Introducing “End Fed Ed Watch”

Neal McCluskey

Last March, there was considerable excitement about eliminating the US Department of Education. As well there should have been. Since the department was born in 1980, it has taken taxpayer money, burned a bunch of it in bureaucracy, and sent the remains back to states, districts, and schools with strings attached. It has had no clear, sustained, positive effect on educational outcomes, and it has long bungled running student loans. It is also unconstitutional: the Constitution...