The Department of Education was then-President Jimmy Carter’s gift to teacher’s unions. It has grown into a centralized behemoth of forced unfunded mandates and gifts to preferred beneficiaries. In other words, it is completely politicized. Conservatives are considering a policy proposal that would dismantle the U.S. Department of Education and return K–12 and higher-education authority […] The post Dismantling Jimmy Carter’s Gift to Teacher’s Unions: The Dept. of Education appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.