Kill the U.S. Dept. of Education.
It's not even remotely related to anything in the Constitution. It never educated anyone. Education is supposed to be local ,and at the very most, state. The founding fathers never, never would have gone for it.
But you know what?
It'll never happen. We're only going to add MORE branches of government. Government is like a ratchet: it only moves in one direction. Up. The only way it shrinks is when it explodes.
I would actually have no problem with that, William.
As currently practiced, the Federal intervention in education is worse than useless, it's making things worse. two words: UNFUNDED MANDATES
It probably wouldn't surprise you to know, however, that were editec in charge of education, I'd FEDERALIZE the whole thing.
By that I mean I would have the Federal government PAY for it all, and I would insure that every kid in the USA had access to the same course and educational opportunites no matter where they lived.
I would remove the burden of paying for education off the backs of property owners and pay for education out of the Federal coffers.
That would give every homeowner and business in America a huge LOCAL tax break, and probably result in an increase in FICA taxes (assuming we did nothing else to limit federal spending)
I'd also make education free right up to the first PhD for anyone who (by testing) qualified to go on. I'd also put a LOT more money into worker retraining and technical schools.
Our educational system is still run as though we lived in the 18th century.
That is one of the reasons that our kids overall are less well edcuated than in nations which have different (usually fully nationalized) education systems.
Now as an educator, I'd benefit more from a completely privatized educational system, like the Libertarians want.
But in the aggregate, I think that system would be disasterous for this nation.
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