Peter Greene: Trump Is Not Sending Education Back to the States Republicans opposed the creation of the U.S. Department of Education. In 1979, President Jimmy Carter promised the NEA that he would push it through. Republicans fought it but he had the votes, and it was created. While NEA wanted the Department, Albert Shanker of the AFT was against it. He feared that the federal government […] https://dianeravitch.net/2025/....12/04/peter-greene-t
