The Department of Education through the years: A look at long-term trends of pitiful student performance

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : The department was created to determine policy for, administer and coordinate federal assistance to educational institutions around the country, but has seen opposition since its founding - commonly from Republican lawmakers.
47% : Opponents of the Department of Education, such as Trump, have used such examples of controversial curriculum to argue that parents should be granted more power in their child's learning.
44% : Trump said he is going to dissolve the agency when he assumes office, asking whether the department is crucial in the development of education or if schools would benefit from a more localized education system.
44% : every kid., recently said Trump should establish pathways to redesign the education system rather than bulldozing the entire department.
42% : In its early years, the department made specific requirements when allocating funding to schools, such as requiring higher education institutions to offer a campus drug and alcohol abuse prevention program under the Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act, passed in 1989.
39% : Europe and East Asian countries, which don't use ACT or SAT testing as required by the U.S., usually rank as having higher test scores, comparably. Proponents of a dedicated education agency say federal involvement aids the system, while many critics say it is a waste of taxpayer dollars.
23% : And a decades-long debate on whether individual states should have more control over local school systems, rather than the federal government, has been reignited as Trump prepares to take office.

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