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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Of course there is a need for reading and math skills in every state. But that does not mean that every state has to have the same written standards. [b]The states are charged with education by the US Constitution.[/b] They are totally within their rights to write their own standards and the feds cannot tell them how to do it.

Where?[/quote]

The tenth amendment.  There are other things the states also have control over---marriage laws, adoption laws, liquor license laws, etc.

[i]The Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution states: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." Since education is not mentioned in the Constitution, it is one of those powers reserved to the states. Of course, the United States Supreme Court can declare that something not mentioned in the Constitution is so closely related to something that is mentioned in the Constitution that the unmentioned power is a fundamental interest, which rises to constitutional protection. So far, the Supreme Court has not declared that education is a fundamental interest. Thus, states have plenary, or absolute, power in the area of education.[/i][/quote]

The Tenth Amendment does not charge the states with education. As you say, the Constitution doesn't say anything about education at all.[/quote]

Depends on interpretation - the Constitution does state that it is the responsibility of the federal government to provide for the general welfare of its citizens, which is a pretty broad mandate - stated not once but twice, in the Preamble and Article I Section 8.  That's an interpretation that's held up many times in the US Supreme Court on many matters.[/quote]

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