Let’s start with merit.

any grant applications that come into the department that utilize AI will be more strongly considered for their grants

It’s disturbing that these Virginia school division leaders are fighting hard to keep boys in girls sports and bathrooms than they are to improve outcomes for students.

Parents must be the primary decision-makers in their children’s education. The allegations that Burlington violated parents’ rights by administering a survey against parents’ wishes — and particularly one that is graphic, and downright…

We will not allow New York education leaders to continue violating the Civil Rights Act by inconsistently and unlawfully deeming some national-origin-based mascots as acceptable while determining others are not.

Oklahoma is proving the value of returning education to the states, with schools that emphasize literacy and equip students with what they need to succeed in the workforce.

The Kansas districts’ alleged behavior of allowing gender ideology to run amok in their schools is an affront not only to the law, but to the sound judgment we expect from our educational leaders.

I think every school system needs to work within its own community to decide what curriculum works best there. What are the ways that their students can learn? And that's why it's imperative that education be returned to the states because…

I think that is the least worry that anyone should have because Congress appropriates that money and it flows through whichever agency will be distributing it. So that money flowed from 1965 before there was a Department of Education, and…

I think as we make this tour and as I see what best practices are and we provide these toolkits, we develop them and then can deliver them to the states and say these are things that you can choose from. These are things that have been…

Holding universities accountable for rampant antisemitism is not an attack on free speech, but an encouragement of it.

But I was asked, and actually was accused, of perhaps shutting down free speech. I said, absolutely not. That is not what this is about.