Local parents, educators and school boards are best suited to know and respond to the needs of each student. We need to free teachers to teach instead of just teaching toward a standardized test and provide parents educational choices for their children where every child regardless of where they live, or their economic status can get a great education.
Support parents' educational choices and local control over schools rather than federal bureaucratic control.
Occurrences
Evidence
Cloud's education page says he wants to shift control away from Washington and back to parents, local school boards, and state/local decision-makers, rather than a top-down federal model.
The office's current DOGE survey asks which departments should be cut and explicitly includes the Department of Education as an option.
Assessments
In federal legislative context, this promise would be fully delivered only if Michael Cloud materially advanced or helped enact policy expanding parental choice or reducing federal control over education. The evidence shows he continues to advocate the position on his official education page and has taken a modest official action by soliciting support for cutting the Department of Education, which is consistent with the promise. But the record provided does not show a passed law, a successful amendment, or a substantial legislative achievement that actually shifted control from Washington to parents or local school authorities. That supports partial credit for visible alignment and some action, but not full delivery.