Dismantling a Cabinet-level department represents profound constitutional damage across multiple dimensions. ELECTION (4.5): Eliminates federal education oversight infrastructure, fundamentally altering governmental structure and democratic accountability mechanisms. RULE_OF_LAW (4.0): Dismantles regulatory framework governing federal education law enforcement and civil rights protections in schools. SEPARATION (4.5): Major executive restructuring of federal architecture, potentially concentrating power or creating governance vacuum. CIVIL_RIGHTS (3.5): Department enforces Title IX, disability rights (IDEA), and educational equity - dismantling threatens enforcement mechanisms. CAPTURE (3.0): Shifts education policy control to states/private actors, potential regulatory capture. CORRUPTION (2.0): Moderate concerns about transparency in restructuring process. High severity multipliers: durability 1.2 (institutional destruction is lasting), reversibility 0.9 (can be reversed but difficult), precedent 1.3 (unprecedented peacetime elimination of major department). Mechanism modifier 1.15 for policy_change with institutional destruction. Scope 1.3 for federal action affecting all states. B-score elevated (24.4) due to high partisan polarization and media coverage, but substantially lower than A-score. Delta of +27.9 clearly indicates List A classification.