Bennet Statement on Executive Order on the U.S. Department of Education

Mar 20, 2025|Press Releases
Denver, Co.— Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet, former superintendent of Denver Public Schools, released the following statement in response to President Trump’s executive order dismantling the U.S. Department of Education:
“Parents are worried enough about the state of America’s public education system. Our children were having a tough time before the pandemic, and things have become more difficult since. Reading scores have hit a twenty-year low, and chronic absenteeism is on the rise. All of this is proof we need to work together to reimagine our public schools for the 21st century, not bring a wrecking ball to them.
But the answer was not to tap a former wrestling executive as the nation’s Secretary of Education. The children who will suffer the most from President Trump and Elon Musk’s outrageous decision are America’s most vulnerable — children living in poverty, children with disabilities, and children in rural communities.
We would be far better off working with every American family to deliver high-quality early childhood education, building modern schools to prepare every high school graduate to earn a good living, and making our higher education system affordable for those who want to go to college.”
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