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Attend an Officer Candid;
Education department in dan
Former opponents
By College Press Service
The Reagan administration's latest budget cut ting attempt
lo abolish the Department of 1 ducation is diawing protest
from many of the same educators who strongly opposed the
ilcpartment's creation nearly si\ \eats ago.
They've changed (heir minds despite watching some ol their
worst fears about the department come tiue since ll)XO
C'ongiess, howevet. hasn't shown much interest in approving
piesidential advisor I dwin Meese's new ctlort to dismantle
the department.
C ON(.RKSS Ml.I I D the administiation's etloit to uink
the department m 1I .
But manv educaiois still icai Reayan's atmnosiiv toward
the depai tinent. t est a led t he same wock he nominated V* i Ilia in
Bennett to become the new s,vi<-iaiv ol education. could
diminish its effectiveness.
"I'm at i aid I he depai I meni's I met ions \ ill 1.1! I be' w cen i he
etacks." said Rov I loops. piesiden; ol S'Mitii Dakota State
I nivcisiu. "| don't !;us; Isc...van's motive* <n this
l iicunisiance.''
( onset \ .11i\in lour ha v. opposed .ei ' i .ili/u. f i via.. 11 ;ot
ptogiams mil' one (.U p.it tmcnt. .ii jiiiii:' ir wi'ul.l incica^c
fedetal iuterfei cikv in school*.
I'M II I III I)epat imcni o| I duration opened in l'>S(i,
education progiam? weie .1 JmmiMci ?. ?.! by I lie I S Depart
nielli ot Health, Iducation and Wcllaic.
lust a week he!010 I'lesidcnt limmy ( aitei signed the hill
creating the depai unetit m Octohei. I e\as ( ongtessman
Ron I'aul sponsored the first pioposal to abolish the
depai tment.
Some educators also opposed creating the depaitmeni. I retting
ij would isolate education politically and make it a convenient
target lor budget-cutters and opponents of federal
education programs.
M any of those tears, of course, have been realized since
then. Yet even some ol the department's staunches! opponents
have changed their tunes.
"I WAS opposed to the move to a department," Hoops
said. "Now I'm equally concerned about dismantling the
department
"The department deserves cabinet-Ionel status although,
originally, we were worried that (separating education Iron
HI-W) would bring it under attack from the right-wing, whicl
has happened under the Reagan administration," said Scot
VVidmeyer of the American federation of Teachers.
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protest neagan pian
"] iDin llie administrative point of view, it max be oka\ to
lose <i eahinet level office," said President William W em ich ol
Michigan's I erris Slate College, "lint it's important that
education have the priinaty focus and prestiye o! a
department
"The U.S. needs an education department to assure that
majoi national policv decisions involving education ate
discussed at the highest level ot governmentsaid Charles
Saunders ot the \nierican ( ouncil on I ducation ( At I i.
"W ithout such a department, education officials lend to i?et
shut out."
>\l NIJI.KS KI Ml Mill K> til.II villi M1 g tile Ml W Uavs
I'tesident I old pioposed cluninating niaioi Icdcial ediRaiinn
benet its.
Hm \\ hen Saundei s v ailed loiicl Hell, then Ml W ' . conunis
sioiu'i ol education, to t;t;d out about liic ladical plan, lkil
said. "'(ico. I'd nevci 1kmi\I ot :ha:."'Saunders said
S.Hinders, though, remains ambiv dent about keepine the
depaitment. "Some davs I think the 1 S. doesn't need one It
vli pctuls on how I wake up in the mot inn;.'. thoueh ultimatcK
it's Ivttei to ii.r c one than not."
"I Niippoit t!ie depai'nient at the current cabinet level
Hecau->(. it piovides an advocacv ioIc lacking wcie the dopattincut
not toevistasat present.said Uav 1 leai don. ptesulent o!
Mooipark ( alii. C oinmunitv C ollegc.
Ill AKDON WOKKII.S the adnnnisii .uion's plan to give
Icderal education pioi'iams to othei cabinet departments
would make education "a stepchild to e;>.h atea with no ma
tor status."
" I hese departments weie established with no othei Iiiik
lions in miiui," lie said. " I hc\ can handle the technical
aspects, hut education isn't a major part ol tlieit
responsibilities."
Lven now, "education is not ol parallel importance with
other cabinet departments," Hoops said. " I he federal
government doesn't define its responsibility. So no one knows
what the government does in education."
Adequate definitions or not. it may lie too late to abolish
the department, Heardon said.
'II RKACiAN wanted to abolish the department. he should
have done it in his first term," he said. "Now the department
i is too well entrenched. Bureaucracy doesn't evaporate. It
i perpetuates itself and expands."
[ And some educators, particularly from private schools, still
aren't sure it should be perpetuated.
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