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Feb 7, 2017 · Jimmy Carter's Debt to a Teachers Union. Public education existed well before 1980, but an unpopular President Carter wanted the nation's largest union on his side before an election....
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It began operating on May 4, 1980, having been created after the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare was split into the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services by the Department of Education Organization Act, which President Jimmy Carter signed into law on October 17, 1979.
- $68 billion (2016)
- October 17, 1979; 43 years ago
- 3912 (2018)
- Federal government of the United States
Oct 19, 2004 · Last Sunday, Oct. 17, 2004, marked the 25th anniversary of the day President Carter signed into law the bill creating the U.S. Department of Education. The story of how that vote came to be...
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Sep 23, 2015 · It wasn’t Jimmy Carter who launched the first Department of Education: it was Andrew Johnson, and the year was 1867. The department was small, ambitious and astonishingly short-lived....
On October 17, the same year, Carter signed the Department of Education Organization Act into law, establishing the United States Department of Education. Carter expanded the Head Start program with the addition of 43,000 children and families, while the percentage of nondefense dollars spent on education was doubled.
Jimmy Carter, Department of Education Organization Act Statement on Signing S. 210 Into Law. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/248025
