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Newt Gingrich, as Speaker of the House, was the Republican who enabled the creation of the federal department of education. After that was started, everything w
by landemva 5y ago
Newt Gingrich, as Speaker of the House, was the Republican who enabled the creation of the federal department of education. After that was started, everything went toward the average as measured by standardized tests.
- cafard 5y agoNewt Gingrich was a first-term congressman when the Carter Administration broke up the old Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) into the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services. HEW itself dated from the Eisenhower Administration, but there was an existing Office of Education.