At its semi-annual National Committee Meeting, held in Sparks, Nevada, the Constitution Party passed a resolution to “Defend Education Against State – Funded Intrusion.”

It states, in part, that

“The Constitution of the United States delegates no explicit authority to the federal government to tax or fund education, or to regulate education. All such powers are reserved to the states, or to the people of the states, under the Tenth Amendment.

All human rights, including the right to govern one’s household and direct the upbringing and education of children, are endowed by the Creator and not granted by any government.

The family is the first and foundational unit of government, with parents bearing the full responsibility and authority to educate their children as a matter of natural and divine law.

The State does not own children, and it has no rightful claim over the direction of their education, particularly when such education is privately funded or directed within the home.”

The Constitution Party declares that all forms of tax-funded subsidies for non-public education are unconstitutional, immoral, and
incompatible with the principles of individual liberty, private property, and family sovereignty.

The Constitution Party calls upon the legislatures of all fifty states to nullify, reject, and repeal any existing tax-funded programs that subsidize private, religious, or home education, and to refrain from enacting any such programs in the future.

The Constitution Party rejects the redefinition of programs like ESAs as public education and affirms that such reclassification undermines both the integrity of public schooling and the independence of private and home education.

The Constitution Party affirms the sacred right of parents to educate their children without enticement, interference, or coercion by the State.

The Constitution Party rejects any claim—explicit or implied—that children are wards of the State, and we declare that no government has authority to intrude upon the God-given hierarchy of the family, where parents, not politicians, are the rightful stewards of the next generation.

The Constitution Party warns all liberty-minded citizens, churches,
homeschool associations, and private educators that the rebranding of ESAs as “public education” is a Trojan horse for expanded government regulation, surveillance, and eventual control over private and home education. We urge all who value liberty to oppose this deceptive promise of state-funded “choice” and to defend the necessary wall of
separation between education and state control.

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“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to
the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

U.S. Constitution, 10th Amendment

“A power to establish schools… is no more implied in the constitution, than a power to
establish religion.”

John Taylor, Construction Construed, and Constitutions Vindicated, 1820

The Constitution of the United States delegates no explicit authority to the federal government to tax or fund education, or to regulate education. All such powers are reserved to the states, or to the people of the states, under the Tenth Amendment.

All human rights, including the right to govern one’s household and direct the upbringing and education of children, are endowed by the Creator and not granted by any government.

The family is the first and foundational unit of government, with parents bearing the full responsibility and authority to educate their children as a matter of natural and divine law.

The State does not own children, and it has no rightful claim over the direction of their education, particularly when such education is privately funded or directed within the home.

The Constitution Party Platform affirms that

“We support the unimpeded right of parents to provide for the education of their children in the manner they deem best, including home, private or religious [and] all legislation from any level of government that would interfere with or restrict that liberty should be opposed.

Taxation to fund “school choice” programs, such as Education Savings
Accounts (ESAs), vouchers, or other redistributive subsidies that redirect public funds to private education constitutes a violation of private property rights and imposes unjust obligations upon families who do not consent to such programs.

ESAs and similar programs are often misleadingly presented as extensions of public education, even though they funnel tax dollars into private or home-based settings, thereby eroding the distinction between public and non-public schooling.

Tax-funded programs for non-public education blur the line between public and private schooling, inviting government oversight, mandates, data collection, and ideological control under the guise of choice.

True educational freedom rests not in government-funded alternatives but in the restoration of parental and local authority, free from state intrusion and coercive taxation.

The Constitution Party declares that all forms of tax-funded subsidies for non-public education are unconstitutional, immoral, and
incompatible with the principles of individual liberty, private property, and family sovereignty.

The Constitution Party calls upon the legislatures of all fifty states to nullify, reject, and repeal any existing tax-funded programs that subsidize private, religious, or home education, and to refrain from enacting any such programs in the future.

The Constitution Party rejects the redefinition of programs like ESAs as public education and affirms that such reclassification undermines both the integrity of public schooling and the independence of private and home education.

The Constitution Party affirms the sacred right of parents to educate their children without enticement, interference, or coercion by the State.

The Constitution Party rejects any claim—explicit or implied—that children are wards of the State, and we declare that no government has authority to intrude upon the God-given hierarchy of the family, where parents, not politicians, are the rightful stewards of the next generation.

The Constitution Party warns all liberty-minded citizens, churches,
homeschool associations, and private educators that the rebranding of ESAs as “public education” is a Trojan horse for expanded government regulation, surveillance, and eventual control over private and home education. We urge all who value liberty to oppose this deceptive promise of state-funded “choice” and to defend the necessary wall of
separation between education and state control.

Resolution passed by the Constitution Party National Committee, October 18, 2025, in Sparks, Nevada.

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We acknowledge that parents have the unimpeded right to provide for the education of their children in the manner they deem best, including home, private or religious schools. We oppose all legislation from any level of government which would interfere with, or restrict, that liberty.

THE PRINCIPLES

The Constitution grants the federal government NO authority over Education.

“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

Tenth Amendment, U.S. Constitution, 1787

All teaching is related to basic assumptions about God and man. Because of this, education as a whole cannot be separated from religious faith. The law of our Creator assigns the authority and responsibility of educating children to their parents.

THE PROBLEM

Federal control of education has long been a tool used by communists and humanists as a means of overtaking and corrupting our American way of life.

“Free education for all children in government schools. Abolition of children’s factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, etc. etc.”

Karl Marx (10th Point of the Communist Manifesto)

  “We believe in the right to universal education.”

The Humanist Manifesto II

“…the schools, colleges and universities will be coordinated and grouped under the National Department of Education and its state and local branches.  The studies will be revolutionized, being cleansed of religious, patriotic and other features of the bourgeois ideology.  The students will be taught on the basis of Marxian dialectical materialism, internationalism and the general ethics of the new Socialist society.  Present obsolete methods of teaching will be superseded by a scientific pedagogy.”

William Foster (former head of the US Communist Party; On Using Education to Destroy America)

THE SOLUTION

Update to this section via 2025 Resolution: Defend Educational Freedom from State-Funded Intrusion

• Education should be free from all federal government subsidies, including vouchers, tax incentives, and loans, except with respect to veterans.
• Parents have the unimpeded right to provide for the education of their children in the manner they deem best, including home, private or religious schools.
• Oppose all legislation from any level of government that would interfere with or restrict that liberty.
• Equitable tax relief for families whose children do not attend government schools should be provided for.  This could be in the form of tuition write-offs.
• Repeal compulsory attendance laws. Parents need not defy the law by refusing to send their children to schools of which they disapprove.
• We affirm the free-market principles which drive the improvement of education through non-traditional options, such as internet-based schools, charter schools, Christian and private schools, as well as home schooling options.

WE CALL FOR THE ELIMINATION OF THE FEDERAL DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION:

• There is NO Constitutional provision that empowers the federal government to provide for and regulate the education of our children.

• Repeal all current federal legislation related to education.
• Do not enact any new federal laws subsidizing or regulating education.

WE OPPOSE ANY FEDERAL CONTROL OVER THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN:

• NO federal agency, department, board, or other entity may exercise jurisdiction over any aspect of children’s upbringing. Education, training, and discipline of children belong in the domain of their parents.
• Cease relegating any aspect of children’s education to other government agencies, thereafter, defunding and dismantling the Department of Education.
• Remove federal government involvement in national teacher certification, educational curricula, textbook selection, learning standards, comprehensive sex education, psychological and psychiatric research testing programs, and personnel.

WE CALL UPON THE LEGISLATURES OF THE STATES TO EXERCISE THEIR POWERS UNDER THE TENTH AMENDMENT.

• Nullify the “No Child Left Behind” Act, and all other similar legislative actions.
• Remove all regulations imposed by the Department of Education.
• Reject federal monies for grades K-12.

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