The U.S. Department of Education is on a losing streak. College student loan 'forgiveness?' Stuck in legal limbo. Update to the federal student loan online platform? System crashed. Radical changes to Title IX of the Civil Rights Act? Courts have issued injunctions.Conservatives have argued for years that the federal education agency is unconstitutional, but the department is making its own case for closure by promulgating policies that are either ineffective or illegal . And a new U.S.
The department has also whiffed on key metrics for more than 40 years. The achievement gap between students at the highest and lowest ends of the economic scale has stayed the same for half a century. Today, reading and math scores, on average, are near historical lows. Meanwhile taxpayers spent some $200 billion at the federal level on schools during the COVID-19 pandemic, on top of the more than $60 billion they spend annually just in federal school allocations .
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