Nearly $4 Million Spent on Education Department Travel with Inadequate Transparency

For the third straight year, the Department of Education (DOE) has left lawmakers and taxpayers in the dark regarding how nearly $4 million was spent on over 8,000 travel trips in 2025. Despite clear legislative requirements for detailed reporting, DOE submitted records missing key information critical to assessing whether these expenses served public interests or merely squandered taxpayer funds. How Can Taxpayers Trust a Department That Won’t Account for Its Spending? The latest report from DOE includes basic data such as trip dates and general program associations but omits crucial details like employee job titles, travel justifications, funding sources, and...