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Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look, and an ever-changing culture through the lens of

unchanging truth.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

Over the last few years, there's been quite a reckoning in America about education, so much

so, in fact, that the next few years could bring radical changes, with more

and more parents opting out of public schools by the millions, in fact, in choosing homeschooling,

private and hybrid alternatives. Frustration with lengthy COVID closures triggered a reaction

to much bigger problems, especially things like ideological indoctrination falling test scores and administrators

and school boards who treated parents as if they had no right whatsoever to know what their

children are learning. And so changes in the air, even, it seems, for the Department of Education.

Last year, every single Republican candidate for president announced their intention

to shut down the agency, and President Trump appears ready to fulfill the promise. And rightly so.

On paper, public education is run by the states and the counties, but since President Jimmy Carter

created the Department of Education in 1979, the federal government has played an increasingly intrusive and expensive and outsized role.

Today, in fact, the DOE spends more than $18,000 per student per year.

That doesn't even count state and county expenditures.

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