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The department of education should be dissolved.

Pence has started that path into motion.

That won't happen because big brother liberals would go absolutely bonkers.

the law of the land, will be the law.

A previous Department of Education was created in 1867 but was soon demoted to an Office in 1868.[5][6] As an agency not represented in the president's cabinet, it quickly became a relatively minor bureau in the Department of the Interior. In 1939, the bureau was transferred to the Federal Security Agency, where it was renamed the Office of Education. In 1953, the Federal Security Agency was upgraded to cabinet-level status as the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.

In 1979, President Carter advocated for creating a cabinet-level Department of Education.[7] Carter's plan was to transfer most of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare's education-related functions to the Department of Education.[7] Carter also planned to transfer the education-related functions of the departments of Defense, Justice, Housing and Urban Development, and Agriculture, as well as a few other federal entities.[7] Among the federal education-related programs that were not proposed to be transferred were Headstart, the Department of Agriculture's school lunch and nutrition programs, the Department of the Interior's Indian education programs, and the Department of Labor's education and training programs.[7]

Upgrading Education to cabinet level status in 1979 was opposed by many in the Republican Party, who saw the department as unconstitutional, arguing that the Constitution doesn't mention education, and deemed it an unnecessary and illegal federal bureaucratic intrusion into local affairs. However, many see the department as constitutional under the Commerce Clause, and that the funding role of the Department is constitutional under the Taxing and Spending Clause. The National Education Association supported the bill, while the American Federation of Teachers opposed it.[8]

As of 1979, the Office of Education had 3,000 employees and an annual budget of $12 billion.[9] Congress appropriated to the Department of Education an annual budget of $14.2 billion and 17,000 employees when establishing the Department of Education.[10] During the 1980 presidential campaign, Gov. Reagan called for the total elimination of the U.S. Department of Education, severe curtailment of bilingual education, and massive cutbacks in the federal role in education. Once in office, President Reagan succeeded significantly to reduce the budget.[11]

On March 23, 2007, President George W. Bush signed into law H.R. 584, which designates the ED Headquarters building as the Lyndon B. Johnson Department of Education Building.[12]

Some on the left are now threatening to homeschool their kids. Good for them.

This is a great history on the Department of Education which the republicans are about to destroy with the confirmation Betsy DeVos, this is the finest example of PAY TO PLAY EVER.

One thing is certain, public education in America cannot get any worse.

Yes it can and it just did with the confirmation Betsy DeVos.

What did Arne Dumcan do?

Arne Duncan (born November 6, 1964) was the United States Secretary of Education from 2009 through December 2015.[1][2] His tenure as Secretary was marked by controversy. Conservatives and some parents opposed his push for all U.S. states to adopt the Common Core Standards to determine what students had learned, and teachers unions disliked his emphasis on the use of data from student tests to evaluate teachers and schools.[3] When Duncan announced his resignation the president of the AFT teachers union said, "there’s no question that the Department of Education’s fixation on charter schools and high-stakes testing has not worked."[4]

One thing we do know, Maxine Waters and Nancy Pelosi were not properly edicated.

Steven great info on Arne Duncan however this blog is about Betsy DeVos. Now everyone knows that the Public Schools needs improvement but Betsy DeVos don't have a clue about what to do help Department of Education, judging by her answers during her vetting process.

Slowly but surely, against all obstruction, President Trump is getting his cabinet.

And the Democrats will pay further for their sins in 2018.

Once his people get in place, Watch what will happen to the middle class both Black and White.

Elizabeth Warren says, "We are the party of opposition and that's our job."