Another Good Reason to Abolish Dept. of Education

Creating the Department of Education in 1979 was certainly one of the worst blunders the nation made in that whole blunder-filled decade. Having neither a constitutional warrant nor any rationale except to reward the teachers’ unions for backing Jimmy Carter, the Department barely made it through Congress. (Even the New York Times thought it a bad idea, as Richard Vedder notes in this Pope Center article in which he explores the damage this agency has done.)

Since then, we have wasted billions on the Department but educational results are worse than ever. And now it’s evident that the bureaucrats have gone rogue, instituting regulations they have no authority to institute and violating the Administrative Procedure Act.