Eliminating the Federal DOE: Strange Bedfellows
As a follow-up to my blog piece, “Left-Libertarianism and a Broader Political Spectrum”, I’m seeing an interesting common ground of sorts emerging between some more libertarian thinkers on both the right and the left sides of that political paradigm in regards to educational policy. As an example, you have both a (right) libertarian like Ron Paul and a progressive educational group like The Forum for Education and Democracy calling for an end to the Federal Department of Education. (Of course Paul’s newly elected Senator son Rand throws a bone to his more homophobic right-wing supporters by arguing for elimination of DOE to prevent lesbian parenting from being promoted in schools.)
In his blog piece “After the Dust Clears” for The Forum for Education and Democracy, George Wood’s puts forward an argument from more of that left-libertarian point of view for a bipartisan effort to eliminate the Department of Education.
First, the current structure of a national Department of Education gives it inordinate control over