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the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers — aspire to the same control over education as the Klan did in the 1920s.

Except rather than wanting all Americans to be white Protestants, which is what the Klan wanted, the teachers unions want a culture purged of the Bible, purged of biblical truth, purged of the traditional values of households headed by a mother and father with children educated to look to the Ten Commandments for their rules in life. Teachers unions want a culture defined by woke ideology.

Although the NAEP measures reading and math to score our education system, education is about more than reading and math.

Education is about the transmission of values, transmission of what one generation understands as true and false, good and evil, right and wrong, to the next generation.

We cannot, in our free country, force the Bible and Christianity. But we also cannot have a reality, as we have today, where every parent does not have a choice to send their child to a school that teaches these truths.

The Wall Street Journal recently ran an article headlined “American Women Are Giving Up on Marriage.” The article reports that in 2023, 51.4% of women 18-40 were single, compared to 41.8% in 2000. In 2024, per the article, 39% of women 1829 identified as liberal, up from 32% in 2014.

This is a great success story of teachers unioncontrolled public education.

President Donald Trump is 100% on the right track to want to shut down the teachers unioninspired enterprise called the United States Department of Education.

The Department of Education has some 4,000 employees and a discretionary budget of around $80 billion. The 4,000 should be immediately terminated. There are some 50 million children in public schools K-12. The $80 billion could provide a $1,500 scholarship voucher to each of these children to attend whatever private school their parents choose.

Let’s end socialism and start a free market in America’s most precious product — education.

Star Parker is founder of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education. Her recent book, “What Is the CURE for America?” is available now. To find out more about Star Parker and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com. COPYRIGHT 2025 CREATORS. COM