By a margin of four votes, the House of Representatives has chosen to establish a federal Department of Education. The Senate already had passed a bill to the same end. Now the only chance for averting this vast boondoggle is irreconcilable differences in the Senate-House conference committee which must endeavor to combine the two pieces of legislation.
“The best thing that could happen to President Carter’s proposal for a Department of Education would be for Congress to bury it.” Who wrote that line—Russell Kirk? Nay, not so: the author is an editorial writer for the Washington Post.
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