‘My Life’s Work’: Heritage Foundation Chief Urges Abolishing Federal Education Department
14th June 2024
The Department of Education has never educated one person. Not one. Ever.
Roberts, himself a former K-12 and college educator, made the case for abolishing the Cabinet-level department in an interview with podcast co-host Tim Kennedy. Roberts called that policy goal his “life’s work.”
“The Department of Education got it wrong on the first minute of its existence in 1979,” he contended, “because it is such a terrible idea to centralize or attempt to centralize education policy, education funding, [and] curriculum questions.”
The department was created near the end of the Carter administration at the behest of the teachers unions.