Aside from a short‐lived data collection entity, before 1980 there was no Department of Education. Why did it come into existence then? What were the public policy reasons? What were the political reasons? What were the primary drivers behind the department’s creation?
40 Years of the U.S. Department of Education: Why Was It Created?
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