About 50% of the 4,400 workers at the Department of Education are about to be laid off. About 2100 termination notices are being sent out. President Trump wants to eliminate the entire department, which sounds like a great idea to me as an educator.
It’s sad for the people who lose their jobs, but they will receive a generous severance. It has to be done.
The sweeping layoffs will begin this evening. Their offices will be closed this evening and tomorrow.
President Trump has allegedly prepared an Executive Order directing Sec. Linda McMahon to begin the process of dismantling the department.
Employees were told to take their laptops and vacate the building at 6 pm.
President Trump wants to return power to the people and the communities.
The Center for Education Reform Report
“It’s an important and necessary move,” said CER Founder and CEO Jeanne Allen. “Billions of dollars spent on poorly conceived programs has caused state and local education agencies to mushroom, putting record numbers of administrators and non-instructional staff to work managing the thousands of rules and restrictions on American education, even as student enrollment has declined. It’s pure insanity and it makes life worse for teachers, and counterproductive for students.”
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“It’s become a cash cow for every university, non-profit and research institution that has time and money to apply for grants and contracts; many of which do nothing to support students and do everything to counter great education for all students. Ending incessant federal interference will free up state and local leaders to foster more opportunities to give schools and educators true flexibility and innovation to address the needs of students, wherever they are educated,” added Allen. This move also paves the way for ensuring that remaining federal program dollars not restricted by statute are directed to follow students where they are educated, regardless of the type of school.
The Department of Education will terminate 131 duplicate and unnecessary programs.
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We need to stop all Federal government student loans. Also, tax the endowments of the leftist wealthy Universities.
The unconstitutional DOE needs to be shut down forever immediately. The majority of employees are socialists, communists, and degenerates. They should get no better severance than the typical private-sector worker. If they complain publicly take away their severance. Time for them to get off their butts and learn to code or stay at home and learn how to make men a better American cheese samich.
There are many problems here.
It took me 20 years to pay off my SLSC/AES loans. I did not have rich parents like Donald Trump! I was charged 100-percent interest and the idiots even had the stupidity to thank me by sending me a letter verifying that I paid back 100-percent more than I originally took out. Needless to say, the Mafia, does not even go there, usually. Criminal. I should have taken a loan from the local MOB!
So, what was going on?
I still wonder!
SLSC the original federal loan I took was capped at 3-percent or something; but if you could not afford to make the payments , not uncommon after graduating, then you got “defaulted” ( never missed payment) to another loan company ( most likely, a private banker: AES) and they Jack up your Interest Rates and Payment Duration to the 20-year Plan! This should not be Legal.
The Whole Can Of Worms “STINKS” and I am all for an Overhaul; but to Just Close the Entire Department? Reckless! Lots of Kids could get kicked out of School, due to this and that
s not right. However, what is going to replace the Department of Education? Corproate MEGA Banker? Youll get ABUSED even Worse, America!States do not have the Budget to handle this Catastrophe! And, Just so you all know, in Canada, you get 4 years government paid education. So… Kids … GO TO CANADA! Dont become a Slave to Corporate America.
THINK MORE!
Well, I see you are back, Echo, Anonymous, Lucifer et. al. There are plenty of people who received their college degrees for a lot less. Just because you weren’t smart is on you alone.
Education is very expensive; because it is all Corporatized. There are shareholders to appease! Hungry Demons, Got to be Fed.
It’s only expensive for those who don’t know better.
Shut Up, Troll.
Echo doesn’t change its spots.
The student loan program definitely needs revamping. I was privy to a friend’s student loan statement. She had at least 5 separate loans at various interest rates. Some rates were extremely high. Not understanding the way the process works, she’s making monthly payments however her principal isn’t being reduced by much, if at all. The payments are being applied to the interest, which is how the program works. The way they structured the payments, her loan won’t be paid off for decades, and the amount received will triple what she borrowed. I wonder how many people are in the same situation?
Everyone
And, what about all those Federal student loans and grants. Is this all going to be corportized by corporate takeover so people can pay 100-percent interest to the corporate gods?