Why abolish the department of education

Inconsistencies with law and enforcement with regards to the constitution undermine everything it stands for. Instead of investing in another redundant government bureaucracy, this money could be dedicated to more useful endeavors such as health care or fixing our crumbling infrastructure.

This money could certainly be used to help the near-crisis level threat of student loans. While the Department of Education certainly does provide some funding for public schools, they only do so when harmful policies are adopted.

The crudely veiled blackmail of this department will be assimilated into more useful facets of the government. It may seem that getting rid of the Department of Education at this point would be too costly.

Despite its current entrenchment in the public school system, reverting now would restore power back to the states and allow them to educate freely according to their needs and desires. This would lose them of the debilitating policies which stifle student academic achievement and hinder those who show great potential. By abolishing the Department of Education, we may once again see the best and brightest of us prosper once more.

We should abolish the Department of Education. April 30, April 30, Feature. The Office for Civil Rights has become the most controversial part of Department of Education in the last eight years. The office monitors K schools and colleges for discrimination based on sex, race, national origin, disability, and age, and the Obama administration recently expanded that to sexual and gender identity as well.

The department initiates investigations into schools that, for instance, have not done enough to ensure a safe environment for these minorities and can impose financial penalties and withhold federal funding.

While few would argue against this role, conservatives allege that the Obama administration has used OCR as a tool to advance a culture war agenda, for instance, mandating schools to allow students to use bathrooms that conform to their gender identity.

Many advocates are now concerned that Congress and Trump could defund and defang this office. That agency enforces many of the same statutes as the one in the Department of Education. As for everything else, a handful of smaller programs varying in size from less than a million dollars to a couple billion could be consolidated, moved around, or eliminated.

As just one example, various federal pet-projects in K could be consolidated to round out the academic enrichment block grant. Most presidents toy with the idea of consolidating parts of the federal bureaucracy, but eventually abandon the idea because the political cost is too high for agencies the president can simply ignore or marginalize.

Thus, most Republican presidents would quickly abandon the idea as a worthless political slog. So it is highly unlikely that the Department of Education will go away.

Of course I do—at least in a free society. If you, gentle customer, do not want to abide by that, take your business elsewhere. The same applies to every institution, including those of higher learning. DeVos, well-intentioned as she may have been, was imposing a one-size-fits-all rule on some 4, colleges and universities in the nation. We got along without the Department of Education before and we can do so again.

The value of a college education will not disappear if the federal government takes a hands-off approach. With the Department of Education in place, Obama-era guidelines will return when the Democrats next occupy the White House.

Without the Department, universities will be able to compete with one another based on their standards for misconduct and justice as well as on the basis of the more traditional educational issues.

All institutions of higher learning were now allowed to adopt whichever policy they desired in this regard. Which would pass the market test? Undoubtedly, DeVos would win, hands down. Other things equal, many parents would be unlikely to send their male children to an Obama University; instead, they would select a DeVos College.

This difference might tip the balance and lead in the direction of all-female student bodies for those which employed the Obama rules.

But many customers prefer co-education. This effect would mitigate in favor of DeVos rules.