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  • GOP lawmaker proposes abolishing Department of Education

    02/07/2017 11:29:34 PM PST · by Ciaphas Cain · 34 replies
    The Hill ^ | February 7, 2017 | Cristina Marcos
    On the same day the Senate confirmed President Trump’s secretary of Education pick by a historically narrow margin, a House Republican introduced legislation to abolish the entire department Betsy DeVos will lead. Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie’s bill is only a page long, after merely stating the Department of Education would terminate on Dec. 31, 2018. Massie believes that policymakers at the state and local levels should be responsible for education policy, instead of a federal agency that’s been in place since 1980. "Unelected bureaucrats in Washington, D.C. should not be in charge of our children's intellectual and moral development. States...