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The Department of Education should be abolished, and all federal education laws should go with it.

What we've seen over the last 30 years is a slow usurping of local control over education. Many of the things that used to be decided by districts is now decided by politicians in state capitals or in Washington. But we all know that a bunch of people who have never worked in a real job and send their children to private schools know everything about how to educate our children.

My point: Where do you think "standards and metrics" are going to come from? They will be politically motivated. They will never make it past the NEA.