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North Carolina doesn’t need more D.C. studies — it needs fewer excuses from Raleigh. My full PJ O’Rourke-style call to swing the axe on the Department of Education: https://t.co/a8y8obsmS6
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DOGE took a flamethrower to the Education “Science” Con-Game — torching $881 million in useless bureaucratic “research” contracts at the Institute of Education Sciences.
I went full PJ O’Rourke on why the entire Department of Education is a self-licking ice-cream cone that has never educated a single child… and why it’s time to delete it and hand the keys back to parents with real school choice. Watch the full video now. Here is the complete article:
Stopping the Education “Science” Con Game
The DOGE axe was the best thing to happen to American schools since the blackboard. Remember back in February 2025, when Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency—DOGE, the governmental equivalent of a chainsaw-wielding toddler—strolled into the U.S. Department of Education and did what every red-blooded American has dreamed of doing since the Carter administration? It took a flamethrower to roughly $881 million in contracts at the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), the federal outfit literally paid to figure out why Johnny can’t read.
Eighty-nine contracts—some reports say closer to 170—gone. Poof. One contractor had been raking in $1.5 million to “observe mailing and clerical operations” at a mail center. Another $3 million for a report explaining why previous reports weren’t being read. This wasn’t research; it was the bureaucratic version of a guy getting paid to watch himself watch paint dry.
And here’s the delicious, chocolate-fudge irony that makes you want to stand up and slow-clap: IES spent decades and hundreds of millions of your money producing rigorous, peer-reviewed studies proving that the very things the education blob insists will fix everything—more spending, smaller classes, fancy new programs—don’t actually move the needle on student outcomes. Yet the agency itself ballooned into the ultimate self-licking ice-cream cone: endless peer reviews, redundant data projects, ideological grants, and enough “What Works Clearinghouse” summaries to wallpaper the National Mall. They studied failure with the precision of a Swiss watchmaker and then applied exactly zero of those lessons to their own operation. Classic government: “Do as we say, not as we do—while we do nothing at all.”
For years IES’s own data—from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), the only report card that actually matters—showed American kids treading water while per-pupil spending skyrocketed. More money? Crickets. Smaller classes? Meh. The latest shiny curriculum du jour? About as effective as teaching algebra with interpretive dance. But instead of shouting “Hey, maybe competition and parental control work better,” the bureaucracy churned out 500-page tomes that nobody read, funded more studies about studies, and handed out grants to people who already agreed with the conclusions before the first focus group. It was less “evidence-based policy” and more “policy-based evidence-gathering.” A monopoly research complex producing reports the way Congress produces debt: endlessly, expensively, and with zero accountability.
DOGE didn’t “destroy research,” as the usual suspects wailed. It exposed that most of it was overhead. The real knowledge about what works—competition, parental control, and getting bureaucrats out of the classroom—has been hiding in plain sight in charter schools, homeschool co-ops, and any state brave enough to try vouchers. Markets figured this out decades ago. Government “science” just delayed admitting it while racking up the bill.
Take North Carolina, where your faithful correspondent files this dispatch from the beautiful (and now slightly lighter on federal overhead) Tar Heel State. The SERVE Center at UNC Greensboro—just one of the regional education labs fattened on IES contracts—lost over $11 million in funding. That’s real money, real jobs, and real disruption for folks in Greensboro doing teacher training and classroom research. North Carolina took a broader $714 million hit from DOGE cuts across the board. Some local politicians are clutching pearls and suing; others are quietly breathing a sigh of relief. Here’s the truth they won’t say out loud at the next school board meeting: the state can absolutely do without a federally subsidized business wasting taxpayer dollars on reports that gather dust next to last year’s strategic plan. North Carolina’s kids don’t need more studies from D.C. They need fewer excuses from Raleigh.
Which brings us to the obvious next step: keep swinging that axe until the entire U.S. Department of Education is a smoking crater. It’s redundant, it’s wasteful, and—most importantly—it doesn’t educate a single child. Not one. Never has. Education is a state and local job, and the feds have spent nearly fifty years proving they’re about as useful at it as a screen door on a submarine. Shut it down, send the money back to the states (or, better yet, back to parents), and watch actual innovation happen.
And while we’re at it, North Carolina should go full throttle on parental choice. Universal Education Savings Accounts, open enrollment, charter expansion—the whole free-market toolkit. Let families vote with their feet. Let schools compete. Let the invisible hand do what ten thousand peer-reviewed reports never could: actually improve outcomes without requiring another study about why the last study failed.
DOGE just reminded us that the emperor’s clothes were bought with your tax dollars and didn’t even fit. The education establishment is still screaming that the sky is falling. Funny thing: the sky looks a lot bluer when you stop paying people to study why it’s falling. Time to delete the Department of Education, hand the keys to parents, and get back to the business of teaching kids instead of funding the people who study why we can’t.
Class dismissed.
@AnnCoulter @MattWalshBlog @elonmusk
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@MrAndyNgo The left is hijacking our children and turning them against us. The logical response is remove your kids from gov't schools and make damn sure they're taught *both* sides of history.
*Nothing* is more important right now.
#DefundDoE
#FundStudentsNotSchools
@realspitfire AOC, Jasmine Crockett, Ketanji Jackson, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Talib, all of an age, and clearly proof the department of education is failing our youth. #DefundDOE
@Austin__Berg When citizens engage, we win. When parents demand better education for their children, we win. When property owners demand return on their tax investment to public schools, we win.
When America says, "We do *not* co-parent with the teacher's unions, WE WIN!
#DefundDoE
The Department of Education began in 1979.
In 1978, America was ranked #1 in education.
Today, America is ranked 28th in Education.
The Department of Education is a FAILED experiment.
SHUT IT DOWN.
@DefiantLs Education does not equal intelligence. Crockett is a living example of this & clear evidence of the shocking retreat of the American education system from high standards.
#DefundDoE
They think America declared independence from Spain, Asia borders Canada, and the Pentagon is just… a square.
The Department of Education is killing brain cells faster than spring break booze.
#DefundDOE #YouCantFixStupid https://t.co/WPsTWSZ6W6
Time to shrink the @usedgov . Let states & parents lead learning. Cut fed overreach, save $, & boost results. What are your thoughts @DOGE @elonmusk and @DOGECommittee? #DefundDOE #EducationFreedom #SchoolChoice #Trump
@iamnot_elon It’s a better idea.
But the #CaliforniaTeachersUnion, and #GavinNewsom should be denied assistance. They’ve grifted and punched down on Education, instead choosing Indoctrination
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This…. A perfect example for defunding the Department of Education.
🔍🤦🏻♀️😂. #DefundDOE.
Punctuation and Grammar matters. 🙄
The book Little Black Sambo written in 1899 by an author in the UK was in my grade school and then banned. Ok whatever. Yet Gender Queer written in 2019 is available in our schools. #defunddoe #homeschool
If kids in America can't read, then the Dept. of Education isn't doing it's job. #DefundDoE
"The federal government could send the department’s budget back to the states so they can have more education funding to spend as they see fit.
That would allow for more local control — and less wasteful spending on useless bureaucrats in Washington."
@elonmusk @CommunityNotes I can do these problems without writing them down. If our kids are going through 12 years of school, then college, and they can't work these problems.. it shows we have an education issue, not a race issue. even more of a reason to #DefundDOE
Omaha teachers denounce Trumps call to 'eliminate' Department of Education https://t.co/oP5Z70XtYE
Government schools need every minute possible to “instruct” your child on how to be an obedient communist. #DefundDOE
Any school time missed means valuable instructional time lost.
Learn more about how ED is raising the bar by redoubling efforts & redeploying resources to combat chronic absenteeism: https://t.co/MfV11QILpT #RaiseTheBar
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