The freakout over President Donald Trump‘s executive order instructing the administration to begin eliminating the Department of Education has nothing to do with learning or teaching. It has everything to do with the Left’s dream of centralizing education and indoctrinating children with trendy, progressive cultural values.

Indeed, it’s unlikely that most people are even aware that the Education Department has virtually nothing to do with their local schools. It doesn’t provide funding for the buildings, textbooks, or teacher salaries. Nearly 90% of all K–12 public school spending comes from state and local sources.