Education cannot be nor should it be “one size fits all”. Some students learn best on one environment while others may benefit from another. Likewise some teachers teach best according to one system while others may be more effective under another. Federal bureaucrats in Washington are not the best adjudicators of the educational process for millions of students across an entire continent, nor do they have the Constitutional authority to be so. The enumerated powers in the Constitution do not bestow any authority over the education of the children of the United States and thus the Department of Education is a violation of the Tenth Amendment.

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Budgets around $70 billion have been routinely requested in recent years for a department with no proven track record of effectiveness, as well as no Constitutional grounds to even exist.

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Efforts to expand the availability of a college education to more Americans have been disastrous. A larger percentage of the population now has a college degree but it is carrying far less weight. The practice of intentionally increasing college attendance through grants and incentives has backfired by devaluing the college degree simply because now more people have one. It is yet another example of the well-intended efforts of government causing a decrease in the standard of living of the people, as the youth end up working harder and sacrificing more in exchange for less.