What the GOP majority congress should do is get the Fed the ‘H’ out of education as it’s not their Constitutional business to be directing the States on anything much less making the education of our children a political matter, which is precisely what they are doing.
Get rid of the Department of Education along with a whole bunch of other departments under the Executive Branch control, and let America work as intended.
I agree but having worked with a State department of education i got to point out that the key to that goal is money.
The Federal and indeed in many cases the State Department of educations only control is the various Federal Grants and spending programs like title 1 and “carl d perkins” conditioning and/or giving out billions of federal tax dollars . their power and influence would be negnable, and thus the department would be abolish-able.
There are thus 2 ways to kill the Department of education.
1: abolish all federal funding.
2: Abolish all strings for federal funding either thou clear lack of enforcement or strait apportionment.
I suspect eyther one could lead to the other in short enough time.
The good news is Given Obama’s newly demonstrated excusive powers this might be doable with the next president and congress if the president simply promises to dumb down DOEs enforcement of grant applications to the effect that states at least get what they payed in.
This could be done as part of a populous political campaign against more generalized federal strings, following into other campaigns designed to shift the entirety of the process out of Washington all together.
Once the Grants are entirely funded and controlled by State Governments its simply a matter of knocking them off one by one.