ELI5 What is the bennefit of the Dept of Education shutting down and the power resting with the states? What is the downside?

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ELI5 What is the bennefit of the Dept of Education shutting down and the power resting with the states? What is the downside? - Lemmy.World

Lemmy

“Leave it to the states”

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You start out in 1954 by saying, “removed, removed, removed.” By 1968 you can’t say “removed”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “removed, removed.”

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