By: Scott Yenor
In 1982, President Ronald Reagan proposed dismantling the Department of Education, an agency barely two years old. This was not as radical a move for his administration as it may sound to modern ears. Americans were not accustomed to such a massive role for the federal government in education, which had always been a local and state function. Voters never approved of President Carter establishing the agency, and elected Reagan in a historic landslide to shrink the size of government— and eliminate ED.
