67,200 Million $ for the Department of Education!?

Question

Why have we not gotten rid of this department yet, when it costs 67,200 Million per year, and in its own words is only for...
1.Establish policies reguarding federal financial aid, administers, and monitors those funds.
2. Colects and oversees research on americas schools, and gives this info out.
3. "Identifies major problems" in schools,and "focuses national attention on them".
4. Enforces federal anti descrimination policies reguarding school and loans

The same ed.gov site then ends with
("Under the Tenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution: "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." Nothing specific is said about education in the Constitution; therefore it falls outside federal authority.")

WHY DO WE HAVE THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION STILL!

Boss H, what you said apparently the demartment does not do. I listed EVERY thing they say they do. Setting standards is not one of them.

Read
http://www.ed.gov/about/overview/focus/what_pg3.html#doesnot
In creating the Department of Education, Congress made clear its intention that the secretary of education and other Department officials be prohibited from exercising "any direction, supervision, or control over the curriculum program of instruction, administration, or personnel of any educational institution, school, or school system."

Answer 1

Becasue without the department of education (ministry of propaganda), kids would not hear about global warming, muliculturalism, the united nations, and their responsibilities as future global citizens.

Answer 2

the dep. of preparation is a extensive waste of supplies that for the period of no way make it to the community colleges. people act like public preparation might cave in without it, yet in point of fact that ninety%+ of all investment for preparation comes from the community and state tiers. The DE is barely 27 years previous, and we had colleges formerly then. extremely, the DE has been transforming into at a quickly %., and that i haven't seen one little bit of progression in my community colleges different than what replaced into supported and funded via the community college board. Nationalizing community concerns is a extensive thank you to waste performance. end the DE, deliver the money decrease back to the universities.

Answer 3

It gives Margaret Spellings a budget that allows her to be away on travel 90% of the time.
You don't want her sticking around actually implimenting policy now, do you ?
Now my pet peeve: WHY DO WE HAVE AN ELECTORAL COLLEGE ? Do we stil need to protect the slave states? Sorry for the non sequitor.

Answer 4

because that is where standards are defined so one class at one school isn't completely different at another, causing people with the same educations to have great disparities in knowledge.
It makes the employment process easier(costing less money to the employer), and ensures that everyone who has a degree actually has pretty similar knowledge.
If this wasn't the case, employers would have to spend huge sums of money training people with college degrees for stuff that was not taught to them in accredited schools.

Answer 5

Yeah...I guess the money is better spent subsidizing the theft put on by the oil companies...

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=1841989

Answer 6

Possibly to TRY to make sure people know how to spell, or at least use spell check, and proper grammar. Obviously, they still need to identify those in need and help them.

Answer 7

People need jobs.