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I am trying to determine the origin of the Department of Education (I don't believe it should exist at all). If this doesn't shock a person I don't know what will. This is from a Drexel University Web Page ...
"The history of the Department of Education goes back to 1867, when President Andrew Jackson signed legislation that created the first Department of Education."
(see: http://www.cis.drexel.edu/faculty/shelfer/public_html/busrefpapers/edu.htm )
Of course, Andrew Jackson was President between 1829 and 1837. He died in 1845.
According to https://www2.ed.gov/about/overview/fed/role.html its original charter was "to collect information on schools and teaching that would help the States establish effective school systems. "
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(This is the second part of an ongoing series on federal "Common Core" education standards and the corruption of academic excellence.)
The Washington, D.C., board of education earned widespread mockery this week when it proposed allowing high school students -- in the nation's own capital -- to skip a basic U.S. government course to graduate. But this is fiddlesticks compared to what the federal government is doing to eliminate American children's core knowledge base in English, language arts and history.
Thanks to the "Common Core" regime, funded with President Obama's stimulus dollars and bolstered by duped Republican governors and business groups, deconstructionism...
The United States Department of Education, also referred to as ED or the ED for (the) Education Department, is a Cabinet-level department of the United States government. Recreated by the Department of Education Organization Act (Public Law 96-88) and signed into law by President Jimmy Carter on October 17, 1979, it began operating on May 4, 1980.[2]
In 1979, President Carter advocated for creating a cabinet-level Department of Education.[5] Carter's plan was to transfer most of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare's education-related functions to the Department of Education.[5] Carter also planned to transfer the education-related functions of the departments of Defense, Justice, Housing a
The Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, was superintendent of schools for Chicago before assuming the federal post under Ovomit. Chicago's public schools are the lowest in the country for the quality. In fact, only Mexico City's schools are worse.