Posted on 10/01/2015 5:43:35 AM PDT by dontreadthis
When Washington’s education bureaucracy comes under political attack, it’s common to pin responsibility for its existence on Jimmy Carter. He signed legislation to establish the Department of Education in 1979, and critics note that this imposed a new department on a country that had gotten along quite well without one for more than 200 years.
But that’s not quite true. It wasn’t Jimmy Carter who launched the first Department of Education: it was Andrew Johnson, and the year was 1867. The department was small, ambitious and astonishingly short-lived. Congress abolished it and demoted its reformist chief just a year later.
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For those that don’t know, the reason the left will FIGHT TOOTH AND NAIL to keep the Department of Education in business is because without it, they would be forced to fight for their agenda in 50 state capitals, rather than just in DC - much more costly for them and likely much less expensive.
Department of Indoctrination.
It should be referred to as the ‘DOI’.
We need to kill a lot of these alphabet organizations. DEA. EPA. IRS. DOE. Take your pick.
Ah. That was when Congress understood their powers and used them the way they were intended.
As a check on a president doing something he shouldn't.
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.
Abolishing the Dept. of Educ. is as simple as acknowledging that there is no constitutional basis for the federal government to be involved in educational matters.
perfect
Dept of Ed. might lead to things like only the federal govt can issue student loans. Now you can’t get rid of the Dept of Ed.
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