Date: April 30, 1979
Subject: Create Education Department
Description: Passage of the bill to establish a separate cabinet-level Department of Education. Creation of this new bureaucracy institutionalized federal involvement in education at the expense of state and local control.
Result: Bill Passed, 72-21
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