according to the center for american progress. they write the department of education supports numerous, mostly small grant programs that serve niche purposes. many of the programs should be eeliminated, including the niche niche program academy for american history and civics. history is a niche program. we are global now. we the people program on constitution and bill of rights. why would you want to construct anybody? civic education. constitution or bill of rights. who needs it? some of the programs they say are good. they're good. here is explain or eliminating the we the people program which teaches students about our constitution. "the program has had a positive evaluation." yet the center for civic education curricula and material served just a small number of students. don't expand it. obama administration proposes elimination of the program in the fiscal year 2010 budget because it's too small to have any impact on history