Markwayne Mullin Defends Push To End Department Of Education

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In a video released to social media, Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) defended the push to end the Department of Education.

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00:00Let's talk about the Department of Education. It's all over the news. The left media is freaking

00:04out about this. Now let's think about this. You have a business that you have been running since

00:091979. And since 1979, you were the number one business in the country at whatever you were

00:17doing. Today, you're 34th, spending more money than you've ever spent, and you're constantly

00:24losing money along the way. And you think it's a good idea to keep it open? That's what the

00:28Department of Education is. Before the Department of Education, we actually taught our children

00:34the basics. We actually didn't invoke this woke movement, this agenda pushing out of Washington,

00:41D.C., but we allowed local teachers to teach. We allowed local school boards to be involved.

00:47We didn't give them all this red tape and bureaucracy that had to teach their kids

00:51how to take a test, rather than actually how to teach them to succeed in life. In 1979,

00:57we were number one in the world on education. Today, with reading and math, our lowest score is 34

01:05in math. In reading, I think we're somewhere around 12th or 14th. I really don't know that

01:09number, but we're not even in the top 10. What President Trump has made very clear,

01:14he wants to get government out of the way, allow you to do your job, allow teachers to teach,

01:20allow school boards to be involved, allow superintendents to make decisions which is best

01:24for their school and their students. Because I promise you, a school in Macalester, Oklahoma,

01:31is much different than a public school in Washington, D.C. One size does not fit all.

01:36The Department of Education has proven our point on that. What President Trump is trying to do here,

01:40promises made, promises kept. Get government out of the way, let you live your life.

Markwayne Mullin Defends Push To End Department Of Education

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