How did it ever get to the Federal Level to start with?? Every state did their own thing and it worked.
“How did it ever get to the Federal Level to start with?? Every state did their own thing and it worked.”
Thank Jimmy C44arter.
If we fund education from federal monies it should be as block grants to the individual states with no strings attached. California, New York and other liberal states will waste it. Texas, Florida and conservative states will use it wisely.
However, I wonder if the federal government should be involved with education at all. They screw up everything they touch.
“How did it ever get to the Federal Level to start with?? Every state did their own thing and it worked”
Overwhelming Democrat majorities in the Congress in the 70’s, that’s how.
On level with the civil rights act championed by Johnson
Nasty cancer that needs to be totally eliminated.
If it was an army, it would be defeated. If it made a product, no one would buy it!!!
“ How did it ever get to the Federal Level to start with?? Every state did their own thing and it worked.”
The teachers unions pushed for having a Department of Education since LBJ was president. They figured that they were able to exert more control over education at the federal level.
One room school houses worked, too.
Parents can, and SHOULD, hold their local schools accountable for the education of their children, if they are unwilling or unable to do it themselves.
Getting it to the federal level destroyed education in this country, as federal involvement with ANYTHING does.
Because Washington DC knew if they dangle $$ in front of the states, they’ll get takers. Once they got their foot in the door, its very hard to get them out.
They wanted more uniform basic standards of education across the states, and also became a mechanism for federal funding of poor states to be able to have basic supplies. Of course it turns into federal control and mandates shortly after that...
We can thank Jimmy Carter for that.
Pity he didn’t live long enough to see it undone.
Jimmy Carter strikes again.
He created the Department of Education as a gift to the “teacher’s” union for supporting him during the 1976 presidential campaign.
We must have top-down centralized planning if we are to be good Marxist-Leninist country.