Talk:United States Department of Education

message: Can someone explain how the ED is constitutional?  I was under the impression that the 10th amendment limited federal powers to those explicitly laid out in the constitution.  Stuff like mints, regulating currency, post offices, congress, etc...  but doesnt mention regulating education which, according to the constitution, should be left up to the states, along with everything else not explicitly listed.  So how can acts get passed that allow for a department of education?
anybody know how this works?
72.174.2.252 10:10, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: You remarks on conservatism are incorrect.  Conservatives today are actually opposed to government intervention and would leave education up to the states, as the original poster said was originally in the Constitution.  --141.157.17.204 (talk) 00:23, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Like many other things the federal government does, the DoED is held to be constitutional under Justice Wm Brennan's infamous Rule of Five (which Wikipedia's article on Brennan does not mention, of course). NCdave (talk) 11:55, 26 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Constitutional

message: Needs bias check, sources cited.  Current history seems more focused on an opinion.  A historical timeline would be useful. Factician 14:55, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I will remove the tag because I haven't seen any further comment on the talk page since your comment.  :I added sources and changed that section to read "Opposition" rather than "History" and also created a separate Establishment section.--Gloriamarie 19:17, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for contributing the "establishment" section. It was the closest thing to what I was looking for, an idea how the US managed education compared to other countries, and how it managed education before creation of ED. 199.184.238.224 (talk) 23:20, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: History Section Needs Updating

message: What does the Ed Dept do? And why? Each state has many teachers and people with PhDs to figure stuff out. 
How is the budget spent? It is $10,000,000 per employee. 68.180.38.41 (talk) 08:59, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: This article doesn't clearly explain what the department does. Needs work. Let99 (talk) 05:18, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Purpose?

message: I added a section about the organization of the department, but it's just a list right now. It could probably use some definitions.
JordanLyons (talk) 00:51, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Organization

message: Has anyone else noticed that, based on the information provided under the heading of "Establishment," it looks like George W. Bush established the DOE? Shuldn't "Establishment" cover the actual history of the Department, not just what Bush did with it a year ago? User: Snyrt  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.91.145.123 (talk) 15:08, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, this was caused by vandalism from over a year ago; I've fixed it. Graham87 10:01, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Establishment section

message: In this section there is stat that the department grew by 69.6% between 2002 and 2004.  The referenced article states:  "The Department of Education itself has grown by 69.6 percent between 2002 and 2004: from $46,282 million in FY2002 to $60,600 million in FY2004."  That looks to me like 30.9% growth, not 69.6%.  Unless someone can show me why this is OK, I'm going to remove the stat.
Delius1967 (talk) 18:12, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: No Child Left Behind

message: I've added the alternate abbreviation DoED to the opening sentence. That abbreviation was already mentioned in the Etymology section, and it is used both internally at the Dept. of Education and externally as an abbreviation for Dept. of Education. NCdave (talk) 11:37, 26 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Abbreviations 

message: Substituted at 09:36, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment comment

message: The article states that “Once in office, President Reagan succeeded significantly to reduce the budget.” While this NY Times article claims he called for increase. Can someone check it? —JTojnar (talk) 18:14, 5 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reagan’s reduction of the budget. 

message: The flat statement of a $68B budget is rather deceptive, since the dept spends over $170B in grants, as one can see from the final table here:  https://www2.ed.gov/about/overview/budget/history/sthisbypr16.pdf  That $68B seems maybe to just be the cost of running the dept.  At the least the amount of grants should be mentioned.  peter (talk) 17:41, 21 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Budget

message: Many of the statistics and details in the article were out of date and have been updated. Previous versions said, "The U.S. Department of Education oversees the nation's education system." This is misleading as the article notes, "Unlike the systems of most other countries, education in the United States is highly decentralized." 
Edits made in March 2022 were removed as the content was not supported by the cited texts. The user who made the edits has since been blocked by Wiki admins. 
The History section is missing some key details that need to be included at a future date.
EdHistory101 (talk) 02:53, 28 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Update for 2022 

message: — Assignment last updated by Bmitch18 (talk) 04:43, 13 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Information Literacy and Scholarly Discourse