Well, there has been a lot of discussion on the infamous Department of Education.

So today we thought it would be a good idea based off of some of our comments from our Circle

community to ask the question, what exactly is the Department of Education?

Because everyone's got this idea of what they think it does.

But I would argue very few people have actually dug into the history of the Department of Education, what it actually funds, what its budget looks like, and what sort of impact it has on education as a whole.

And so today we're going to talk about a couple of things.

One, we're going to ask, what's the history of the Department of Education?

Why does it exist?

We're going to ask the question of,

okay, this may be the reason why it was established, but has it achieved its goals, or has it made

a significantly positive impact based off of the budget it's been assigned since its existence

in 1979? And then we're going to ask the question, okay, what would education look like if we got rid of it?

Or what would education look like if there was significant reforms to it?

So we're going to ask all those questions.

Plus, the most important question at the end is, does this solve the problem?

Right.

Or does it have a significant impact on the problem?

We're going to answer that

question as well. So all of that and more coming up on this episode. Can't wait to get the

questions from the audience. As always, I am your host, Nick Fratus, member of the Virginia

House of Delegates, and I actually sit on the Education Committee here in Virginia. But other than

that, I'm a reasonably good guy with me in the studio, my beautiful bride, Tina Queen of the Bees.

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