In recent election cycles, more than a few Republican presidential candidates have boasted about their plans to scrap the federal Department of Education altogether. Indeed, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) recently
told a group of voters, “I honestly think we don’t need a Department of Education.”
GOP candidate Ben Carson, however, doesn’t want to eliminate the cabinet agency; he wants to repurpose it. The
Huffington Post reported yesterday:
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson said Wednesday he would use the U.S. Department of Education to police speech on college campuses.
During an interview, Glenn Beck asked Carson if he would shut down the Education Department as president.
“I actually have something I would use the Department of Education to do,” Carson explained. “It would be to monitor our institutions of higher education for extreme political bias and deny federal funding if it exists.”
I’ve read this a few times, and watched
the video of the exchange, and I can’t help but wonder if he realizes how ridiculous this sounds.
told a group of Republicans that he was “thinking very seriously” about adding “a covert division of people who look like the people in this room, who monitor what government people do.”
Would a similar “covert division” be used by a Carson administration on college campuses?
And here I thought illiberal SJWs were the problem? 
. That's it, since it's been open education spending has more than tripled but test scores remain flat. The only thing that has significantly improved is HS graduation. But that's overrated because so many HS students aren't proficient at math/Science/reading on a 12th grade level.
As if that somehow changes the context of this man's ideas.
