Education elicited nary a blip as a top voter issue this past election, but make no mistake that America’s system of higher education has been as badly damaged as any other part of our economy left under control of Biden’s far-left Washington bureaucrats for four years. Incompetence and partisanship at the Department of Education has made it harder, more expensive, and complicated than ever for someone to get a college degree or earn a training certification for a promotion. Thankfully, change is just around the corner.

For the last four years, my organization, CASE, has fought back against the Biden-Harris administration’s radical higher education policies. My organization dove into the Department of Education’s open bias and pernicious rules intended to limit students in their preference for attending an institution of higher learning. We’ve brought attention to the FAFSA debacle, the illegal student loan bailout schemes, harmful rulemakings, and biased actions. Taken together, this list of DOE activities over the past four years reads like a criminal rap sheet.

The administration has put career colleges, proprietary schools, and technical training centers that offer prospective students more learning options and greater opportunity directly in the crosshairs. These schools further create effective competition with traditional four-year institutions and their accompanying ideologies.

Fortunately, President-elect Trump has nominated Linda McMahon to lead the DOED and correct course. Whether Trump moves to close down the agency as he has vowed on occasion, it is our hope that the Senate moves swiftly to confirm her nomination to get a head start on the enormous amount of work to be achieved. She will serve as a pivotal figure in much-needed reform, including extending the Higher Education Act and fixing some of the politically biased misguided rules implemented by Sec. Cardona.

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