February 26, 2025
Can Trump Do What Reagan Couldn’t, and End the Department of Education Con Job?
By William Sullivan
Speaking from the Oval Office, President Trump was asked how soon he wanted the Department of Education to be closed.
He responded:
Oh, I’d like it to be closed immediately. Look at the Department of Education. It’s a big con job. They ranked the top countries in the world. We’re ranked 40, but we’re ranked No. 1 in one department: cost per pupil. So we spend more per pupil than any other country in the world, but we’re ranked No. 40… if we’re ranked No. 40, that means something is seriously wrong.
There are two important points being made in this statement.
The first is the simpler one, and it is that the education Department is costly and hasn’t produced positive results.
And he’s certainly not wrong.
Consider that, since 1980, $3.6 trillion were confiscated from American taxpayers and deployed by the agency, and the outcome is that roughly 30% of American eighth graders can read at grade level. Only 26% of American high school students are proficient at mathematics.
But many of us have known for a long time that the education Department is an expensive failure. The second, more important point that Trump is making, is that it has always been a Democrat con job.
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https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/02/can_trump_do_what_reagan_couldn_t_and_end_the_department_of_education_con_job.html
