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“Conservatives have long sought to eliminate the department almost from the moment it was established in 1979”
Analyzed on 2026-09-23T01:43:03+00:00 · Last updated 2026-09-23
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Conservatives, though, have long sought to eliminate the department, almost from the moment it was established in 1979.
Extracted from: What is the Department of Education - and can Trump dismantle it? , BBC
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“The U.S. Department of Education has been a subject of political debate since its creation in 1980.“It's the one whose status has been most tenuous from the inception. So the recent calls we've heard to eliminate the Department of Education have really been a constant feature of its history from the moment it was created,” says Professor Martin West, an expert in the politics of K–12 education.”
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