Since the first days of this administration, outrage has been building in the fake news media and their teacher union financial backers at Education Secretary Linda McMahon and President Donald Trump over the prospect of dismantling the Department of Education.
This past week, with the adoption of several quantifiable actions to make their dream a reality, liberal furor has bubbled over.
But no one seems to want to look at the facts: For 45 years, the agency has been one of the most expensive failures in the federal government.
The DOE was created in 1979 by President Jimmy Carter as a political favor to the teachers unions, and since then, the agency has consumed more than $3 trillion in taxpayer money while producing virtually nothing to show for it.
What was billed as a way to “improve education nationwide” has become a bloated bureaucracy that drains resources, lowers standards, and protects union power at the expense of students.
The numbers speak for themselves.
