Another Republican Calls for Axing the Department of Education

Another Republican Calls for Axing the Department of Education
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Just as Colorado's GOP State Chair Steve House is telling his fellow Republicans to talk more about education and less about guns, GOP Senate candidate Peggy Littleton is saying that one of her top priorities if elected would be to abolish the Department of Education.

Asked by KCOL morning host Jimmy Lakey what she'd do if she were the "queen for a day" in the U.S. Senate, Littleton said:

Littleton: I would love to see the Department of Education go away. I don't want those bureaucrats in Washington to deermine what our kids are going to learn and be able to do and have taken education away from the parents, which is where it originally belongs." Listen to Littleton on KCOL's Jimmy Lakey Show 1.26.16

"Education belongs in the hands of the parents, teachers and local school boards, not with unelected bureaucrats in DC," Littleton tweeted about her radio comments.

Littleton, who's vying with about a dozen other Republicans to run against Democrat Sen. Michael Bennet, is following in the footsteps of a list of (mostly) failed Republicans who've called for the elimination of the Department of Education. (Usually they don't talk about the the Department's job training, grant making, and research functions.)

Rick Perry remembered the Education Department during his Ooops Mooment, when he forgot one of the three federal departments he'd shutter.

During his failed U.S. Senate run, Ken Buck called for its closure. So did loser U.S. Senate candidate Jane Norton. Failed Scott McInnis suggested axing it in 2010.

We'll see if Littleon has better luck than them.

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