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Posted on 03/06/2016 4:41:54 AM PST by reaganaut1
Creating the Department of Education in 1979 was certainly one of the worst blunders the nation made in that whole blunder-filled decade. Having neither a constitutional warrant nor any rationale except to reward the teachers’ unions for backing Jimmy Carter, the Department barely made it through Congress. (Even the New York Times thought it a bad idea, as Richard Vedder notes in this Pope Center article in which he explores the damage this agency has done.)
Since then, we have wasted billions on the Department but educational results are worse than ever. And now it’s evident that the bureaucrats have gone rogue, instituting regulations they have no authority to institute and violating the Administrative Procedure Act.
On April 4, 2011, the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) sent a letter purporting to give college and university officials guidance in complying with the law. That isn’t unusual; regulatory agencies often issue statements meant to help people understand and obey laws they enforce.
But there was something extraordinary about that letter. It appears to have stepped way over the line between guiding people in understanding and obeying the law (which is all right) and making up new law (which is beyond the legal authority of regulators).
The substance of this “Dear Colleague” letter concerned the OCR’s desire to see colleges and universities become more aggressive in investigating and prosecuting cases where a student was accused of sexual assault or harassment. Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972 prohibits schools from discriminating on the basis of sex. For no clear reason, OCR officials decided that complying with Title IX requires colleges to (among other things) adopt a “preponderance of the evidence” standard when they adjudicate cases of sexual assault or harassment.
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Education is the domain of the states. The federal role is nil.
Need to abolish Dept of Education, and along with it other areas duplicating the states including EPA.
Person A: The Department of Education was a bad idea. They should defund it.
Person B: You want to shut down all the schools??? You don't think kids should learn to read and write and do arithmetic??? Are you insane????
Because (you know) everything falls apart unless a government bureaucracy is on the scene making sure everything runs smoothly!
No, because most of the Department of Education budget is distributed to the states to fund education. Zero out the budget and you eliminate funding. Eliminate the department and keep the part sent to the states and you really aren't saving much.
One of the many stupid actions by government.
The act itself is un-Constitutional.
Nowhere is there power in the Constitution for Congress to delegate the law making power to the Executive, and fig leafs that say "well it's just civil penalties" are just that.
government can NOT SOLVE ANY PROBLEMS
only the private sector can.....
have we learned that lesson yet...???
Deptartment of Education and the EPA were both created by Presidential Executive Order, they can be de-created the same way.
“Deptartment of Education and the EPA were both created by Presidential Executive Order, they can be de-created the same way.”
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not what I recall.
Education; Congress in 1979 http://www2.ed.gov/about/overview/focus/what_pg2.html
Our sovereignty is eroded almost every day. Unless we take it back soon, there will be none.
You are right. Education not by executive order.
“Eliminate the department and keep the part sent to the states and you really aren’t saving much.”
Wash DC agencies cost a heck of a lot to staff and run, and they cost in terms of useless paperwork compliance actions and needless regulations, silly studies and inventing a new crisis.
Abolish the Dept of Education, let the states keep the money and never send it to DC to feed a useless bloated bureaucracy.
More money in the states and no need for begging Wash DC for crumbs while promising to dance the tune the “elites.”
How much will be saved? A billion here, a billion there and soon we are talking real money.
THEY HAVE NEVER EDUCATED ANYONE!!!
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