Eliminating the dept. of ed. will do little to help or hurt our dismal educational system. Especially in this county already so far behind most of the state, very little of the school system budget is funded by the federal government. Why are your young doctors Asian, south Asian? Why are so many skilled tradesmen Hispanic and Slavic? The nations Education system is not even middle of the road in comparison to other developed countries. Even in a local comparison NJ studies show a 1600 word deficit from CMC public school students compared to those in Morris, Hunterdon, Bergen by grade 4