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The United States survived for two centuries without the federal department of education and was able to do so again. The faculty has been around for 45 years, but students have not made much progress. For example, nine-year-olds don’t read better readings today than they were when the department was founded in 1979.
The truth is that having a Cabinet-level agency dedicated to education makes our children smarter, our schools aren’t doing better or academic achievement.
Demote it, perhaps integrate some features into other departments, and from the door to the sign. Such a move requires Congressional consent, but does not harm the future of today’s children or the country. We call this a former education secretary. One is for President Ronald Reagan and the other for President George HW Bush.
Trump praised parents with exclusion from the education sector
This is a live concern as Doge shakes its wide x – which eliminates some important programs and responsibilities currently in the education sector.
One of the most important things the education department does is “The Nation’s Report Card.” This helps you understand students’ performance. (istock)
The agency does three important things: All of that needs to be overhauled, but everything is too important to dispose of. Don’t throw these babies out in the bath.
The first is the “national report card.” This regular accounting is organized by a unit called the National Center for Educational Statistics. It collects important data, manages critical tests of student performance, informs the nation of 3RS about how children are doing, and how they are doing American history, citizens and science. There is no data – collected regularly, carefully analyzed and accurately reported – we don’t know much about the educational responsibility that Congress was first assigned in the law passed in 1867.
“…[C]Recovering statistics and facts showing the conditions and progress of education in some states and territories, as well as information on the organization and management of schools and school systems, spreading education methods, helping to establish and maintain the people of the United States, and otherwise promoting the causes of education throughout the country.
Over a century and a half later, we still need everything!
The second is to correct student civil rights violations. Here we talk about actual violations rather than Orwell’s search for “differential influences,” which has been the focus of enforcers of the education sector in recent years. But it’s the education department’s job to try and solve the problem for a Jew (or Muslim) student who is not receiving the schooling that she needs, or a minority of children refused to enter a qualified university, or a Jewish (or Muslim) student harassed on campus. (The Department of Justice can probably handle this, but I’ve been pretty full these days!)
Third, the education department distributes federal dollars for a variety of programs and services in schools and universities. This garden definitely requires weeding. Even better – as we have proposed in the past, most K-12 programs should be “blocked” by the state.
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The Senate Act of 2014 recommended that 41% of the state’s primary school algebra dollars be converted to a $2,100 scholarship. A similar law proposed such federal scholarships for children with disabilities. Many states have already done this.
As school choices spread along with local dollars (often) to the states and (often) the schools where children actually attend, large federal programs use creaky formulas that distribute funds to schools in ways that never reach young people who are intended to benefit from them.
The agency does three important things: All of that needs to be overhauled, but everything is too important to dispose of. Don’t throw these babies out in the bath.
Different in Higher Ed, it offers Pell grants to poor college students who actually accompany participating universities. If such a voucher is something that is Pell’s grant, if it helped create the best university, why not use them to make the best schools?
It eliminates the layer of bureaucracy, injects the necessary competition into the education system, and drives Uncle Sam out of the way of national decision makers, especially children, making the best school choices.
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The Ministry of Education contains a lot of dirty baths that should be discharged. However, three babies are scattered in it. Certainly clean them, but don’t throw them away.
Lamar Alexander and Bill Bennett served as U.S. Education Secretaries for George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan, respectively.
Lamar Alexander was elected both the governor and the US Senate from Tennessee. He also served as president of the University of Tennessee and US Secretary of Education to President George HW Bush. He co-founded two successful businesses with a law firm in Nashville.
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