Paul has Reagan’s talent for explaining things in ways people understand, unlike the incomprehensible syntax of the Bushes, the whishpering syntax of John McCain, or the stuttering syntax of Mitt Romney.
Some would definitely notice - the hogs who feed from the payoff trough.
Why doesn't Sen. Rand Paul point out that, with the exception of military training establishments, the states have never delegated to the feds, via the Constitution, the specific power to define intrastate schooling policy?
The Federal Department of Education should never have exited in the first place.
We would notice, and it would all be good. States and communities would actually get to decide what education is best for their children.
We’d notice. It wouldn’t be long before all of the whining and crying from the union thugs would become unbearable.
DoED created by the peanut farmer. Nuff said.
I am a product of that Carter-induced monstrosity.
I graduated 126/610, in the oldest of five high schools and a trade center, in town.
I took the College Level Equivalency Program tests, while in the U.S. military, and gathered enough credits equal to two years of a four year degree, at that time.
David Axelrod is just another Communist, with the same POV they employ, ‘The State is all’.
Money has never been an answer to this. We spend more on education than any other nation per capita and still rank amongst the lowest in test scores.
Ditto for health care. We spend 1/6th of our economy on health care and still have a life expectancy no better than almost all of the modern societies. All the money we have spent seems to mostly just prolong life to the misery stage and beyond for most of the elder survivors.
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.
Rand states something great like this, and then, in the next breath, puts out an Amnesty plan, or states that social or moral issues have to be put on the back burner.
He is a real mixed bag.
His statement on the social issues disqualifies him from any real leadership position like POTUS.
Conservatives have always been against the Department of Education, we can choose a conservative to advance that cause, not a guy who is Obamalike on social issues and national defense, and foreign policy.
I confess not reading the entire article. The excerpt sounds like Rand Paul advocates continuing to spend “$100 Billion” from the federal budget, but by doling it out directly to the states, with a federal bureaucracy in the middle.
I am NOT pleased with that idea at all. The federal D.O.E. needs to go, by cutting federal education programs and spending about 15% annually until it reaches zero, to allow for the transition to freedom. States and Localities should fund state and local education from the resources of the people they serve, to the extent those people want services. The only way to avoid obeying federal orders is to stop taking federal funding.
Yes you would. The students would start learning again instead of being brainwashed with liberal nonsense. Eliminate this Department immediately. It is worthless and very expensive.
What a deal. The Feds take a dollar out of the state.
They waste completely 75 cents of it. They five 10 cents of it to the children of other states. They they give the state back 15 cents, but only if they comply with Federal mandates that cost $10 to implement.
Actually I think many teachers would notice a big change - for the better - niece who’s a teacher complains constantly about the needless and time-consuming paper work she has to submit all the time - individualized goals and standards for kids in her class which she and everyone else in school knows are unrealistic and impossible to measure and quantify - get rid of the bureaucrats with their make-work regulations, and education would take a great leap forward.....
Paul read my book!
Like I said, this is a conservative position, we don’t need an anti-conservative/social liberal/ gay marriage libertarian to fight the department, we can just seek conservatives.
Republicans Love to Hate the Department of Education
Yahoo Contributor Network By Simon Nguyen September 27, 2011
“Every time Republicans talk about spending cuts, the Department of Education always seems to be part of the discussion. In the last GOP presidential debate, most of the nine Republican candidates on stage named the department as an area that needs to be downsized or abolished. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney was the only candidate who did not criticize the department, though he did advocate leaving key decisions on education to states.
Since its inception, the Department of Education has been a sore point with Republicans.
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Through the years, several notable Republicans, including former president Ronald Reagan and retired U.S. senator Bob Dole, had used the elimination of the department as a key campaign platform.
Republicans also oppose the Department of Education on ideological grounds.
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Also, any legislation to eliminate the federal institution will be fiercely opposed by Senate Democrats. Reagan pushed hard to remove the department during his tenure, only to see his efforts stumped by congressional Democrats.
Department of Education is a massive scam... always has been..
It’s NOT A MISTAKE it’s a SCAM....
Was always meant to be a scam and will remain a scam UNTIL..
It’s proponents have PROSECUTED.. and jailed..
Until then.......... the thievery will go on..