COUNTERPOINT: Neither glee nor gloom in ending the Education Department

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COUNTERPOINT: Neither glee nor gloom in ending the Education Department

NEAL MCCLUSKEY InsideSources.com (TNS)
Sep 24, 2024
Sep 24, 2024

The presidential election has brought back a topic that always seems to need more momentum to succeed, but always has enough support to stick around: ending the Department of Education. Why has it stayed in political purgatory? While there are good reasons to end the department, there is no huge benefit if the programs it administers remain.

Unfortunately, we cannot discuss eliminating the department (typically shortened to “ED��) because the suggestion elicits claims of doom, as if ED were the nation’s primary educator. In other words, kill the department, and you threaten education itself.

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Neal McCluskey directs the Cato Institute’s Center for Educational Freedom. He wrote this for .

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