Former President Donald Trump, should he win re-election, plans to dismantle the Department of Education. Isn’t that a radical plan? Well, actually, no, it isn’t. The idea that the federal government should control education would have been considered strange for the majority of the nation’s history. It wasn’t until 1979 that Jimmy Carter created the modern DOE, and Republicans have been trying to abolish it ever since. Can Donald Trump succeed where so many others have failed? And what, in its very expensive 44 years of existence, has the Department of Education accomplished?
Department of Education in the Crosshairs
Trump brought up eliminating the Department of Education in his interview with Elon Musk on X: “What I’m going to do, one of the first acts – and this is where I need an Elon Musk; I need somebody that has a lot of strength…
