Michele Bachmann Open To Eliminating Department Of Education 9/5/11

"Because the Constitution does not specifically enumerate nor does it give to the federal government the role and duty to superintend over education that historically has been held by the parents and by local communities and by state governments. To put that in to the federal government as we saw with the Department of Education in the late 1970s, has eviscerated the Constitutional that the control of education truly lies with the parents. That's just one example," Presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) said at Sen. Jim DeMint's "Palmetto Freedom Forum" on Sept 5th.

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