The Department of Education (DOE) is part of the late President Jimmy Carter’s legacy. Its mission is supposedly “to promote student achievement and preparation for global competitiveness by fostering educational excellence and ensuring equal access.”
Instead, the DOE’s decades-long effects have resulted in excessive student loan debt, failing schools, and, more pointedly, failing students. One education-focused publication laments this failure but still misses the point, concluding that with more money, these issues could be fixed.
The Department of Education’s 2024 Budget was in the billions. However, the agency had the unmitigated gall to request four percent more (3.1 billion) be added to that for 2025.
Overall, the fiscal year 2025 Budget requests $82.4 billion in discretionary funding for the Department of Education, including a change in…
