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“One of the first things I’ll do in my term is to close the Department of Education in Washington and transfer all educational responsibilities to the states. We want them to handle the education of our children because they’ll do a much better job. We spend three times more per student than any other nation, but even so, we’re at the bottom of the list. We couldn’t do worse. We will end the Department of Education in Washington, close all buildings, where some people even hate our children, and send the entire system to the states.”
Spanish.— In this way, President-elect Donald Trump confirms that he will fulfill one of his main campaign promises. Elon Musk shared Trump’s message on his X account, saying the proposal is a “good idea.”
Without a doubt, this initiative is excellent news for the United States, a country where federalism has contributed significantly in areas of competition, even beyond economics, such as justice, where it is allowed to establish by free contracts the states where potential conflicts would be litigated.
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The further administrations are from public services and consumers, the more disincentives proliferate, both economically and in terms of service quality. In many countries, when something doesn’t work at the local level, governors, mayors, or city officials often blame responsibilities beyond their control.
Now, with more parental oversight and a nearby official for accountability, governors will need to provide a good service, as failing to do so would come with high costs at the ballot box.
In Trump’s first term, Betsy DeVos served as Secretary of Education at the national level. She is a woman with strong ideas, not only in terms of decentralization but also on homeschooling and alternative models. It would be highly beneficial for this vision to prevail in Republican-led states aligned with the President, so that the closure of the national Department of Education is only the beginning of a larger, more ambitious reform: to fully liberate the educational system, offering parents more choices and better preparing children for a world that has modernized far more than traditional political systems.
