With President-elect Donald Trump getting another term next year, many school choice activists, including Oklahoma State Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters, are hopeful that the Department of Education will be abolished and education policy will return to the states.

Trump has come out and said that he wanted the Department of Education, however Republicans have been throwing around that idea since the 1980s and it hasn't been able to get done. 

"We're going to end education coming out of Washington, D.C.," Trump said in a policy video. "We're going to close up all those buildings all over the place.......we're going to send it all back to the states."

The Department of Education was founded in October 1979 under Democratic President Jimmy Carter. Many Republicans have argued that the department has done more damage to education than benefited it.