Department of Education In 1979 the Department took on a huge change in mandates, function, and ultimately crushed the Education system in America 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. —Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution The U.S. Constitution gives Congress no authority whatsoever to collect taxes for, fund, or operate schools. Therefore, under the Tenth Amendment, education should be entirely a state and local matter For more than 200 years, the federal government had left education to those who were in the best position to oversee it- State local government and Parents Richard L. Lyman, president of Stanford University, who testified at the congressional hearings on forming the new department, pointed out that ‘‘the two-hundred-year-old absence of a Department of Education is not the result of simple failure during all that time. On the contrary, it derives from the conviction that we do not want the kind of educational system that such arrangements produce.’’ The department’s annual budget has continually increased, from $14.5 billion in 1979 to $47.6 billion in 2002 businessinsider/pisa-rankings-2013-12?utm_content=buffera97e8&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=buffer
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