Oklahoma Is Anxious To Throw Off The Yoke Of The US Department of Education

Two days after Trump’s landslide election, and hoping that Trump would follow through on his promise to close the corrupt US Department of Education, Oklahoma’s Secretary of Public Instruction Ryan Walters was enthusiastically preparing Oklahoma schools for just that. Walters issued a memo to superintendents across the state saying the state will work with Trump 47 to transition to block grants as they are closing the US Department of Education.

TAMING THE MONSTER, ONE DEPARTMENT AT A TIME

Walters outlines five areas where he sees this (closing Dept of Ed) as beneficial for Oklahoma schools: Parental rights, ending social indoctrination in classrooms, protecting patriotism in curriculum, stopping illegal immigration’s impact on schools and blocking foreign influence.

“For decades, the US Department of Education has unjustifiably expanded the federal government’s power over American education, and that overreach has squeezed local communities and parents out of control of their own schools,” said Walters. “Thanks to President Trump, we are going to reverse that trend. By eliminating the federal bureaucracy, money can be efficiently directed to local schools and allow disenfranchised parents to have more direct say over education in their states and communities. Working with President Trump, I will do everything I can to limit the federal overreach into education and return parents their rightful authority over our schools.”

Walters says his department is “preparing to work hand in hand with an incoming Trump Administration to continue the work of dismantling the federal government’s decades of undue influence over public education.”

The memo also says the Office of Public Instruction will be directing its resources to ensure those priorities are championed so schools can smoothly transition after the coming changes. The other 49 states need to work with the new Trump Administration in returning control to their state and their states’ parents.

It is interesting to note that Oklahoma was completely red in the 2016, 2020, and 2024 presidential elections, including the state’s massive Indian Reservations. It was the only state that had no blue counties. Indeed, Native Americans nationwide voted 65% for Trump/Vance.

This is the only way to reverse the downward trend in education that can be traced directly back to 1979 when President Carter and his Democrat House & Senate unconstitutionally usurped states’ rights (the 10th Amendment^) in order to create the US Department of Education.

^Tenth Amendment, ratified December 15, 1791: “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.”