Public schools are failing the next generation of Americans. And at the same time, taxpayers are POURING BILLIONS into a national, unelected, and unhelpful federal department that is just making the problems worse.

However, President Trump does not have the authority to completely dissolve the Department of Education (DOE). Because this is a department created and funded by Congress, only Congress has the authority to end the DOE.  

A bill in Congress will terminate the DOE on the last day of 2026, and we need to hold them accountable to move HR 899 forward. As someone who has extensive experience in education, including being Dean of a law school, I can attest it is time to end the DOE — a federal department that was created by Jimmy Carter to increase votes from the teachers’ unions.

The DOE has become a bloated bureaucracy that (1) increases the cost of education, (2) pushes radical ideology, and (3) decreases the quality of education. Let’s Make Education Great Again!

Our schools would be significantly better off WITHOUT THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. Urge Congress to do end this Jimmy Carter bureaucracy before future generations are completely lost.

With over 4,000 employees, the average DOE salary is more than 144,000 dollars per year.

The most important thing we can do to protect the future of our children is to change the education model. The current model is broken. Our schools are setting up the next generation to fail.

The DOE is hurting education. An international group tested 15-year-olds in 2022, found the United States “did much worse in math, ranking 34th. The U.S. scored 465 in math, below the OECD average of 472 and well below the scores of the top five, all of which were in Asia,” according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (emphasis added).

But that’s not all. . .

The official DOGE Savings website says the first grant it reviewed from the DOE on Feb. 7, out of 9.5 million dollars, it found 8.5 million dollars of savings. In fact, the DOE is the second most wasteful department that DOGE has found to date!

Right now, the DOE is receiving more than 102 BILLION dollars from taxpayers. If this same ratio of waste is throughout the DOE, that could be a savings of 92 BILLION dollars to the American people without harming local educational efforts. But it is not just waste. The real problem is the policies and accreditation scam under the DOE.

I frequently hear from parents that their children are not safe to use bathrooms in public schools, so they are limiting their water intake and trying to “hold it” until they get home. Not only must the DOE be abolished, but parents must be given school choice. Stop the monopoly of government schools!

It is time to end this lunacy and save billions of our tax dollars that are harming the next generation! Urge Congress to act NOW and support HR 899.

+ + Education, for a change . . .

Giving control back to the state and local levels, and especially to parents, will improve education.  

Instead of teaching math, our taxpayer dollars are funding:  

• 4.6 million dollars “to coordinate zoom and in-person meetings.”  

• 3 million “to write a report that showed that prior reports were not utilized by schools.”  

• 1.4 million “to physically observe mailing and clerical operations.”  

And the DOE was paying around 400 million dollars to Columbia University, even after it failed to protect the physical safety of Jewish students from violent antisemitism.  

+ + Tell Congress to not believe the lies . . .

We are hearing from Republicans in Congress who are starting to push back against the idea of dissolving the DOE because they are afraid of being labeled as “anti-education.”

By restoring local control and cutting out middle management, we are making funding more efficient, empowering local decision-makers, all while giving parents a stronger voice.   

Previously, Republicans approved a policy platform calling on Congress to shut down the DOE, yet now, when they have the power to actually do it, some members are faltering.

One of the weak arguments that the DOE should not be shut down is that the DOE authorizes private accrediting agencies. But this is a red herring. As a former law school dean who led a law school through all levels of accreditation, I can state clearly that accreditation does not improve education. Rather, it makes education more expensive.

Urge Congress to slash this outrageous and nonessential spending.

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“284 Salaries at US Department of Education Shared by Employees.” Glassdoor. Accessed March 19, 2025. Glassdoor.com/Salary/US-Department-of-Education-Salaries-E41297.htm.

Amadeo, Kimberly. “U.S. Education Rankings Compared to Other Countries.” The Balance, July 10, 2024. Thebalancemoney.com/the-u-s-is-losing-its-competitive-advantage-3306225.

DOGE NEWS- Department of Government Efficiency (@realdogeusa). “The average salary at the Department of Education.” X, March 17, 2025, 8:31 p.m. X.com/realdogeusa/status/1901793568680825310.  

Fabina, Jacob, Erik L. Hernandez, and Kevin McElrath. “School Enrollment in the United States: 2021.” American Community Survey Reports. U.S. Census Bureau, June 2023. Census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2023/acs/acs-55.pdf.

R-KY-4, Thomas. 2025. “H.R.899 - 119th Congress (2025-2026): To Terminate the Department of Education.” Congress.gov. 2025. Congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/899.

U.S. Department of Education (@usedgov). “Instead of improving outcomes for students, here’s where taxpayer dollars were going.” X, February 12, 2025, 5:16 p.m. X.com/usedgov/status/1889800714336993415.