Commentary I don’t know if there’s a more reactionary, superfluous arm of the U.S. government than the Department of Education. (Well, maybe National Public Radio, whose newsroom called the Hunter Biden story a “waste of time,” but NPR only gets a small government stipend.) During the Trump administration among his most criticized appointees was Education Secretary Betsy DeVos—probably with justification. But in fairness to DeVos, no one could have done that job well short of turning out the lights and shutting the doors forever. Education should always be done locally, as far from Washington bureaucrats as humanly possible. This local control should avail itself of charter schools, and school choice (obviously). homeschooling and every other form of education that people—largely parents—can devise for the better education of their children to prepare them and the country for the future. This doesn’t have to do with money. One of the great illusions, great lies …