The Chronicle of Higher Education

Why We Should Spare the Education Department — for Now

June 26, 2018

Macalester College (MN) President Brian Rosenberg writes:  By the standards of the Trump administration, the proposal to merge the Education and Labor Departments is surprisingly pedestrian. Republican presidents and legislators have been attempting to eliminate the Education Department since its creation by Congress, with the support of President Jimmy Carter, in 1979.  The proposal will, of course, go nowhere, since its next stop is Congress, where most proposals, good and bad, go to die. Still, it is worth considering whether the idea has any merit.

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