>>1
Why should we keep the Department of Education around?
Every sensible nation has a national department for education, and more often than not, it actually improves their standards.
When it spends about 2 trillion dollars of combined State, and Federal spending...each year!!!?
With funding like that, the US should be close at the top. Unfortunately, it doesn't work that way. Endlessly throwing money at something isn't going to necessarily make it better. The Department of Education needs to be completely reorganized, not abolished.
Educational results stopped increasing sometime during the 70s yet spending continues to increase
Then obviously something had happened before that time. It might have something to do with the fact that the Department of Education became a separate department from the
Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in 1979. If it's really $2 trillion dollars in spending, and there's no adequate results from that amount, then as I've stated before, the department needs to be entirely reorganized from the ground-up.
2 things can be done, if we're going to spend money then it should be on research to improve education, instead of just pork spending.
That is true. Perhaps look at the education models employed by other countries, and research how their education is properly functioning with something that doesn't even take a tenth of what the US spends on its education.
Secondly we should probably cut down on immigration from people with low intelligence and stop encouraging those with low intelligence to reproduce.
You're going to have trouble convincing a lot of people on this point.
>>4
Then how come every other Western nation worth its salt has an education department that doesn't shit out endless amounts of money for mediocre results?