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The Department of Education's $238 Billion Grip on American Classrooms Was Never Constitutional

The Department of Education's $238 Billion Grip on American Classrooms Was Never Constitutional

The federal Department of Education commands a $238 billion annual budget and exercises regulatory authority over virtually every public school in the United States — despite the fact that education does not appear in the Constitution and the Tenth Amendment explicitly reserves unenumerated powers to the states. What began in 1979 as a cabinet-level bureaucracy justified by Cold War anxieties has metastasized into a de facto national curriculum office, and the push to eliminate it is not a radic

An Electorate That Doesn't Know Its Rights Cannot Defend Them: The Civics Crisis Is No Accident

An Electorate That Doesn't Know Its Rights Cannot Defend Them: The Civics Crisis Is No Accident

Survey after survey reveals that a stunning proportion of American adults cannot name the three branches of government, identify their First Amendment rights, or explain how a bill becomes law. This is not a failure of intelligence — it is the predictable outcome of an education system that stopped teaching self-governance. And for those who benefit from an uninformed electorate, that outcome is a feature, not a bug.