Posted: Nov 22, 2011 2:24 pm
HughMcB wrote:Ihavenofingerprints wrote:Can someone explain to me why some republican candidates want to close the department of education? That would be considered lunacy here. (but I understand we are very different to the US)
Get the federal government out of Education.mrjonno wrote:Could some American please explain what 'leave it to the states' actually means.
Let the governing being done on the State (not Federal) level. This is a large principle of the founding of the country to begin with. To have autonomous states with the exception of a few key (unavoidable) federal entities.
But it is not the 18th centuary and education should have the same level all over the country.