Trumps Education Action Plan - Department of Education

The text contains 10 key points related to Trump's plan for schools, as explicitly listed in the document:

1. Respect parents' rights to control their children’s education.
2. Empower parents at the local level to hire/fire school staff.
3. Focus classrooms on essential knowledge and skills.
4. Teach students to love their country.
5. Support the return of prayer to schools.
6. Ensure safe, secure, drug-free schools with strict discipline.
7. Promote school choice for parents.
8. Include project-based learning experiences.
9. Provide internships and work experiences for students.
10. Offer excellent job and career counseling in schools.

11. Close the Department of Education

Transcript:

1. Respect Parents' Rights to Control Education

"We will respect the right of parents to control the education of their children."

2. Empower Local School Boards to Hire and Fire Staff

"We will empower parents at a local school board to hire and reward great principals and teachers, and also to fire the poor ones, the ones whose performance is unsatisfactory. They will be fired. Like on The Apprentice, 'You’re fired.'"

3. Focus on Essential Knowledge and Skills

"We will ensure our classrooms are focused not on political indoctrination, but on teaching the knowledge and skills needed to succeed. Reading. Writing. Math, science, arithmetic, and other truly useful subjects."

4. Teach Students to Love Their Country

"We will teach students to love their country, not to hate their country like they are taught right now."

5. Support Prayer in Schools

"We will support bringing back prayer to our schools."

6. Ensure Safe, Secure, and Drug-Free Schools

"We will achieve schools that are safe, secure, and drug-free with immediate expulsion for any student who harms a teacher or another student."

7. Promote School Choice

"We will give all parents the right to choose another school for their children, if they want. It’s called school choice."

8. Introduce Project-Based Learning

"We will ensure students have access to project-based learning experiences inside the classroom to help train them for meaningful work outside the classroom."

9. Provide Internships and Work Experience

"We will strive to give all students access to internships and work experiences that can set them on a path to their first job. They’re going to be very, very successful. I want them to be more successful than Trump. Let them go out and be more successful. I will be the happiest person in the world. But we want our children to have a great life and be successful."

10. Offer Career Counseling for Students

"We will ensure that all schools provide excellent jobs and career counseling so that high school and college students can get a head start on jobs and careers best suited to their God-given talents."

11.  Close the Department of Education

"One other thing I’ll be doing very early in the administration is closing up the Department of Education in Washington, D.C., and sending all education and education working needs back to the States. We want them to run the education of our children because they’ll do a much better job of it. You can’t do worse. We spend more money per pupil by three times than any other nation, and yet we’re absolutely at the bottom. Well, one of the worst. So you can’t do worse. We’re going to end education coming out of Washington, D.C. We’re going to close it up."