Check "A Nation At Risk" issued under President Reagan in 1983. The entire Congress knew that US education was in the toilet & not one Admin has fixed the disaster that is the US Education System.
An Open Letter to the American People: A Nation At Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform
https://www.edweek.org/education/an-open-letter-to-the-american-people-a-nation-at-risk-the-imperative-for-educational-reform/1983/04
https://e4e.org/sites/default/files/a_nation_at_risk_1983.pdf
The following is the text of the final report of the National Commission on Excellence in Education, an ...