America spent $3 trillion on a federal education bureaucracy.
But only three in ten kids can read or do math.
That’s why Linda McMahon is doing what Ronald Reagan couldn’t do with education – but Democrats are trying to stop her.
The Numbers Washington, DC Doesn’t Want You to See
The Department of Education was born in 1980 under Jimmy Carter.
Ronald Reagan called it a “bureaucratic boondoggle” from day one.
He pledged to kill it.
He couldn’t.
Then George H.W. Bush came along and declared he wanted to be “the Education President.”
Spending went up.
Achievement stayed flat.
Bill Clinton expanded it.
George W. Bush gave us No Child Left Behind and threw more billions at the problem.
Hellbound and Down 