Jimmy Carter ran for office promising to create a Department of Education. The only people who wanted such a thing were the teacher’s unions already destroying American education.
The Department of Ed started life with 6,400 employees and promptly began to oversee massive student loan fraud on an unprecedented scale while trying to micromanage and radicalize local education.
President Reagan promised to end the Department of Education, but he was stuck with a Democrat congress, and the media kept falsely promising that the Dept of Ed would somehow salvage public schools. It did just the opposite.
The Bush administration helped shrink the numbers somewhat which tended to remain in the 4,000 employee range.
That’s what it was when Trump first took office. The numbers increased slightly under Biden, but they’re about to drop sharply as the Trump administration has announced that it’s cutting the D of E in half. That’s math even a public school teacher could understand.
1,300 employees out of 4,100 are being laid off and another 560 accepted a resignation package of some sort. According to the announcement, that will leave 2,183 Dept of Ed employees, which is still too many, but a vast improvement over 4,100.
Killing the Department of Education had been Reagan’s dream. The D of E was Carter’s legacy. Now another part of the worst president’s legacy is being taken apart and tossed into the Potomac.
Daniel Greenfield
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
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