Obama is already breaking the new education lawBy Washington Examiner • 5/25/16 12:01 AM
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/obama-is-already-breaking-the-new-education-law/article/2592196#.V0WYfDlP9nQ.twitterCongress writes the laws, as every boy and girl learns in school, and the president enforces them. But what's the point of this fundamental constitutional process if the executive thinks he or she can simply make up the law as he or she goes along?
President Obama has done this many times. He unilaterally rewrote his own signature law, Obamacare, by fiat on several occasions to make it less unworkable. He exploited obsolete portions of the old No Child Left Behind law to extort concessions from states whom he wanted to adopt other favored policies. Want a waiver from this impossible-to-meet requirement? Just sign your state up for Common Core.
History is repeating itself again, once more in the area of education. Last year, Congress went to considerable trouble crafting and passing a consensus bill to replace the outdated and therefore unworkable No Child Left Behind. President Obama signed it at Christmas time, hailing the bipartisan bill as a miracle.
One of the bill's goals was to reduce federal meddling in education, which remains a state and local issue. But Obama is ignoring the law that the president signed, and is attempting instead to write implementation rules that claim powers specifically forbidden in the statutory language.
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Alexander said last week that when he confronted the department, "they responded with a lot of gobbledy-gook." This week, he confronted Education Secretary John King in a hearing, telling him, "The plain fact of the matter is that the law specifically says you cannot do it."
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