I have wondered about the Department of Education.
The Department of Education was created in 1979. Jimmy Carter pulled education out of the old department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Education was important enough to be its own cabinet level department we were told.
My question is — is the state of public education in this country better because we have a cabinet level department dedicated to education??? Has this department helped public schools student achievement? Has this department achieved the goals set out for that department all those years ago???
Even if it were better (it obviously isn’t) it would still be unconstitutional. Education is NOT one of the enumerated powers given to the feds.