Downsizing the Department of Education Ends Another Carter Legacy
Jimmy Carter ran for office promising to create a Department of Education.
Oddly enough, the only people who wanted such a thing were the teacher’s unions which were already destroying American education.
NOTE: There was a time when unions served their purpose well, however, that time has long ago come and gone.
This from frontpagemag.
The Dept of Ed started life with 6,400 employees and promptly began to oversee massive student loan fraud on an unprecedented scale while trying to micromanage and radicalize local education.
President Reagan promised to end the Department of Education, but he was stuck with a Leftist congress, and the media kept falsely promising that the Dept of Ed would somehow salvage public schools.
Unsurprisingly, it did just the…
