Donald Trump campaigned on a promise to shutter the Department of Education and hand control back to the states. Now—through his recent Executive Order—he’s taken a big step to gut this broken bureaucracy's scope and influence.

Since it was created in 1979, we have only seen a decline in our educational outcomes. Data shows a 10 percent drop in reading and math for 17-year-olds since 1980. The department's mission was to help educate our kids, and that mission has failed.

Worse, it’s morphed into a Department of Indoctrination. 

States can do far better with our tax dollars—especially Red States.

Governors and mayors answer to voters and they can better design programs to teach their states’ kids without federal overreach. Trump’s order slashes the department’s reach, keeping that money local, where it belongs.

Trump is saving our kids from this destructive indoctrination machine.

He’s putting American children first.

I’m with him … and I think American families are as well.