The left and the media have come unglued over Trump’s effort to shut down most or all of the US Department of Education.

It was Jimmy Carter who created the agency in 1979 as a wet kiss to the teacher unions.  Since then, well over $1 trillion has been spent and the result has been flat or declining school performance.

To be fair, most of the huge increase in spending in recent years has been in the disastrous federal student loan program. But K-12 spending has also gone up dramatically with little to show for it:

Catholic schools spend a fraction of what public schools spend with much better results.

We like Trump’s ideas of sending the money straight to the states. Or better yet, to low income parents. Get rid of the education middleman blob in Washington.