President-elect Donald Trump’s call to return control of schools to the states and potentially dismantle the Department of Education is the “most incredible bold, conservative education agenda the country has ever seen,” Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters told Newsmax on Tuesday.

“This is how you get the schools back on track,” Walters told Newsmax’s “Wake Up America,” while accusing the nation’s teachers unions of a push to “gaslight the American people” on the country’s fate without a Department of Education.

“Before the Department of Education, we forged the greatest country in the history of the world,” Walters said. “We had one-room schoolhouses across the country that were teaching kids math, reading, science, and their history classes. It was actually a love for country and patriotism.”

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