I remember when Jimmy Carter created this department. It was just supposed to coordinate among the various state education departments to collect data and provide it to everyone and enforce certain civil rights matters like desegregation of schools. It has grown into a monster and now Obama has turned it into yet another weapon in the arsenal of Liberal Social Justice and the war on traditional moral values. Any expansion of government is twisted into something evil. This department needs to be shut down.
In 2010, Barack Obama called for fixing the public education system by giving us the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and “Race to the Top,”
which he said would fix the education system already fixed by the 2001 GW Bush and Ted Kennedy legislation called “No Child Left Behind,”
which was supposed to fix a system supposedly already fixed by a 1994 piece of federal legislation called “Goals 2000,”
which was supposed to fix a system already fixed by “America 2000,”
which was a 1991 response during the Bush administration to a 1983 federal report on education called “A Nation at Risk,
which was published a full four years after Jimmy Carter first fixed the nation’s public school system by establishing a cabinet-level Department of Education in 1979.