Department of Education Perfidy

The 10th Amendment to the United States Constitution leaves the power to create schools and a system for education in the hands of individual states, rather than the central national government. This started to erode when the Feds got their foot in the door via the Civil Rights Act of 1964. One step led to another, and the feds started the Department of Education (DOE) in 1979. Today, 19% of US K-12 public education expenditures are made by the federal government, school lunches is a big DOE outlay. By allowing the feds into K-1s public education, notwithstanding its constitutional proscription, American parents bought themselves the whirlwind as the feds hold local school boards hostage by withholding payments to local schools when US government preferred social policy or preferred curricula is not instituted.