The Cannon
- David Bozell
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Your daily blast of infotainment from ForAmerica.
Saturday, November 22, 2025
Federalism and Transparency Are on the Thanksgiving Menu
Thanksgiving is just around the corner, and Americans have plenty to be grateful for — including real momentum on an issue ForAmerica has been calling for since our inception: dismantling the Department of Education.
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This week, the White House highlighted what the recent Democrat-led shutdown quietly revealed: 90 percent of the Department of Education’s staff were furloughed, and the country didn’t miss a beat. Nothing collapsed. Nothing broke. Parents, teachers, and students carried on — proof of what we’ve been saying all along.
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Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt went further, announcing that the DOE has now begun formal inter-agency agreements to move more of its remaining duties to other executive branches. The department is shrinking — in staff, in authority, and in purpose — exactly the direction ForAmerica has long argued it should go.
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And it’s overdue. The federal government has spent more than $3 trillion on the DOE since Jimmy Carter created it, with student performance declining during the same period. Washington’s education bureaucracy has become a bloated, ineffective middleman. The shutdown simply exposed it.
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ForAmerica has been pushing for years to return education decisions to states, localities, and parents — where they belong. Now, with the DOE’s responsibilities being peeled away, Americans are finally seeing the first glimpse of that vision: real federalism and real transparency in education.
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Heading into Thanksgiving, that’s something worth celebrating.
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David Bozell
President, ForAmerica
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