Conservative group fights to abolish 'hopelessly broken' Department of Education
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A conservative nonprofit has launched a bid to abolish the Department of Education, which it claims has produced little results for taxpayers despite funding increases.
Waldeck's comments come as 1776 Action officially released a petition aimed at drumming up support for abolishing the Department of Education, which it claims has produced little results for students despite continued increases in funding.
According to numbers compiled by Education Data, the U.S. Department of Education Budget rose from $10.9 billion in 1980 to a high-water mark of $192.3 billion in 2010. While that funding generally declined throughout the next decade, numbers from K-12 Drive show funding ticked up again every year between 2019 and 2023, reaching $79.6 billion this year.