 | Why Our Education System Sucks: Federal Government Involvement!Scotty Starnes | September 13, 2010 at 2:38 PM | Tags: Department of Education, education, Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, ESEA, federal government, Lyndon B. Johnson, No Child Left Behind, President Johnson, The Heritage Foundation, War of Poverty | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/pvnFC-2Dh |
I've written several articles about the government getting involved in our education systems and how the government is dumbing down our children. I've written about the teacher unions only caring about union dues over children's education. Since the government has dug themselves into the education system, our children have dropped from #1 and #2 in Math and Science to today where they don't even crack into the top 20.
Yet, the taxpayers continue to fund the Department of Education while their children are shortchanged. It's time for a change.
Jennifer Marshall reports, via The Heritage Foundation:
In the mid 1960s, education policy took a wrong turn, away from America's founding principles. That was when President Lyndon B. Johnson, as a part of his War on Poverty, created the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA). It was the first major federal foray into local schools.
But the Constitution doesn't provide for a federal role in education, and public schools had traditionally been under the jurisdiction of local authorities.
What's more, Washington's intervention seemed to bring out the worst in education governance: State officials became the middlemen to administer federal funding and bureaucratic bloat followed. Staff at state education agencies doubled in the five years after ESEA became law.
In 1965, ESEA was about 30 pages long. Today ESEA is known as No Child Left Behind, and its prescriptions for American schools run on for almost 600 pages.
After multiple reauthorizations, the law has accumulated program after program to intervene in everything from English as a second language to after-school care. Meanwhile, federal education spending has tripled, while student achievement has generally stagnated.
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