The Facts

• Republican South Dakota Senator Mike Rounds introduced legislation on Thursday to eliminate the Department of Education.

• Rounds has said that the legislation would "eliminate" the department and redistribute all critical federal programs to other agencies.

• Rounds said that it is time to end the “bureaucratic department” continuing on to say that “Local school boards and state Departments of Education know best what their students need, not unelected bureaucrats in Washington, D.C."