Don't stop there. The STATE department of education should likewise be closed. Return the control of education to local school boards. 99% of the money spent by taxpayers outside of the local school district on state and federal educrats is a complete and total waste.
One step at a time. Liberalism is a disease that starts at the Federal level. Think about the average American. They’re conservative at a core level, but liberals have been able to contravene them through national funding and control.
Even if school districts were the size of a city block or a suburban housing division, the schools would still be socialist and they would still be either godlessly secular or lukewarm and generic in their religious worldview.
Children who attend schools like this risk learning to be comfortable accepting a tuition-free socialist service provided to them by threat of police force. Well?...Why not use that force to get lots of socialist goodies?
Children who would attend these schools risk learn to think godlessly or to be lukewarm and generic in their religious belief.
Fundamentally, socialist schooling is a First Amendment and freedom of conscience abomination, not only to the children and their families but the taxpayer who is under police threat to pay for it.