The ‘education establishment’ always resorts to fearmongering

If the U.S. Department of Education suddenly went away, what would change for local families and communities? Not much.

For starters, the Department of Education doesn’t “educate” anyone. It’s a middleman. Americans send their taxes to Washington, D.C., the bureaucracy takes a big chunk of it to pay staff and overhead, and the rest is sent to states and local communities with a bunch of red tape. Reducing that bureaucracy should save money, which means schools could actually receive more funding.

Parents are better at making decisions for their children than federal bureaucrats.

Furthermore, there’s no evidence that the federal involvement has improved education. Since the department was created in 1980, federal per-pupil spending has skyrocketed, but results on the National Assessment

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