The Department of Education never should have been created in the first place. The main reason it exists is because Jimmy Carter and the Democrats running Congress wanted to placate the nation’s largest teachers union, the National Education Association, by creating the department back in 1979.
Prior to Carter signing the Department of Education Organization Act Statement, the federal concern for public education fell under the Department of Health, where it had been for two hundred years.
When Carter signed the law, he gave a statement that now, in light of decades of history, is overflowing with irony: ….
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