The long road to how our educational system has become so bad has been guided by the ever-encroaching part that the federal government has played in it in the last century.<br />
<br />
The answer to solving the education problem is to get the government out of it and to abolish the U.S. Department of Education.<br />
<br />
For an interesting opinion on the issue by George Will from www.detnews.com click on the following story link:<br />
<br />
<br />
http://www.detnews.com/article/20111003/OPINION03/110030308/1008/OPINION01/Education-no-place-for-presidents<br />
<br />