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Why the Department of Education Must Be Abolished
By Carole Hornsby Haynes March 17, 2025
As President Trump promised, the dismantling of the Department of Education has begun. The workforce has been cut in half: from around 4,133 workers when Trump took office in January to about 2183 as a part of its “final mission.”
National Education Association President Becky Pringle is “spitting mad mad about this!” During her melt down she wailed that Trump and Musk are taking a wrecking ball to public schools and the future of 50 million students “to pay for tax handouts for billionaires."
As if the U.S. Department of Education (USDE) is not already swamped with leftist ideologues, another soon will likely be added to the very department that President Trump has vowed to dismantle and to remove woke ideologies from America's classrooms. 
Our colonial ancestors were the most literate in the world. By 2023, American students ranked at a near 30-year-low compared with students from other developed nations on international tests. That, despite the U.S. spending more per pupil than most other countries in the world.