If the Department of Education was abolished wouldn't that make NCLB and RTTP unenforceable?

[bluestateguy]

Maybe there is something good about abolishing the Education Department. Without it, NCLB and RTTP would be much harder, if not impossible, to enforce. Indeed, without a DOE it would be harder for the feds to mandate right wing social engineering on our schools.

I am sad to say that the conservatives may have had a point when they argued long ago that a federal department of education gives the feds more of an interest in meddling, and that is surely what has happened with NCLB and RTTP. Ronald Reagan was a proponent of abolishing DOE, but Bush the Younger had the party abandon this policy in the 2000's when it became clear that the DOE could be used to mandate top down changes to public schools that would advance right wing goals.

The federal government seems loath to just give anyone money without there being some sort of rules or pre-conditions. In an ideal world the feds would just give states and local governments their public school money and just get out of the way, but that will not happen.

In any case, I'm torn, abolition of DOE is now an idea I am really taking seriously.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

1. Not at all

The DOE was once part of Dept of Health, Education, and Welfare, now called Health and Human Services. I would assume it would take those duties back if DOE was eliminated.

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. No