I 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 369 
To provide for the elimination of the Department of Education, and for 
other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 13, 2025 
Mr. ROUZER introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Education and Workforce 
A BILL 
To provide for the elimination of the Department of 
Education, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘States’ Education Rec-
lamation Act of 2025’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) Principles of federalism embodied in the 
Constitution of the United States entrust authority 
over issues of educational policy to the States and 
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the people and a Federal Department of Education 
is inconsistent with such principles. 
(2) Tradition and experience dictate that the 
governance and management of schools in the 
United States are best performed by parents, teach-
ers, and communities. 
(3) The education of the Nation’s students is 
suffering under a managerial government. 
(4) The Department of Education has weak-
ened the ability of parents to make essential deci-
sions about their children’s education and has un-
dermined the capacity of communities to govern 
their schools. 
(5) In the 41 years of its existence, the Depart-
ment of Education has grown from a budget of $14 
billion to almost $73.5 billion in annual discre-
tionary appropriations administering around 100 
programs. Meanwhile, education performance for 17- 
year-olds has stagnated since 1971. 
(6) The Department of Education has fostered 
overregulation, standardization, bureaucratization, 
and litigation in United States education. 
(7) The Department of Education expends 
large amounts of money on its own maintenance and 
overhead. While the average national salary for pub-
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lic school teachers is $61,730 the average salary for 
a Department of Education employee is $112,724. 
(8) In certain States, the average State salary 
for a public school teacher is less than the national 
average. In North Carolina, the average salary for a 
public school teacher is $53,975. 
(9) Recent tests reflect poor results in mathe-
matics, science, and reading for American students 
compared with students from other nations. 
(10) Only through initiatives led by parents and 
local communities with the power to act can the 
United States elevate educational performance to-
ward an acceptable level. 
(11) The current system of top-down education 
uniformity is detrimental to local businesses and 
communities, the economic needs of the States, and 
the Nation’s ability to compete globally for jobs. 
(12) The Department of Education has been 
hostile to many promising reforms, including re-
forms that would empower parents, teachers, and 
local communities. The United States, once a labora-
tory of innovation through the experiments of the 
States, is moving toward education standardization 
that does not consider the individual educational 
needs of our diverse population of students. 
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SEC. 3. ABOLITION OF DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. 
The Department of Education is abolished, and, with 
the exception of the programs transferred under section 
7, any program for which the Secretary of Education or 
the Department of Education has administrative responsi-
bility as provided by law or by delegation of authority pur-
suant to law is repealed, including each program under 
the following: 
(1) The Department of Education Organization 
Act (20 U.S.C. 3401 et seq.). 
(2) The General Education Provisions Act (20 
U.S.C. 1221 et seq.). 
SEC. 4. GRANTS TO STATES FOR ELEMENTARY AND SEC-
ONDARY AND FOR POSTSECONDARY EDU-
CATION PROGRAMS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subject to the requirements of 
this Act, each State is entitled to receive from the Sec-
retary of the Treasury, by not later than July 1 of the 
preceding fiscal year— 
(1) a grant for fiscal year 2025 and each suc-
ceeding fiscal year through fiscal year 2033, that is 
equal to the amount of funds appropriated for the 
State for Federal elementary school and secondary 
school programs for fiscal year 2025 (except for the 
funds appropriated for fiscal year 2025 for such pro-
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