Nobody (not even liberals) can truthfully say that K-12 education is better today than it was 50 years ago. The Department of Education is a total, complete, abject failure, and should be eliminated forthwith.
Most of FedZilla is a is a total, complete, abject failure, and should be eliminated forthwith.
Has public education improved since Jimmy Carter created the Department of Education?
I think it’s worth having discussions, about whether certain bureaucracies are really needed, and/or, are they doing the job they were set up to do.
It is stunning news ,,to learn that in Baltimore , a number of schools have zero students achieving a grade level.
There will always be some students who are lagging behind grade level, but, an entire school has zero students achieving at grade level?
The Department of Education was a spin off from the Health, Education and Welfare Department which began in 1953 under Eisenhower.
In 1979 when Congress was debating the bill to create the Department, on Congressman properly raised the concern that the department should have a different name to avoid confusion of the acronym for the Department of Energy. Department of Public Education and Youth recognizing the intent to sway the young people was the first attempt that was voted down. Then more simply the Department of Public Education was tried, and failed. Almost 50 years later we can confirm the proposals were on the mark - the Department of Education as actually DOPEY and has only produced DOPE children.