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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TerryMiller" data-source="post: 4344761" data-attributes="member: 7900">Trump has stated that he wants to get rid of the federal Department of Education, and I'm all for that.  With the federal agency, the teacher's unions and others only have to lobby the feds, whereas if that was gone, they would then have to lobby 50 state Departments of Education and even more local school boards.The feds' initial encroachment on public schools was called the school lunch program.  If the schools didn't abide by fed rules, they didn't get money for that program.  Schools did all they could to keep their attendance numbers up.</blockquote>