Scott McCulloch, chair of the District 2 school board, has been in education since 1977, and a member of the board since 2018.

Trump also supports efforts to privatize the K-12 school system, including through vouchers for private schools. Both he and Vance have launched repeated attacks on both K-12 and higher education institutions over practices that seek to advance racial diversity and tolerance and policies that provide protections to transgender students,

American Culture Project’s Corey Deangelis says Donald Trump’s plan to dismantle the department of education is “amazing”.