Mike Lee, Utah’s new Tea-Party Senator, tells us that: “…Congress has no business regulating our nation’s public education system, and has created problems whenever it has attempted to do so.”
Senator Lee … not sure where your founding fathers did their foundering, but mine …..but mine recognized the need for a an educated citizenry even before the Revolution.
1635 .. founded Boston Latin School, a PUBLIC school and my own alma mater.
1785 Land Ordinance of 1785 and the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 — to create and maintain public schools in the new territories.
1800 Thomas Jefferson begins setting up the University of Virginia
During the Civil War, Congress passed the Morrill Act, resulting in the University of Illinois, the University of California, and 74 other institutions. Signed by Abraham Lincoln, this Act used the same land grant policy for higher education as was used for public schools.
I guess Senator Lee must have had the same foundering fathers as Glen Beck. You know the same ones who defeated the British so we could end slavery here?