Kirk's Case for Abolishing the Department of Education

Showing 58 Department of Education videos from Charlie Kirk's video collection.

The Department of Education became a frequent target in Charlie Kirk's political commentary, argued for abolition as part of what he described as a broader dismantling of an unconstitutional federal administrative state he traced back to Woodrow Wilson. Kirk made the case most directly in his debate with Randy Perez at Arizona State University, defending school choice, property-tax-based local funding, and free-market alternatives to federal education policy against Perez's arguments about equity and institutional barriers. He extended the argument through a series of exchanges with a retired Department of Agriculture employee, using admissions of government waste to press the case that private and voluntary institutions, including Catholic schools, generally outperformed centralized federal bureaucracy. Kirk's conversation with Fox News host Pete Hegseth about his book Battle for the American Mind connected the Department of Education specifically to a century-long progressive campaign Kirk argued had deliberately stripped classical and biblical education out of American classrooms, an argument he paired with optimism about the growth of homeschooling, school choice, and classical Christian education as replacements. Kirk also tied Department of Education policy to Trump's broader executive actions on DEI, arguing federal diversity mandates in areas like hiring and admissions violated the Civil Rights Act's original meritocratic intent.