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.
This dude is disgusting a traitor and by far one of the most vile men to walk this earth all he’s missing is millions of dead bodies like his Nazi idol.
America is disgusting.
Where’s all that talk about “my 2nd amendment rights” wake up America you’re a fascist country now. Use your guns before it’s too late.
In case you missed it: most of the people crying about their 2nd amendment rights and duties are the people that applaud this. The rest is aware that making use of their right would mean a civil war with former group.
Coming for guns will be right after medicaid and social security.
Congratulations!! This means the average person in America is already too educated. Right!? Right?
The far right definitely thinks Americans are too educated…even at the current level of ignorance and stupidity.
The stupidest part of all this is its going to hurt the red states the most. Blue states already have great education
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.
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?
It’s all to have the state gov’ts use tax money to fund religious schools.
Only if they go to Jupiter.
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
The poorly educated are more susceptible to misinformation and manipulation. This will make the red states redder.
This is the information that they don’t hear or that they believe is “fake news”
wouldnt that mean itll affect blue states the most? they cant break whats already broken, but can surely break that which works well
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.
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.
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.
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).
My God, this is beyond sad.
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.
This isn’t something Trump would even care about. He’s being handled very well this time around.
Remember Rick Perry wanted to close the department of Education as well. It’s been on the Republican checklist for a while now.
It’s p25.
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.
I hope whoever is considering cutting the DoE realizes that among the many, many things they do is nuclear weapons research
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.
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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.
The Department of Education was established by Congress. Elimination of it will take an act of Congress. This man is the biggest puppet ever.
Why do you think they’ll follow any sort of law or rule? Legitimate question.
They can tell everyone they’re fired, change the locks/codes. Shutdown emails etc. and there is literally nobody that will stop them.
Except us with weaponry.
the 2th amendment existing was no accident.
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”.
They’re accelerationists. They’re burning the system down so they can build their own in its place.
Legit should have just let the CSA go after burning them to the ground.
This will be in the courts by the end of next week marking it unconstitutional
And then nothing will be done about it.
Super embarrassing. Fucking idiots and their followers
