SAVE $70: As of March 18, the Apple AirPods Max (USB-C) are on sale at Best Buy for $479.99. That's 12% off their list price of $549.99.

If you find yourself frequently listening to the latest and greatest songs, brand new audiobooks, or exciting podcasts, it's important to have headphones that can keep up with you. High-quality options usually come with a hefty price tag, but every once in a while a deal floats around that's worth taking advantage of. If you're an Apple user who has been looking to make the jump to the Apple AirPods Max (USB-C), you're in luck, as they're currently on sale at Best Buy.

The retailer has knocked the price of the Apple AirPods Max (USB-C) down by $70, from $549.99 to $479.99. This applies to all of the available colors as well, so you can choose between the midnight, blue, orange, purple, and starlight models. That's not all, though. Your purchase also comes with Apple Fitness+ for free for three months if you're a new subscriber and up to three months of Apple Music for free if you're a new or returning subscriber.

The AirPods Max headphones offer excellent sound quality courtesy of the Apple H1 chip. They also offer noise-canceling features that let you either completely tune out the world around you or open things up to hear your surroundings without cutting off what you're listening to. We had a lot of positives to note about them in our review, with Brenda Stolyar saying, "When it comes down to it, the AirPods Max check off almost all the boxes for what makes an excellent pair of headphones: great sound quality, ideal battery life, easy controls, and a stylish design (sans Smart Case)."

We also ranked them in our roundup of the best noise-canceling headphones for flying as the best option for Apple loyalists, noting "The AirPods Max aren't just a pretty pair of headphones. With the help of eight microphones, these headphones provide excellent active noise cancellation."

If you've been looking to upgrade your headphones, don't miss out on $70 off the Apple AirPods Max (USB-C) at Best Buy.

Outside of the AirPods Max, there are a few more Apple deals worth checking out right now. Over at Amazon, the AirPods Pro 2 have had a nice little discount, and at Best Buy you can save $100 on an Apple iPad mini.

California Sens. Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff are apparently upset with President Donald Trump’s moves to downsize the federal Department of Education.

They joined fellow Democratic senators in a letter to Secretary of Education Linda McMahon. “At a time of massive income and wealth inequality, when 60 percent of people live paycheck to paycheck, millions of Americans cannot afford higher education, and 40 percent of our nation’s 4th graders and 33 percent of 8th graders read below basic proficiency, it is a national disgrace that the Trump Administration is attempting to illegally abolish the Department of Education and thus, undermine a high-quality education for our students,” they wrote.

As an aside, it should be noted that the educational statistics they reference are even worse in Democratic and union-friendly California, where most students in 4th and 8th grade fail to meet the state proficiency standards in English language arts.

We also note that the senators seem to think the federal Department of Education is key to ensuring a high-quality education. The Department of Education was established under President Jimmy Carter in 1979 and has been operational since 1980. Carter pushed for the department in order to secure the support of the National Education Association, the biggest union in the nation.

As the Cato Institute’s Neal McCluskey has noted of the Department of Education’s actual record of accomplishment, “there is little evidence that federal K-12 funding markedly improves K-12 education. This is especially true absent rules that connect funding to testing outcomes, which might reflect more focus on testing than deep learning.”

The Cato Institute has also extensively documented the problems of federal meddling in higher-education, including the fueling of tuition inflation.

Nowhere in the the U.S Constitution is education mentioned as a responsibility of the federal government. Education is a matter best left to states, localities and parents.

Shuttering the Department of Education is the right thing to do. There is nothing the department does that can’t be done by other departments, by the states, and by the private sector.  It should never have been created in the first place.