Get ready to rumble if Trump tries to eliminate the Dept. of Education

Eliminating the Department of Education has been a Republican dream since President Ronald Reagan expressed the same wish nearly a half-century ago, shortly after it was established under President Jimmy Carter.

But even Reagan, who labeled the department a “bureaucratic boondoggle,” had to back down when he realized there was not enough support in Congress for “abolishing” the department, even among Republicans. President-elect Donald Trump, who has pledged repeatedly to shut the department down...