The conservative question is, "Does it work?"

And the liberal questions are, "Does it look good?"

That's why they don't ask, "And did it work?"

Eighteen thousand a year spent on students. That's in NYC and Washington, D.C. and other high-paying states. It hasn't helped. Even the smaller classroom expenditures in California caused zero improvement in student achievement.

Prager asks, "Why do we need the Department of Education?"

We don't. It hasn't done a damned thing for education. As a matter of fact, because the bureaucrats entrenched there have NO CLUE what a good education looks like. However, they do know how to take authority away from the people who are actually looking the children in the face. They do know how to think up stupid, silly, nonsensical "theories", impose them on the children, turn glassy-eyed when they don't work, and pronounce that what we need is more of this stuff.

We need to get rid of this horrible, expensive bureaucracy which has presided over a horrible, horrible decline in the quality of education in this country.