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Governor Mike Braun: Trump is returning education to the states and to parents




Washington Examiner
Gov. Mike Braun
March 24, 2025
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Education is one of the most important things we do as a country, but it only
works when it’s directed by parents, local communities, and states — not by the
federal bureaucracy in Washington, D.C.

President Donald Trump is taking bold action to turn education back to where
it belongs: with the people and the representatives closest to them.

The Department of Education isn’t in the Constitution. In fact, it’s a few
years younger than the Rubik’s Cube. But over its 45-year existence, education
in America has not gotten better. The National Assessment of Educational
Progress shows stagnation in reading and math performance by students overall
since 1986. We can, and must, do better.

People clearly want their government to run more like a business, where
results are everything. I built a business for 37 years, and if a department
wasn’t getting results, it was time to try a new approach.

By allowing states to have full freedom over how they spend their education
funding from the federal government, we would have 50 laboratories for
innovation rather than one top-down government bureaucracy.

Indiana has been leading the way.

Where we had previously been in the middle of the pack on the “Nation’s Report
Card,” we are now sixth in the nation in reading, with promising math progress
as well.

I assure you that our parents, teachers, and local and state elected officials
know what Hoosier students need better than anyone in Washington, D.C.

The closer a government is to the people it serves, the more accountable it
is. I learned this when I served on my local school board for 10 years: if you
were doing something wrong, you’d hear about it. Someone would be waiting for
you after church or find you in the bleachers to tell you about it. That’s the
way it should be.

As more and more power over education became concentrated in Washington, the
more federal bureaucrats came to believe they were the ones who were really in
charge of our children’s education.

When I served in the Senate, I had the opportunity to question Biden Education
Secretary Miguel Cardona in the committee overseeing education. I had one
question for him: Are parents the primary stakeholder in their own children’s
education?

He couldn’t answer it. He told me parents are one important stakeholder in
their children’s education, along with the government.

And here I thought that was an easy question.

We should be clear: Parents are in charge of their children’s education. And
the closer the decisions that affect education are to the parents, the better
off we will be.

By centralizing so much power of education in the federal government, we’ve
made our children’s education into yet another political weapon for entrenched
special interests to wield against their enemies.



In my inaugural address as governor, I said that as Trump shrank the size of
the federal government, states should reassert their proper, central role in
public life.

Washington has simply become too big and too powerful in our lives, and voters
sent a clear message by electing Trump as their president: They want that to
end.

By fully empowering the states to decide how their federal education dollars
are spent and winding down the unnecessary, ineffective, and politicized
Department of Education, Trump is putting parents in the driver’s seat and our
children first.

Mike Braun is the 52nd governor of Indiana. Previously, he owned a business in
his hometown and served as a U.S. senator.


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