Now a national favorite, Rand Paul has an ambitious agenda for when he gets to Washington and that includes abolishing the Department of Education. This is all very disconcerting to me because it demonstrates a politician’s desire to put political survival above sound, pragmatic policy.

For some students, paying for college just became a little bit easier. The Obama administration announced in late June its intention to simplify the Free Application for Federal Student Aid. A goal of the administration is to lighten the load of the 16 million students and their families who must collect all pertinent financial information [...]