of Education.”
Trump outlined his additional goals for American education in a July campaign email. These included severing federal funding for any programs or schools.
That promote “critical race theory,” initiating civil rights investigations into Asian American-discriminating schools, establishing a credentialing system.
To certify educators who “embrace patriotic values,” and “find[ing] and remov[ing] radicals who have infiltrated the federal Department of Education.”
