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Shut down the Department of Education.

President Trump's executive order from last week titled,

Improving Education Outcomes by Empowering Parents, States, and Communities communities could help bring about a major step toward

restoring constitutional government and improving education. The executive order directs that the

Secretary of Education, to the maximum extent appropriate and permitted by law,

take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Department of Education

and return authority over education to the states and local communities.

This action is directed to be taken, though, while ensuring the effective and uninterrupted

delivery of services programs and benefits on which Americans rely.

The order points out that the Department of Education was created in 1979.

Thus, the American people somehow managed for a long time to educate children without a federal

department of education. They could certainly do so again.

The federal government introduced significant funding to local schools in the

1950s. Some of this early funding was targeted at science education and was a response to the

Soviet Union's launch of the Spotnick satellite. The first major legislation providing funding for

and imposing regulations on local government schools became law in 1965. The Department

of Education has been given nearly 50 years to work on improving education.

Yet instead of the Department of Education ushering in an education golden era,

education in America has declined.

According to the most recent national assessment of educational progress,

approximately 70% of eighth graders are below proficiency in reading,

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