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Austin’s Daily Commentary – The End of the Department of Education

Author Austin Rhodes
WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 06: The U.S. Department of Education headquarters is seen on March 06, 2025 in Washington, DC. U.S. President Donald Trump promised during his campaign for the White House to abolish the Education Department. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Austin talks about the beginning of the end of the Department of Education and how people are responding.

Austin: It’s the promise, the pledge that’s been made by every Republican president since Ronald Reagan, and sadly, none have come through except this guy, Donald Trump. Holy cow. We’re just, perhaps, just hours away from the end the beginning of the end, officially, of the education department. The Department of Education is a cabinet position as a federal bureaucracy. Now people are panicking.

They’re they’re throwing themselves out of windows. There’s the gnashing of teeth and the clutching of pearls going on. Oh my goodness. What in the world are we going to do? How in the world can the federal government be out of the education business?

Oh, they can do it very easily. Decentralizing control and getting out of the business of bossing 50 states and all the education bureaucracies that go with them, on the process of educating children. It is as simple as handling it yourself, putting the money back in the hands of the states, and allowing them to, again, serve without bureaucratic oversight and instruction from the federal government. It’s an awesome concept.

Again, it’s something that conservatives have been embracing and seeking for a long, long time, and God bless Donald Trump for having the audacity, for having the tenacity, for having the absolute guts to do what he’s doing.

It’s not over with yet. Still a lot of dots, the i’s to dot and t’s to cross, no doubt, but the end is near, and the federal nightmare that is that the Department of Education is closer to being abolished than it ever has been since it was brought to life by Jimmy Carter. God bless him. Well-meaning, but incredibly poorly executed. The end of education as far as the federal government goes, the bureaucracy could be today.

And that’s the comment. I’m Austin Rhodes. 95.1 FM News Talk, WGAC.

Austin's Daily Commentary

“Cody” Blaine Jackson is one half of the Kicks Wake Up Krew on Kicks 99, and also serves as the Digital Program Director for Beasley Media Group in Augusta. She’s a Georgia native but currently resides just across the river in South Carolina. She started in the radio industry as a part-time board operator, and moved up through various roles, including on-air positions and program director for multiple stations. Her passions include fitness and anything to do with animals, as she has two fur babies, her dogs Harley and Waylon. Cody likes to write about pets, fitness and Augusta local events.

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