To continue this week’s unofficial theme, one thing that is demonstrated both by a survey of the history of American education and by frequent discussions here on Home in Henderson is that schools in America are more creatures of politics than anything else.
Ronald Reagan was elected in 1980 with the dismantling of the newly-created Department of Education as part of his platform (created during the Carter administration), and a generation later fellow Republican George W. Bush expands that very same department’s mandate with “No Child Left Behind”, the largest single piece of federal education legislation since the original Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) of 1997, a Clinton-era law.
With each new federal, state, and local election promising to fix education, why is there still ignorance in the world? Let your views on this or anything else be expressed here on our open line.