The Trump administration is moving forward with efforts to neuter the Department of Education. The move couldn’t come fast enough.

The Washington Post reported this week that various grant programs within the department will be moved under other Cabinet agencies. This includes the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education and the Office of Postsecondary Education, which will become part of the Labor Department. International Foreign Language Education will become part of the State Department.

It would take an act of Congress to eliminate the Education Department outright, but the White House does have leeway to downsize and reorganize its functions.

President Jimmy Carter created the department in 1979 as a sop to the teachers unions. Since then, it has done virtually nothing to impr

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