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.
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.
good, now we can finally indebt 8 year olds too not just college students. they had it too good for too long
–trump, probably
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.
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?
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.
77,302,580 americans are that stupid…
But he needs Congressional approval to do so.
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.
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.
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.
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).
The stupidest part of all this is its going to hurt the red states the most. Blue states already have great education
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.
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.
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
It’s all to have the state gov’ts use tax money to fund religious schools.
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?
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.
The poorly educated are more susceptible to misinformation and manipulation. This will make the red states redder.
Red states want this.
The way a child wants to stick a fork in an outlet.
Because US Americans are too damn educated today and we need them to be less educated /s
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
What in the past 3 months gave you the impression that it wouldn’t?
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.
Remember, he loves the poorly educated.
My God, this is beyond sad.
Super embarrassing. Fucking idiots and their followers
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
I think you’re thinking of the department of energy, not education.
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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This will be in the courts by the end of next week marking it unconstitutional
And then nothing will be done about it.
