The Supreme Court’s decision to let Team Trump fire hundreds of Education Department employees hands him — and the nation — a double-barreled win.
First, it reinforces the concept, underscored by another high-court ruling last week, that the executive branch has a fundamental right to hire and fire employees who work for . . . the executive branch.
Second, planned layoffs of more than 1,300 of the agency’s 4,000 employees will significantly help President Donald Trump achieve his goal of dismantling it entirely.
This is terrific news for students, parents — and taxpayers.
The department, after all, has spent billions of taxpayer dollars and produced close to no improvement in learning — with much of that loot going to blue states and teachers unions.
If anything it’s saddled schools with woke agendas, forcing boys into girls’ sports and locker rooms, for example, and kowtowed to labor.
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