Education
Congressman Brooks is fortunate to have a mother, wife, and two daughters on which he can draw considerable insight on education issues. The Congressman’s mother taught economics and government at Lee High School in Huntsville. Before retiring in 2010, Congressman Brooks’ wife taught 7th and 8th grade math at Whitesburg Middle School in Huntsville,. And his two daughters majored in elementary education in college and have taught in elementary schools in California, Utah, and South Carolina.
Congressman Brooks believes that education of America’s young people is of the utmost importance and local government governs best. Further, he strongly believe parents, school board members, and local superintendents are vastly better at setting K-12 education policy than is the federal government. In accord with this view on education, in Congress Congressman Brooks seek to do two things. First, he supports repealing all federal government K-12 mandates that force education tax dollars to be diverted from teaching kids to testing, paper pushing, and the like. Second, he supports sending federal K-12 funds to local and state governing officials with no strings attached and without paying for the federal side of the expensive paper pushing bureaucracy, thereby leaving more funds for classroom teachers.
News Releases
Washington, DC— Wednesday, Congressman Mo Brooks (AL-05) joined 23 of his Republican colleagues in sending a letter to John P. Roth, Acting Secretary of the Air Force, and General John W. “Jay” Raymond, Chief of Space Operations, demanding that Lt. Col. Lohmeier be immediately reinstated. Lt. Col. Lohmeier was recently discharged from the Space Force for publicly expressing concerns about Critical Race Theory and the 1619 Project being used as teaching or training materials in the U.S. military.
Washington, DC— Thursday, Congressman Mo Brooks (AL-05) announced he is taking three concrete actions against bigoted and dangerous Critical Race Theory teaching:
Washington, DC— Wednesday, Congressman Mo Brooks (AL-05), along with 6 original cosponsors, introduced the Zero Foreign Influence in Education Act.
This bill amends Section 117 (20 U.S.C. §1011f) of the Higher Education Act to:
1. Require American universities to report any and all monetary contracts or gifts from foreign countries and entities.
2. Require universities to publicly disclose the names of all foreign donors.
Washington, DC— Friday, Congressman Mo Brooks (AL-05), joined by Alabama Representative Tommy Hanes and CRFA Chair Clint Reid, praised Alabama A&M University’s decision to close their Confucius Institute.
Washington, DC— Congressman Mo Brooks (AL-05) recently mailed each of Alabama’s 140 legislators a letter and a U.S.