It’s only taken 45 years for my father’s dream to come true – at least in part.

But thanks to Donald Trump, a Republican Congress and a conservative Supreme Court, the Department of Education is finally being dismantled.

My father called for the DOE to be abolished when he ran for president in 1980.

It didn’t happen, of course, and he couldn’t make it happen because Democrats ran Congress.

Creating a Cabinet-level DOE in 1979 was Jimmy Carter’s gift – some might call it a bribe – to the hurtful teacher unions, which have since paid back Democrats with millions of votes and billions in campaign donations.

The DOE was an unnecessary, wasteful and harmful federal intrusion into an area that was rightly and sensibly controlled by states and localities.

Liberals loved it because it gave them billions to spend on their dirty work.

But almost every conservative Republican presidential candidate including Trump promised to abolish the DOE – but never did or could.

By 2024 the DOE employed 4,133 bureaucrats. It spent an annual budget of $268 billion. Now it’s down to........

© Yuma Sun