A driver’s license works in all fifty states. Get married in Texas and you’re married in New York. Adopt a child in Florida and that child is yours in California. Yet a law-abiding citizen who passes a background check, completes the training, and earns a concealed carry permit in one state can become an instant criminal simply by driving across an invisible line on a map.
For more than forty years, returning education to the states has been a stated goal — the conviction that decisions about how children learn belong to parents, local school boards, and state legislatures, not to a sprawling federal bureaucracy in Washington that has never taught a single child to read. The Department of Education spends tens of billions of dollars a year, and after four decades, scores are flat or falling. By the one measure that matters, it has not worked.
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