Welcome to the Tudor Dixon podcast today. We have a returning guest, Erica Donald's on the show. I'm very

excited because she is a returning guest, but she has a new role in the world. And it's a very

important one. She is the chair of the America First Policy Institute Center for Education

Opportunity. Erica, I know you've founded a bunch of charter schools, and this has been

your area of interest for about 15 years now. And I'm so impressed that you get to do this

and kind of interface with the new administration. So tell us a little bit about how that's going.

Yeah, I really am living in my school choice dream world right now. I've been working on

school choice for 15 years. I served on my local school board about 10 years ago, but dedicated

my life to expanding education opportunities for families like myself. That's why I got into this.

I needed school choice for my own kids. And being at America First Policy Institute, heading up their education nationally, not only

do I get to continue to work on school choice in the states, which is where it belongs, as we know,

but I also get to interface with the White House and Congress and Secretary McMahon and her

team on the things that they're doing to respond to the executive orders

and to eventually dismantle the Department of Education. So I'm really having a great time traveling

back and forth to D.C. and just making sure that we use this time that we have with Trump in office

to deliver on his promises to the American people. Well, and that last one that you mentioned

dismantling the Department

of Ed. Obviously, that's getting quite a bit of attention. And there's some people that, I think it's

misleading. I think the media has been very misleading about what the Department of Ed does, the Federal

Department of Ed. So you have your State Department of Ed and then you have the Federal Department of

Ed. There is a certain amount of funding. But can we just kind of go through from your perspective

what that looks like? Because I think people hear that and there's suddenly stories about

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