TheHome School Legal Defense Foundation, in particular, has done research on the toxic effect the ED has had onpublic schoolachievement. The Foundation found that since the Department of Education was created, per-pupil spending has nearly doubled, while SAT scores have dropped by 35 points, a...
More than a century prior, President Andrew Johnson’s administration created an Education Department during the Reconstruction Era in 1867. By 1869, the agency was all but shuttered. Congress shrunk its funding and the department merged with the Department of Interior, becoming the Bureau of Educa...
TheAttorneyGeneralwasinitiallyaone-person,part-timejob,establishedbytheJudiciaryActof1789,butthisgrewwiththebureaucracy.AtonetimetheAttorneyGeneralgavelegaladvicetotheU.S.CongressaswellasthePresident,butthishadstoppedby1819onaccountoftheworkloadinvolved.In1867,theU.S.HouseCommitteeontheJudiciary,ledbyCongressman...
The Town of Cicero, or Cicero Township as it was called back then, was incorporated in 1867. The Fire Department that serviced Cicero Township was actually created before that date and responded to fire calls from ten (10) different stations and serviced an area that was six (6) times the...
Although pain is a leading cause of admission to the emergency department, oligoanalgesia is a common, deeply inexcusable phenomenon that should be vigorously addressed through research, the education of healthcare professionals, and the establishment of appropriate treatment pathways. Emergency departments...