My goodness, what an example of Newspeak! Up is down, wet is dry!
The federal government has no constitutional role regarding education. The federal government should abolish their Department of Education and let the states and local governments manage education.
“We don’t want to alienate the department or risk losing our federal funding”
There is the key. give up the federal crack, I mean, funds and they have no power over anything.
On President Cruz’s second day in office, he needs to eliminate the Department of Education. Along with the Departments of Health and Human Services, Department of Energy, Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the Department of Homeland Security.
And he should take a long hard look at the Department of Labor.
No department that cannot demonstrate significant progress in the field of its purview should be funded further.