Posted on 03/20/2025 6:07:08 PM PDT by BenghaziMemoriam
President Donald Trump angered much of America’s education establishment Thursday when he signed an executive order to begin the dismantling of the Department of Education “as quickly as possible.”
Predictably, ahead of the signing, teachers unions issued dire warnings about how this would imperil students. Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, arguably the nation’s most influential teachers’ union, called Trump’s anticipated plans an “attack” on education that would cause “chaos.”
In fact, if the department were to vanish, American parents would be surprised at how little things would change. It would merely return power closer to the people who should be in charge of education: families and educators.
In the U.S., education has always been a state, local and family responsibility. Few people throughout our history would have imagined putting an often distant federal government in charge, and the Constitution gives it no power over education. Thus, eliminating the department, and possibly moving some of its core functions to other executive offices, would hardly cause “chaos.”
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Cato writing for US news surprise.
I’m sick of their “You had better teach kids about how to be a fayg or we will withhold your funding.”
If we eliminated the middleman and kept the funds local, there would be more money available for schools to use. And clearly better decisions would be made about how pupils are taught, since they would be made in closer proximity to the actual students.
I do not find that to be true at all. Ask those poor parents in Fairfax, VA, eg.
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