The article discusses concerns over the potential dismantling of the Department of Education by Team Trump, emphasizing that its creation was initially influenced by the Ku Klux Klan. Philip Hamburger highlights the Klan's aim to enforce public schooling to unify American values and counter perceived foreign and religious threats. The article also touches on President Trump’s controversial suggestions regarding Palestinian refugees, arguing for their citizenship in host countries, and criticizing Arab states for their role in maintaining Palestinian statelessness.
"Those panicking over Team Trump's desire to dismantle the Department of Education should recall that one of the leading advocates of creating such a department was the Ku Klux Klan."
"The Klan sought to send every child to public school to 're-Americanize' the nation, fearing that foreigners and religious diversity, especially Catholicism, threatened Protestantism."
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