Well, Trump has essentially notified about half the Department of Education that they don't work here anymore.

And his appointment to be education secretary, Linda McMahon, is pretty much being charged with getting rid of the Department of Education.

Now, unlike what some people will suggest that this is crazy or radical. This has actually been something that Republicans

have talked about ever since the 80s because the bottom line is the Department of Education

has only been around since 1979. And yet it has done an excellent job of convincing a lot of

Americans that somehow we never had education before the Department of Education. And if we get

rid of the Department of Education, nobody will learn how to read or write

or become trans anymore.

And that third one is actually probably true.

But today, what we're going to do is we're going to look at not only what Trump has actually

been doing with respect to the Department of Education, we're also going to take a look at what

the history, what the record of the Department of Education

is. And we're going to start to imagine what education could look like in this country,

not just if the federal government wasn't as involved as they currently are, but we're actually

going to address something else. And that is all the people saying, yes, thank God, the federal

government is out because this

is a state and local issue.

I don't think it is.

And we're going to discuss what it could be if we just rethought education rather than go

along with the model that has been kind of the, I don't know, the status quo for decades

now in the United States.

All of that and more coming up on this episode of Making the Argument.

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