Christ. If you can't connect the dots of something that isn't necessarily a 1:1/literal equation, whether you like it or not, you're lost. But OK: she put those things together because back 25 years before Andrew Jackson's Department of Education was elevated to a Cabinet-level agency after consolidating disparate and chaotic elements of other agencies in 1979, people had to sue states for desegregated schools. Brown v Board of Education, heard of it? Rhetorical, and see my comment immediately above. It happened in 1954, and it was a (unanimous) Supreme Court decision that confirmed segregation in schools illegal (unconstitutional). States' pre- and post-Brown disregard of the Constitution - and a time when children and children did have to be escorted to their rightful school by Federal officers - is one factor of why DoE became the overarching Federal agency it did - all of which pointed up the necessity for certain Federal agencies to be able to lay down and enforce certain requirements applicable throughout the United States...because states enforcing unconstitutional laws is bad. It can be debated whether DoE executes well, or overreaches, or whether education should be a Cabinet-level agency, but Idgaf what your opinion of it is, you should have been able to comprehend the connection being made - or at least have been curious enough to go look it up if you're going to try to slam the "dumb bitch" who mentioned it.
