Trump • Freedom of Education

"Take the power away from the Department of Education, block-grant those funds, continue to invest in education, but get it down to a much more local level where better decisions are made on behalf of students," DeVos proposed. "The bureaucrats at the Department of Education aren't doing the job. They haven't done the job for more than four decades to close the achievement gaps — they've only widened."

"The bureaucrats at the Department of Education aren't doing the job. They haven't done the job for more than four decades to close the achievement gaps — they've only widened. Secondly, like I said, every opportunity to really scale back and de-power the department. It's going to take Congress' cooperation and support, but that window of opportunity is wide open, given the fact that during COVID, in the years following, the unions have overplayed their hand in every area."

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