[rlmorel]

Education should have never been driven from the Federal level. It should ALWAYS have been the province of the States and local governments.

Never.

Never.

[Olog-hai]

Actually, it doesn’t belong to state and local governments either.

Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children’s factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, etc. etc.

— Tenth plank of communism

Any government control, even at state level, is the goal of socialists.

Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks.

— Communist goal #17

Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture — education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.

— Communist goal #32

That started at state level, before education began to be federalized.