No, Eliminating the Department of Education Would Not ‘Devastate’ U.S.

Townhall.com ^ | September 9, 2016 | Teresa Mull

[Altura Ct.]

It would be one of the best things we could do.

[ballplayer]

Well anyone reading here who graduated before 1977,tell us how you were cheated because there was no Dept. of Education before then.
Thank Senator Abraham Ribicoff of Connecticut for it and Jimmy Carter

[elpadre]

Take time to do a little research and you will find that in all categories, the results of efforts to education the young people in the US began it’s nosedive after the institution of the DOE under Carter. States do a better job.

[elpadre]

and one thing more, I am convinced the student loan program is the reason colleges have continued to raise tuition. The government is ready to pay any amount. No matter how high it goes, Uncle Sam is there never restricting the school, just saying, “send me the bill.” Parents of America cannot compete with the government willingness to pay. The student loan program, IMO, is the reason for collegiate greed.

[Paladin2]

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2007/10/how-sputnik-changed-u-s-education/

[Chickensoup]

Best idea ever!

[Rockitz]

Make it so, #1.

[oldtech]

I made it through my school days just fine(& probably much better than average)without the DEA. The federal gov’t. has no business messing with education. This is not to say that it would be the only gov’t. agency that needs to be abolished.

[hinckley buzzard]

I graduated from high school in 1964. Believe it or not, there was zero federal involvement, including financial "aid," to education at that time. We received a better education then than most slackers, X gens, millenials have gotten since. ETS has had to dumb down the SAT's twice since then just to make it fair.

[T-Bird45]

12 posts into the thread and the key behind every political discussion comes to the fore: Follow the Money!!! In this case, the tale as old as time is told, again: money is taken by force (taxes), a large amount is skimmed in DC for operational costs (payoffs to insiders), and a paltry amount is returned in the form of grants with multiple strings to ensure favored programs continue (Common Core). The same tale and template applies every time, only the faces and programs change. Very little true value is generated by this money-laundering scheme.

[TBP]

It would improve things.

[bert]

American education is for educators, not students