Schools get 2 trillion funds,yet they fail

Why should we keep the Department of Education around?

When it spends about 2 trillion dollars of combined State, and Federal spending...each year!!!?

Clearly the US,does not have issues with teaching children, due to how little we  as a nation spend on the kids.

After all,we are ranked 20th something....

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Pretty much most of the Western nations of varying competence and quality. Pretty much nearly all of Western Europe, the Scandinavian countries and Finland, Australia and New Zealand. I'm not sure about the UK. The former Soviet and Soviet satellite countries are lagging even behind the US (but considering their past, this isn't surprising).