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GOP senator introduces bill to eliminate US Department of Education

Slant Eyed Polack

Slant Eyed Polack

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Link: GOP senator introduces bill to eliminate US Department of Education

Sen. Mike Rounds, a South Dakota Republican, introduced a bill in the Senate Thursday to eliminate the U.S. Department of Education...

...“We all know local control is best when it comes to education,” Rounds said in his statement. “Local school boards and state Departments of Education know best what their students need, not unelected bureaucrats in Washington, D.C.”...

Good.

...Rounds' Returning Education to Our States Act proposes redistributing the work of the Education Department to other federal departments...

WTF?? Get the feds OUT of education, period.

School choice routinely polls around 70% nationally. Those numbers are even higher among blacks & hispanics. Nuking the Dept of Ed should be eminently doable. All that's required is the will. A good place to start would be having any federal dollars follow the student, and not the school, which the bill stipulates. That step will kneecap the execrable teachers unions, and spell the beginning of the end.
 
Many of us are old enough that we grew up and were schooled in an age of local and state control because Jimmy Carter had not yet created the Dept of Education.

Since he advent of big gubmint intervention into local schools our test scores, reading ability, knowledge of sciences and math have all steadily dropped. Yet we pump more and more money into the failing system.

Shut down the Dept of Ed. Reduce the federal taxes by the amount of $$$ consumed by the Dept of Ed. Raise State taxes by an equal amount. At least I know I can vote out my state people if they screw up.
 
Back in the Nineteen-Fifties inner city schools were a neglected disaster. The Dept of Education was supposed to be the vehicle to equalize K-12 education for every child.

60 years later inner-city schools are still a disaster. And so are many, many, others. I guess the goal of equality is being met. :rolleyes: :whistling:
 
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