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Federal role in education has a long history

  • Written by Dustin Hornbeck, Ph.D. Student in Educational Leadership and Policy, Miami University
imageThough many of Thomas Jefferson's educational policies were never passed during his lifetime, they became the foundation of federal education today.Portrait by Mather Brown / Wikimedia Commons

President Donald Trump has directed the United States Department of Education to evaluate whether the federal government has “overstepped its legal...

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