I am sorry but I don't want the filthy ass Federal government taking my money by force and then spending it on some stupid bureaucratic education program that produces poor education results. The Feds spent a boat load of money on these stupid programs but each year the US falls further behind in education. It is a despicable waste of money. Money and bureaucracies do not produce good education.
It is not my responsibility to pay for the education of other people when the money is decided how to be spent by Federal bureaucrats whose bosses are elected by greedy special interest groups like teacher's unions.
On a local level I don't mind some of my tax money being pooled for education providing I get some choice in how the money is spent for my children.
The Federal government does not need to be in the business of education. That is one of the reasons it has become a bloated corrupt oppressive debt ridden burden on the American people.
Dump the Department of Education and watch your world education ranking sink faster and faster into the economic oblivion which awaits your nation. The nations of Europe, Canada, and other first world countries who believe in sound federal education strategies, and education 100% of their people, thank you.
Silicon Valley is relocating offices to British Columbia, because of their reliance upon foreign-born, hi-tech workers. There aren't enough of them in the US, and they fear Trump will close off access to foreign born workers.
The rest of the world is beating your asses with clean energy while Trump tries to get the US to go back to coal. The rest of the world is not interested in hiring your home-schooled, science denying ideologically pure right wingers because they're easily lied to and have no original ideas. The ability to think has been brainwashed out of them by religious schools who deny science and teach Creationism.
Selfishly, right-wingers don't want an educated population because their taxes will go down. Bright idea. It's thinking like this which is why your nation is in decline, and will continue to slide in world opinion.