How Do You Shut Down the Department of Education? | Lindsey Burke

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4.6 • 808 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

At the direction of President Trump, Education Secretary Linda McMahon is now preparing the Department of Education for what she refers to as its “final mission”: winding down the department itself. This will be a complicated process, but here to explain what it may look like is Lindsey Burke, Director of the Center for Education Policy here at the Heritage Foundation.

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0:00.0	Three, two, one, zero, all engine running.
0:06.7	There is no other institution that has the ability uniquely.
0:11.3	Without a heritage, every generation starts over.
0:14.3	Ask not.
0:15.3	To remind the current regime.
0:17.5	We, the people, tell the governor what it is allowed to do.
0:22.2	All
0:22.8	all have to get back in their
0:26.7	box and stay there.
0:28.0	Lift-off.
0:28.9	We have a left-down.
0:31.8	From the Heritage Foundation,
0:34.0	this is Heritage
0:35.0	Explains.
0:42.3	The This is Heritage Explains. The bottom line is because it's not working.
0:47.1	This is the voice of Linda McMahon, recently confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the Secretary of Education.
0:55.2	In this clip, the organization she's referring to as, quote, not working is the Department
1:00.6	of Education.
1:02.6	It might be confusing to hear a cabinet secretary doubt the efficacy of the department they oversee,
1:08.0	but Secretary McMahon has her reasons. Take a listen.
1:12.3	Department of Education was set up in 1980, and since that time we have spent almost a trillion
1:18.8	dollars, and we have watched our performance scores continue to go down. I do believe that it is
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