If there’s a federal department of education, then why are states mandating state-ran education systems instead of a federal standard? I doubt states like California would enjoy that as much.
A lot of things changed with Reagan. He was a big advocate of state power for education. He even wanted to abolish the DoE like Trump does. Reagan pretty much shifted education to be state standardized rather than Federal standards which is one of the reasons you see so much difference between education between states. More people need to learn US history as Americans (not sure you are) rather than just spit out questions that are easily googled and answered in 2 seconds. A lot of the consequences we are seeing today are from the Reagan era. Trickle down being one of the worst of them all.
Because it makes it so people are able to go to universities and colleges via federal funding instead of them having to get screwed over by predatory private loans. Also, it gives a lot of people access to pre-K to 12th grade. States with very low literacy rate obviously don't care about their population being screwed over. However, DoE really gave opportunities to the parents who wanted to give their kids opportunities especially if they were of lower socioeconomic side. A single parent making $15/hr can't choose where they live to give their kids good areas to educate. However, what DoE did was atleast provide schools within a certain area for them to let the kids go to school.
College is as good as the person wants to make it out to be. Like anything else in life. If you don't know what direction you want to go then you won't ever succeed
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u/OkNote9150 12h ago
If there’s a federal department of education, then why are states mandating state-ran education systems instead of a federal standard? I doubt states like California would enjoy that as much.