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I had to excerpt just three hundred words The whole article at original source is quite enlightening.
When it was made a cabinet level department in 1979 (Jimmy Carter) it had a budget of $14.5 billion. $68.6 billion probably doesn’t even cover inflation and devalued dollar. Clearly what is needed is even MORE money.
Sad to think about the level of high school education I received (graduated in 1979!) compared to what my kids had.
bkmk
And on the camel’s back were socialists, especially the Marxist-socialist adherents of The Frankfurt School in the 1940’s, a nasty unAmerican bunch that brought us sensitivity training and consensus building (techniques of indoctrination), and pushed into our schools using Columbia U. as HQ.
Completely eliminate the Department of Education. Turn over their data to the states with a suggestion that they maintain any data worth sharing, but otherwise . . . scorched earth. Leave nothing behind to build on, no two stones one on top of another. Lease the buildings to productive private companies.
We have to create facts on the ground. Whether President Trump has four years or eight years, we want to make it as hard as possible for the socialists to regain their death grip on the minutia of our lives. The unconstitutional and useless Department of Education is a good place to start.