And we are back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.

I'm Matt Kittle's senior elections correspondent at The Federalist and your experience

Sherpa on today's quest for knowledge.

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to the premium version of our website as well. Our guest today is Robert Enloe, president and

CEO of Ed Choice. It's a good time to be in the school choice movement in America.

Let's take a closer look at the opportunities and challenges ahead.

Sir, thank you so much for joining us on this edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.

Matt, thanks for joining me. I'm looking forward to the conversation.

Absolutely. We talked about hopeful times several months ago during the 2024

election cycle.

We're going to delve into those times arriving, hope turning into action.

But before we do that, I wanted to get your take on once again, President Trump,

repeating his desire to shut down the Department of Education, saying the first

task for his education secretary nominee, Linda McMahon, is to put herself out of a job.

That's a different take on big government, certainly, than we have seen in the past.

You said recently, originally established to collect and disseminate information,

the Department of Education's purpose has evolved far beyond its initial scope. I don't think

anybody could disagree with that statement. It often imposes one-size-fits-all policies

on states and enact intrusive regulations that make it harder

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