BENNETT, MOHRMAN: 2026 will give us over 1,000 ways to boost educational freedom

2026 is going to be a watershed year for education policy in the United States. It will be the year that will be known a decade and beyond as when the signature federal education policy of this era took shape. 

From the news coverage, you may assume I am writing about the elimination of the U.S. Department of Education. I am not. As the former head of that department — charged myself with its elimination — I don’t want to say bureaucratic organizational charts in D.C. and department names are meaningless.