The Trump administration has begun drafting an executive order to kick off the process of eliminating the Department of Education. This is one of Donald Trump’s campaign promises.
According to CNN, the move would come in two parts. The order would direct the Secretary of Education to create a plan to diminish the department through executive action.
CNN stated that Trump would also push for Congress to pass legislation to end the department, as those working on the order acknowledge that shuttering the department would require Congress’ involvement.
The president said Tuesday he wants his secretary of Education pick, Linda McMahon, to “put herself out of a job.”
As a former educator, I wouldn’t miss it. DoE mostly passed down mandates without funding, and many were not a good idea for every school. They were one size fits all.
They are also intimately tied to bureaucracy and unions. Under Democrats, the government has used it to further far-left agendas.
However, they were responsible for the mandate to educate the handicapped in the 1975 Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). That was one good thing they did, and much needed. I heard that children in wheelchairs were turned away from schools.
A small office with power over basics would be fine with me, but it will inevitably grow back to the behemoth it is. Federal education with money attached is power, and education is a great way to indoctrinate children. In the hands of a bad government, it’s a disaster. If it is in state and local hands, it will at least reflect the people who live there. They would have control of the money and their children’s education. What do you think?
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Before the ’70s there was no Federal DOE, the individual States ran their respective school systems and it worked fine. America had top schools and was considered the best education system in the world. I was born and raised in NYC in the ’50s and ’60s and the schools I went to were wonderful; no political agendas, just academics – with art, music, physical education; it was great. MAGA, we can do it.
President Trump.
Whatever Deep State cancer you leave, no matter how small, will eventually metastasize and eventually kill our nation body.
Yes, just have to kill it all!
I am unaware of any successful federal department. The department of energy resulted in much higher energy prices and lower supplies, the exact opposite of the stated intention. The department of education resulted in lower student performance. The FBI resulted in lower security. The feds had no right to take education over from the states.
The number’s don’t lie. Billions have been spent on education and what do we have to show for it? More than half of 8th graders aren’t proficient in math or English. In some blue cites and states, the number’s are much worse. Public schools place more emphasis is on sports, than education. But a dumb downed populous is the Democrat plan. If we lose the children, we lose the country.
And that’s the Commie plan, get the children first.