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Return Education to the States, Let’s Abolish the Department of Education
Return Education to the States, Let’s Abolish the Department of Education
…But, the Republicans – even the few principled ones – are fearful of facing the wrath of the teacher unions and special interest tax-exempt foundations. Their political careers are foremost, not their country.
Reagan’s other failed promise besides abolishing the Dept. of Educ. was to eliminate the Dept. of Energy. That agency, too, has grown to be a parasitic behemoth. And, now you trust Romney more than Reagan????
September 7, 2012
Abolish the Department of Education?
Ann Kane and M. Catharine Evans
30 years ago, Ronald Reagan called for the termination of the Department of Education. But instead of disappearing, the Jimmy Carter creation has become a federal leviathan with no signs of abating in growth.
Reagan’s Secretary of Education Terrell H. Bell thwarted Reagan’s and the Christian right’s plan to do away with the cabinet level bureau. Bell, an educator by profession, was instrumental in publishing a report on the national status of our schools. Bell had the National Commission on Excellence in Education, which he created in 1981, prepare a document in 1983 called “A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform.” Read more>>
