Kinda starts to sound like the closing act of a decades-long death spiral. Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?
Oh the irony
~ George W. Bush, during a campaign speech in South Carolina (2000)
That particular question had probably not been asked much before, but it's been asked more frequently ever since.
> states and local districts should make education policy, not the U.S. government.
It would be a breath of fresh air for a philosophy like this to be implemented but you would have to fire everyone in the department of education and start over to actually get anything done.