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=== Department of Education ===
 
=== Department of Education ===
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The Department of Education (DoE) imposes federal standards and requirements on public schools throughout our Nation, and has been controversial for decades.  Many conservatives have called for it to be eliminated, because education is primarily a matter of local control.  Nothing in the U.S. Constitution authorizes the federal government to control education.
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=== Department of Energy ===
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Yet there it is, spending $68 billion a year.<ref>http://www2.ed.gov/about/overview/budget/index.html</ref>  The Department of Education proposed, adopted, and implemented regulations for the No Child Left Behind Act (which were largely unsuccessful, and which many states have obtained exemptions from key parts of).  Since 2010 the Department of Education's has been promoting "Common Core Standards," which is a set of educational standards developed by liberal organizations for public schools around the Nation to follow.<ref>http://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/statement-national-governors-association-and-state-education-chiefs-common-core-</ref>
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Needless to say, Governor Rick Perry had no trouble in the Republican presidential debate earlier this year remembering the Department of Education as the first federal department he would eliminate if he were elected president.  The one he failed to remember was the Energy Department, which has interfered with the drilling for oil in Texas and elsewhere.
    
=== Commerce Department ===
 
=== Commerce Department ===
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