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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]By every metric American kids have fallen far behind their peers around the world since the ED was created.  From an educational perspective it’s been an unmitigated disaster. It’s been great for the unions though.  [/quote]

+1.  The DOE was yet another failure of the Carter administration in the '70s.   Before that, we had the Dept of HEW (Health, Education and Welfare.)

This is going on 50 years. Who with a straight face can say that the quality of any level of education in this country has improved in that time?

It's just more bureaucracy. Never a good thing.[/quote]

You all realize the schools are funded and curricula established at the local level, right?

DOE sets national minimum standards.

The bigger issue is the transfer of public monies to vouchers that are used for private and religious schools, diluting the money available for the public schools, and particularly those who are least able to afford or pursue alternatives.[/quote]

+100000

Vouchers are a scam. Most students who are poor or are in rural areas can't make use of them because they don't have transportation to the private schools, still can't afford the private schools' tuition, or aren't accepted by the private schools for whatever reason - too stringent academic standards or they have special needs the private school doesn't want to deal with. These are well known facts.[/quote]

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