From The Hill:
GOP lawmaker proposes abolishing Department of Education
On the same day the Senate confirmed President Trump’s secretary of Education pick by a historically narrow margin, a House Republican introduced legislation to abolish the entire department Betsy DeVos will lead.
Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie’s bill is only a page long, after merely stating the Department of Education would terminate on Dec. 31, 2018.
Massie believes that policymakers at the state and local levels should be responsible for education policy, instead of a federal agency that’s been in place since 1980.
"Unelected bureaucrats in Washington, D.C. should not be in charge of our children's intellectual and moral development. States and local communities are best positioned to shape curricula that meet the needs of their students,” Massie said in a statement.
Absolutely - public education is not mentioned in the Constitution and the Tenth Amendment puts it as being the responsibility of the individual State. This is the way that we were supposed to operate with each state trying out their ideas and if they worked well, other states could implement them. The unelected bureaucrats in Washington have no accountability for their decisions or actions.
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