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. All legislation from any level of government that would interfere with or restrict that liberty should be opposed.

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. Education as a whole, therefore, 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 championed 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  Present obsolete methods of teaching will be superseded by a scientific pedagogy.”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.
• 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.
• All legislation from any level of government that would interfere with or restrict that liberty should be opposed.
• 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.
• Compulsory attendance laws should be repealed. 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 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.

• All current federal legislation related to education should be repealed. 
• No new federal laws subsidizing or regulating education should be enacted.

WE OPPOSE ANY FEDERAL CONTROL OVER THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN:

• Because control over education is now being relegated to departments other than the Department of Education, we clarify that NO federal agency, department, board, or other entity may exercise jurisdiction over any aspect of children’s upbringing. Education, training, and discipline of children are properly placed in the domain of their parents.
• Under NO circumstances should the federal government be involved in national teacher certification, educational curricula, textbook selection, learning standards, comprehensive sex education, psychological and psychiatric research testing programs, and personnel.

THE CONSTITUTION PARTY COMMITTMENT

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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