What happens if Republicans really do kill the Education Department? [View all]

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While Donald Trump tapping the wildly unqualified Linda McMahon to head the Department of Education is currently the splashiest news about that particular agency, the real story is what will happen if McMahon successfully fulfills Trump’s campaign promise of shuttering the department.

While Trump voters may think the end of the department would usher in some golden era of prayer in public schools and vouchers galore, it would also wreck funding and oversight for millions of students.

Conservatives of all stripes have hated the Department of Education for decades, and getting rid of it has been a hobbyhorse for the GOP since Ronald Reagan. It’s a goal that fits neatly within the Republican fixation on states’ rights—the idea that the federal government shouldn’t be able to impose rules about education, and those decisions should instead be at the local level.

Setting aside that “states’ rights” is typically just cover for imposing racist and retrograde views on everyone, there’s the bigger issue, which is that the federal government doesn’t really set education policy.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/11/30/2288598/-What-happens-if-Republicans-really-do-kill-the-Education-Department