{"id":1992307,"date":"2023-08-06T06:44:04","date_gmt":"2023-08-06T10:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-2024-hopefuls-want-to-nix-the-department-of-education\/"},"modified":"2023-08-06T06:46:31","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T10:46:31","slug":"republican-2024-hopefuls-want-to-nix-the-department-of-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-2024-hopefuls-want-to-nix-the-department-of-education\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP 2024 contenders seek to abolish Education Department."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frepublican-2024-hopefuls-want-to-nix-the-department-of-education%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1992307&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Abolishing the Department of Education: A Hot Topic Among 2024 Republican Presidential Candidates<\/h2>\n<p>Abolishing the Department\u2062 of\u200d Education \u200bis emerging as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/surge-in-fentanyl-seizures-show-cartels-taking-advantage-of-lax-border-policies-dhs-officials-say\/\" title=\"Surge in Fentanyl Seizures Show Cartels Taking Advantage of Lax Border Policies, DHS Officials Say\">favorite talking point<\/a>\u2063 among the 2024 \u200dRepublican presidential candidates who say they would rein in a runaway federal bureaucracy if elected.<\/p>\n<p>The agency, which was established in 1980,\u2063 has long been a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nyt-reports-on-bombshell-evidence-of-biden-influence-peddling-scheme-by-denying-it-exists\/\" title=\"NYT denies existence of bombshell evidence of Biden's influence-peddling scheme.\">favorite punching bag<\/a> of Republicans, with President Ronald Reagan among the first Republican \u200dstandard-bearers to declare the department unnecessary and call for its elimination.<\/p>\n<h3>Biden and Republicans Duke It Out to Define the Economy<\/h3>\n<p>Former Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, who led the department during the\u200d Trump administration, told the Washington Examiner in an \u2062interview that eliminating \u200dthe department has been a favorite talking point of conservatives for decades, but the discussion today has shifted due to the emergence of the parental rights \u2062movement.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The \u200dtalk about it today is really founded \u2063more in a desire to empower \u200cparents and families,&#8221; DeVos said. &#8220;Many have\u200c realized in what ways the\u2062 department \u200cstands in the way of \u200bthat empowerment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A number of the Republican presidential hopefuls have made abolishing or limiting the\u2064 department a central theme \u2064of their\u2063 campaign. Former President Donald Trump previously unveiled plans to eliminate the department during his term in office, while Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, and former\u2064 Vice President Mike Pence have all singled out the department \u200dfor\u200c elimination.<\/p>\n<p>DeVos, who has called for\u200c shutting down the department herself, said that \u2062the agency&#8217;s creation during the presidency of Jimmy Carter was a &#8220;payoff&#8221; to the\u2062 teachers \u200cunions that supported Carter&#8217;s campaign\u2064 in 1976.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;It is totally \u200cbeholden to political organizations through the teachers unions,&#8221; DeVos \u2064said. &#8220;The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/better-than-expected-u-s-economy-added-638000-jobs-in-october-unemployment-dropped-to-6-9\/\" title=\"Better Than Expected: U.S. Economy Added 638,000 Jobs in October, Unemployment Dropped to 6.9%\">federal government<\/a> only funds less than 10% of education overall, \u200byet the political blanket that they have \u200cover everything is undeniable, and it influences decisions down to the\u200d most local level.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Washington Examiner \u200dreached out to the Trump, DeSantis, Pence, and \u2064Ramaswamy campaigns, as\u200d well as those of former U.N. \u200cAmbassador Nikki Haley, Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie about their positions on \u200cabolishing the department.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump, Pence, and Christie campaigns did not respond to the requests.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a spokesman for the DeSantis campaign \u200cpointed to a June\u2062 28 \u2062interview on Fox News where the governor vowed to eliminate \u2064the Education, Commerce, and Energy\u2064 departments, along with the IRS, if he had the support in\u2062 Congress.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;What I\u2019m also going to do &#8230; is be prepared\u200d if Congress won\u2019t go that far,&#8221;\u200d DeSantis said.\u2063 &#8220;I\u2019m going to use those\u200b agencies to push back \u200dagainst\u200d woke ideology and against the leftism \u2064that we see creeping\u200c into all institutions of American life. So for example, with the Department of\u2062 Education: we reverse all the transgender sports stuff. Women&#8217;s sports should be protected. We reverse policies trying to inject \u200b [agendas into] the curriculum \u200din our schools. That\u2064 will all be gone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The campaign of Tim Scott shared \u200ca quote from a recent interview where the senator did not \u2063directly \u2063say if he would abolish the department,\u2063 but said he would &#8220;starve&#8221; the department of funding beyond\u2064 the 10% \u200cit provides to education institutions.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;We only provide 10% of the \u2062education dollars from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/reports-red-flag-laws-result-in-66-firearm-confiscations\/\" title=\"Reports: Red flag laws result in 66 firearm confiscations\">federal level<\/a>,&#8221; \u200cthe senator said. &#8220;I would starve\u200d the rest of the\u200b Department of Education and make sure that the states get\u200d to keep more of their \u200bmoney, to \u200cmake more of their decisions that&#8217;s \u2062in the best interest of the kid. \u200dAnd it\u2063 gives the parents a choice. When parents have a choice, the kid has a chance. That is not a political issue. That is an issue of surviving in the greatest country \u2062on Earth. And if you get a good education, you don&#8217;t survive. You thrive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Haley, who served as governor of South Carolina \u2063before her appointment to the U.N. ambassadorship, also\u200c declined to commit \u2062to the department&#8217;s elimination in a recent interview, but said she would &#8220;would send a team into every \u2063single agency and tell them to cut regulations, cut bureaucracy, take out any people that are problems.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ramaswamy has gone further than simply\u200d calling for the\u200b department&#8217;s elimination. The \u200bpolitical newcomer \u200bfeatures a comprehensive plan on his website to roll the functions of the department \u200dinto other agencies, namely \u2063the Labor, State, and Treasury departments.<\/p>\n<p>Ramaswamy told the Washington Examiner\u200c the increased spending on education has\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-2024-hopefuls-want-to-nix-the-department-of-education\/\" title=\"GOP 2024 contenders seek to abolish Education Department.\">yielded worsening student achievement rates<\/a>, and said the money\u2064 spent would be better used if\u200c given to parents directly.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Parents who move their\u2064 kids to schools spending\u2064 less money per student while achieving \u2063better outcomes ought to be able to keep half the money,&#8221; the candidate said. &#8220;A student\u2064 at\u2063 a failing school in\u2064 NYC that\u200d receives $40k\u2063 per\u200b student, who transfers to a school 15 miles away that\u2063 receives $20k per student, gets to keep half the difference,\u200c $10k. Do the math. The Left calls math &#8216;racist.&#8217; I call it a $250k-plus graduation gift for kids. You pick which one is better.\u2064 I will shut down the Department of Education, without apology, there are much better uses \u200dfor\u2063 that money: put that money back into parents\u2019 pockets where it belongs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>For DeVos, she sees a challenge ahead for the candidates as they attempt to sell voters on the prospect of eliminating a department. The goal, she said, is to\u200b explain how the department is an &#8220;obstacle&#8221; to \u200b&#8221;empowering students and families\u2063 and teachers at \u200dthe most local level.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>CLICK HERE TO\u200c READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/p>\n<p>The former secretary declined to single out \u200cany candidate&#8217;s messaging on the issue as particularly \u2062compelling, noting that they are &#8220;all finding their voice on it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I think the emphasis needs \u2063to be on empowering students, teachers, families, and\u200d states,&#8221; she said. &#8220;We [shouldn&#8217;t] be for [anything] \u200cstanding in\u200d the way of ensuring that every single student can achieve their full potential. The department, by definition and by\u2063 practice, stands in the way of\u200c that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2024 Republican presidential candidates are favoring the idea of abolishing the Department of Education to curb the excessive federal bureaucracy. 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