Whereas:
The most recent National Assessment of Educational Progress finds that barely over a quarter of high-school seniors are proficient in math and less than half are proficient in reading; and
Whereas:
Graduation rates and reading, math, and science scores have shown no improvement across more than forty years of exponentially-rising education spending; and
Whereas:
American student achievement has for years lagged behind that of countries that spend far less on education; and
Whereas:
The federal education bureaucracy continues to fund programs like Head Start even as its own studies admit such programs do not produce results;
Therefore:
I urgently demand your vote to abolish the Department of Education and end this costly, failed intervention in America's schools.