The Department of Education has been a boondoggle since its inception.
Education should be done at the local and state level. Parents should be in charge of the education of their children, whether in private school or public school. The reality is that the more local the education, the more it reflects the needs, desires, and wants of the parents, who, of course, are the ones most aligned with the interests of their children.
Instead, we in the United States have increasingly devolved authority to the federal government. Virtually all of the agencies have been hijacked — as we’ve now been learning — by a Left-wing bureaucratic mess designed to be a permanent pipeline of cash to the friends of the Democrats.
This is particularly true of the Department of Education. In fiscal year 2024, the Department of Education spent $268 billion. That is a lot of money. And since 1980, the…
