Sec. 2. Closing the Department of Education and Returning Authority to the States. (a) The Secretary of Education shall, to the maximum extent appropriate and permitted by law, take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Department of Education and return authority over education to the States and local communities while ensuring the effective and uninterrupted delivery of services, programs, and benefits on which Americans rely.
I voted for the Rapist Convicted Felon because I’m a LAW AND ORDER voter and I SUPPORT this even though it’s Illegal!
Your comments never disappoint
But he needs Congressional approval to do so.
Says who
Pretending that the old rules still apply is how Empires fall.
Only if anybody stops him, which is only partially happening right now. Courts are being ignored.
I’m looking forward to Schumer whipping up enough bootlickers on the dem side to pass this in the spirit of cooperation
Crunchy-granola birkenstock-wearing pacifist hippie boomer Democrats versus uneducated inbred heavily armed MAGA Tea Party Republicans. Who will win?
The armed maggots haven’t shot at a person. They don’t know the feeling of actively looking at a neighbor, or anyone who might look like them, and intentionally destroying that human life.
And we need to use that against them.
Edit: I will concede I was wrong. Most are still cowards and won’t do it.
I don’t know if you’re trolling or just stupid; they (two registered Republican voters) tried to assassinate their own candidate, twice while he was running for election… Most of the mass shooters that got notoriety in the past decade were Republican gun owners. GTFO of here with your dumb bullshit
I think Schumer and the other spineless Dems will have no problem bending over and being a submissive bitch for him like they did with the funding.
But although Wells Fargo has more than 200,000 employees, the Department of Education has fewer than 1,500 in its Office of Federal Student Aid.
So it’s more efficient than a bank, BUT needs to be run by an actual bank? How stupid does he think we are?
77,302,580 americans are that stupid…
How stupid does he think we are?
Before or after destroying the Department of Education? The entire reason behind this is that uneducated people don’t know their rights or how the government works, so the GOP can run roughshod over our rights.
It’s white supremacy all the way down. We never excised them from society. We need radiation and chemotherapy for the cancer that evangelicals (christofascists) are.
Congratulations!! This means the average person in America is already too educated. Right!? Right?
Sadly… that is kinda true. Tons of jobs require a college degree that is completely unnecessary. It just a way for companies to support the schools their leadership went to. But of course, that has nothing to do with the department of education.
The far right definitely thinks Americans are too educated…even at the current level of ignorance and stupidity.
I think they do something like “soft secession”. Instead of breaking the federation apart officially, they’re eroding the federation (federal government) to the point where it’s no longer relevant. They talk about “state’s rights”.
Legit should have just let the CSA go after burning them to the ground.
They’re accelerationists. They’re burning the system down so they can build their own in its place.
Was on the radio, some notes:
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The responsibility of FAFSA (which is 2/3 of it’s budget) likely goes to Treasury and honestly I don’t think they can realistically pull that back legally, at least anytime soon. Disability funds supposedly will move somewhere too.
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The DoE itself likely will exist in the same limbo as USAID since legally it requires Congress, and judges can and will challenge illegal moves. That said, I say limbo because USAID may have got people back but empty buildings and ongoing stuff is ruined. Expect that from DoE, even though it shouldn’t be allowed.
My own info, though, is they only provide public schools about 5 to 10% budget on average, and yes, it’s heavily towards rural districts. This likely will have very little impact on blue states, although don’t go celebrating as budgets are already tight in several places and even blue states will cut into education to fund other things like fire relief. Our Blue states are still no where near as good as many European and Asian country educational institutions.
The money from federal grants mostly goes towards vulnerable student populations like special education, English learners, and poverty. So the most vulnerable students will probably feel these cuts the most, unless states step up to address the gaps.
I hope whoever is considering cutting the DoE realizes that among the many, many things they do is nuclear weapons research
I think you’re thinking of the department of energy, not education.
lol I’m too used to DoE referring to Department of Energy I didn’t connect that it’s the same acronym.
The current admin is also attacking the department of energy because they do a lot of climate and renewable energy research. But that’s among many, many other things they do.
This is getting a little more out there, but fuck it, we’re all going to be nervously grasping our crystals and consulting our horoscopes soon enough. If you believe AARO/AATIP, they also contract out research to study recovered UFOs. One of the major points of the congressional UAP hearings in 2023 was claiming that we have multiple recovered vehicles under the domain of the DoD and DoE and that we need to open source the research on them. Not sure I believe them, but it was certainly an allegation I wasn’t expecting.
Yeah, apparently the department of Education is officially ED. So your confusion was natural.
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So I assume all the special ed money in Red states will now just go into a slush fund to accelerate executions, and an amplification of attacks on marginalized groups instead of helping kids/families.
Super embarrassing. Fucking idiots and their followers
The stupidest part of all this is its going to hurt the red states the most. Blue states already have great education
You are assumng that an educated population is a goal.
Fuck the red states. Let em rot.
Sadly a lot of good people still live in red states. I’d prefer them not to suffer because of what they’re “betters” decide for them.
Red states want this.
The way a child wants to stick a fork in an outlet.
The way peasants do what the feudal lord commands.
wouldnt that mean itll affect blue states the most? they cant break whats already broken, but can surely break that which works well
Blue states have the money to deal with the issue on its own.
Ok, so sure, a reasonably large chunk of all states education budget is going away, but for the states that do well, the hole will both be a smaller portion of the overall budget, and easier to make up.
No child left behind testing goes away, so the testing and standards all go away. You can bet the bottom 25 states in education ranking will quietly stop testing and claim they’re doing just great!
It’s the special Ed programs that are really going to catch hell. No dept. of Ed. no enforcement of standards. It will be the easiest portion to cut to save money, and the families left in the lurch will get nothing but thoughts and prayers to fill the gap.
No. Most blue states have adequate taxation to maintain operations without federal funds, and the federal funds go towards enhancements. Actually I’m pretty certain this won’t affect any blue state beyond a headache of having to rearrange budgets. But I also happen to know that a lot of school districts in my state at least anticipated this happening and have taken measures in advance to keep the education unimpeded.
Edit: additionally, most blue states only receive funds from the Dept. of Education in the forms of higher education. This will have a lasting impact on academia, but not basic education, which is far more vital.
This is the information that they don’t hear or that they believe is “fake news”
Can conservatives even get more stupid?
I would have thought voting for a felon rapist traitor who gives tax breaks to the wealthy over an actual prosecutor was rock bottom.
But I guess there is no rock bottom for conservatives.
Only if they go to Jupiter.
The rock bottom is mass murder and wars that kill millions or billions — considering nukes and global warming — up to and including the extinction of the species, and death of the planet.
Sometimes I feel like we deserve it
You might, I don’t associate with them.
With … Earth?
You heard 'em. They ain’t from round 'ere.
You ever hear of the war of northern aggression? How about the traitor of the union Abe Lincoln?
You are gonna hear alot of this in the future
But but…the Republicans are the party of Lincoln!
It’s all to have the state gov’ts use tax money to fund religious schools.
The poorly educated are more susceptible to misinformation and manipulation. This will make the red states redder.
They are already red. What difference does it make?
They will realise how fucked they are once their doctors start treating them with leeches again.
It continues to entrench people and keep congressional seats secured for generations.
It’s one more deposit in their insurance plan.
Remember, he loves the poorly educated.
It turns out the ones indoctrinating the kids have been the conservatives all along.
Fuck school choice vouchers.
And the voucher / charter system is exactly what evangelicals (sorry, christofascists) want, because it strengthens their Western civilization (sorry, white nationalism).
Wow.
I looked at the articles that was expecting for that to happen today, never thought he would actually do it.
Yet more evidence that trump is an agent of Putin and is actively dismantling the United States one piece at a time
It was literally in the playbook and talked about constantly, because it’s about boosting private schools under the guise of parent choice/states rights. Will allow the Right to funnel tons of money into indoctrinating kids and white washing history (more than it already is in the US).
What in the past 3 months gave you the impression that it wouldn’t?
Does this mean schools can now give as many trans rights as they want? State rights?
According to some (now in power):
States have Rights only while the States conform. (See the Governor of Maine’s “I’ll see you in court” to Trump?)
Much like Speech is Free so long as it conforms. (The Washington Post continues to find out.)
Welp, if the main reason not to is out of fear of losing federal funding…
Seems Trumpy has kind of shot himself in the foot on this one.
