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Podcast: Townhall Review | Commentaries
Episode: Carol Platt Liebau: Time for Serious and Substantive Reform
Description: Donald Trump has promised to close the Department of Education. It’s about time.Despite spending hundreds of billions since its founding in 1979, student test scores have gone down. If we’re going to do right by America’s children, serious reforms are in order. It’s time to get education policy out of Washington and into laboratories of experimentation in the states. The left claims that more spending will fix education. That’s just not true. In New York, they spend the most — thirty thousand dollars per child—but only 33 percent of students are reading pr...