Re: "The View" Host Floats Bizarre Theory Why Trump Would Ax Education Dept

shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:

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The question I would ask is what is an area of state jurisdiction.

One turns to Article I of the Constitution in which Congressional powers
are defined (the delegated powers of the Tenth Amendment), and the
powers reserved to the states (except for those prohibited to the
states), also in the Tenth Amendment. That would be all other power to
make domestic policy.

It's not unreasonable to argue that the US government, along with the
state and local governments have a vested interest in an educated
population. Especially given our modern civilization where technology
is becoming more prevalent.

You conflated a reasonableness argument with a federalism argument. You
have two questions.

btw, the most intrusive national policy was No Child Left Behind Act of
2001, which teachers universally hated with its massive paperwork and
standardized testing burden, both of which took significant amount of
time away from educating children.

But by all means, if your objective is the care and feeding of
bureaucrats, then ever more intrusive federal authorizing legislation
is the way to go. There is little evidence that massive federal and
state spending in education raises test scores, or when there is
research into better ways to teach, it gets implemented.

The next Congressional school bill should be called the National Handwaiving
Act of 2026.

You know what successfully educated more rural black kids in the South
than anything else? The "Rosenwald" schools, a dirt-cheap program
without supporting a massive bureaucracy.

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