> To be fair, I don’t think anyone’s trying to eliminate public education. That’s a very unfair characterization. It's not unfair at all, that is what they're

> To be fair, I don’t think anyone’s trying to eliminate public education. That’s a very unfair characterization. It's not unfair at all, that is what they're trying to do. It would be a political career ender to say that so they say things like "trying to cut down large education bureaucracies that don’t appear to be benefiting the students." But there is an influential contingent of republicans that wants to effectively end american universal public education and they're not meaningfully opposed within the party. > It’s not clear that the Federal resources in the Dept of Education are directly benefiting the students. What's your area of experience with education where this is how you've come to see it? Because for what I do, it's extremely obvious that these resources do benefit the students.