Newt looks like he’s heading for Secretary of Education and I don’t think that’s such a bad Idea.
The DOE should be limited to promotion of the Arts and Sciences only .... Just like the constitution says is the Federal Government duty.
The Constitution says: "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."
In other words, to make establish laws furthering copyright and patent rights.
It says nothing about the government having any other role in promoting science and arts.
Federal involvement in education at any level is inappropriate, and was an idea established only for the purpose of advancing the Progressive agenda.
Government control of, or even influence on, education is a primary tool of establishing and preserving tyranny.
Free people make art and advance science. Market forces determine what survives.
The DOE must be abolished. Whether or not we need a secretary of eduction to implement and oversee that abolition, given the current extent of government involvement, is arguable.
Ultimately, the primary objective of a secretary of education ought to be to eliminate that job.