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How to downsize/eliminate/change the Dept. of Education

Let me put my bias right here up front.

I think the creation of the Dept. of Education was a HUGE mistake, as it has usurped the individual states’ authority and responsibility for determining how to address education funding and requirements in that state.

Furthermore, many schools have had to ADD additional administrative staff - often the most highly paid in the system - to satisfy the federal governments directives. That’s money that does NOT go to classrooms. That’s people whose sole purpose is to work to implement the federal government’s agenda, paid for by the citizens of the state.

I hate to tell you of the MANY times, as a teacher, that I was forced to attend a mind-numbing lecture on topics that had NO RELATION to my needs as a teacher, nor to any benefit of the students, all to satisfy the power-hungry representative of the Dept. of Education’s directives, and justify their inflated salary.

So, yeah, I’m somewhat biased AGAINST the Department’s continued existence.

This link looks at what dismantling the Department might look like, and how the programs - most specifically the funds to assist students in attending college or trade school after high school - might be handled. There is a reasonable argument that both efficiency and effectiveness might considerably improve, should Treasury take it over.