Congress appropriated to the Department of Education an annual finances of $14 billion and 17,000 staff when establishing the Department of Education. During the 1980 presidential campaign, Gov. Reagan known as for the whole elimination of the U.S. Department of Education, extreme curtailment of bilingual education, and large cutbacks within the federal position in education. However, many see the department as constitutional underneath the Commerce Clause, and that the funding role of the department is constitutional underneath the Taxing and Spending Clause.
Under President George W. Bush, the department primarily focused on elementary and secondary education, increasing its attain through the No Child Left Behind Act...