If there was one federal agency that I could dispose of, what would it be? Without ado: The Department of Education (DOE) as evidence for its abolition is overwhelming.

If accountability and achievement are truly the goals, the DOE’s monopoly must end.
The 2024 “Nation’s Report Card” — the National Assessment of Educational Progress long-term trends exam — found that the average 13-year-old student’s math scores ranked the lowest in more than three decades. The number of high school seniors who did not read a single book on their own in the last year nearly quadrupled between 1976 and 2021-2022. Moreover, only 20 percent of students nationwide read proficiently, and four out of five are struggling to meet basic educational standards.
Still not convinced?
According to two international tests: Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) and the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS), American fourth graders scored 18 points lower in 2022-2023 than in 2019, the year before the COVID closures. Fourth graders delivered the lowest science scores since the TIMSS test was first administered in 1995, while eighth graders’ scores dropped by 27 points.  In all, 26 countries scored higher than Americans in math. Sweden kept their schools open during COVID-19 and ended remote learning in 2020 and moved ten slots above the U.S.
The establishment of the DOE by President Jimmy Carter in 1979 was supposed to close the achievement gap. Instead, it has spent over $1 trillion with worse results ensuring that children stay academically, economically, and socially handicapped creating a legion of Democrats in its wake. The DOE budget for fiscal 2025 is $238 billion.
The DOE is not just a Democrat gift to teachers’ unions. It is a Democrat gift to themselves.
The Biden administration’s direction of the DOE focused on woke indoctrination, including mandating that transgender females be allowed to participate in girls’ sports.  DOE direction to schools of...