President Trump has made it known that he wishes to shut down the Department of Education. He wants to eliminate the bureaucracy and turn education over to the states, the way it legally should be. This month, news reports broke that the workings of an executive order are under way to begin the process, but the radical left has vowed to fight to the end to preserve the federal education monopoly.
Is the elimination of this department a step in the right direction, or will it bring about even more calamity (or possibly education collapse) by dispersing the department’s responsibilities across the federal bureaucracy?
Such questions are answered as educational researcher Alex Newman looks at the history of the Department of Education going back to President Jimmy Carter, the establishment of the religion of secular humanist education beginning with people like Robert Owen, Horace Mann, and John Dewey; there’s discussion about Department of Education Secretary Linda McMahon, parental rights, home schooling, and more.
