the DOE has NOTHING to do with education - it doesn’t even teach a single student.
The way to attack it? Student debt. the DOE has literally made millions of Americans debt slaves to their government. And this is not regular debt, this is debt that can NOT be discharged in bankruptcy. You are indentured slaves to the US Government, people. Is that what “the land of the free” is all about?
However did we survive before the DOE was created in 1980? We must have been a nation of knuckle dragging, ignorant dullards.
>>a group of self-proclaimed “progressives,”
I can’t take a person seriously who says this. The Progressive Movement has existed for over a century as a growing cancer eating away at the USA. We have a obligation to educate ourselves on this enemy and not to wish them away with quotation marks.
It’s like saying that the red spot on your skin is just a mole, but some Doctor keeps calling it a “cancer”.
Another bloated bureaucracy that needs to be left to the individual states.
Yeah the DOE does a great job training teachers with boring PD taught by crusty people who make $200,000 a year and have never stepped in a classroom.
Teachers’ unions as well. Remember the NYC teacher’s union leader who said that he’d only be concerned about the good of the kids when they started paying union dues?
I saw that coming. And, of course, they claim that the cuts are to pay for tax cuts for the rich. The State and local governments can pay for their schools with the savings of their citizens not having to pay the federal government.
Wow I thought Donald Trump was not a conservative—
Shut
It
Down
Ron Paul made this a Key Part of his Platform in 2008
Property taxes are supposed to pay for schools and education. Where I grew up. 80% of all property taxes were used for education, and that education was notorious for being 2+ years ahead of the national average. When states have to funnel their tax dollars to the central government, not much is left for education. From each according to his ability......right? /not!
Trump’s policies and plans are likely to force a whole lotta change and a shuffling of the cards. We need that.
Eliminating the Department of Education would certainly result in different approaches to educating our children. I thought liberals would embrace such diversity.
which he said would fix the education system already fixed by the 2001 GW Bush and Ted Kennedy legislation called “No Child Left Behind,”
which was supposed to fix a system supposedly already fixed by a 1994 piece of federal legislation called “Goals 2000,”
which was supposed to fix a system already fixed by “America 2000,”
which was a 1991 response during the Bush administration to a 1983 federal report on education called “A Nation at Risk,
which was published a full four years after Jimmy Carter first fixed the nation’s public school system by establishing a cabinet-level Department of Education in 1979.
The Department of Education is a useless redundancy.
It provides no multiplier of any kind to the education of a child. More than anything else, it’s bureaucracy soaks up money that otherwise could go to states or localities in the form of bloc grants.
If we have a textbook advisor at the local or district level, then there’s little reason to have one at the state level and no reason to have one at the national level.
If we have social services, intervention, special needs, etc., etc. at the local, district, and/or state levels, that is already too much duplication.
The Department of Education is useless. It’s only purpose is the consolidation of power. It is not about getting kids educated.
Revert it and its budgets all back to the states.
It would be one of the best things we could do.
Well anyone reading here who graduated before 1977,tell us how you were cheated because there was no Dept. of Education before then.
Thank Senator Abraham Ribicoff of Connecticut for it and Jimmy Carter
Take time to do a little research and you will find that in all categories, the results of efforts to education the young people in the US began it’s nosedive after the institution of the DOE under Carter. States do a better job.
and one thing more, I am convinced the student loan program is the reason colleges have continued to raise tuition. The government is ready to pay any amount. No matter how high it goes, Uncle Sam is there never restricting the school, just saying, “send me the bill.” Parents of America cannot compete with the government willingness to pay. The student loan program, IMO, is the reason for collegiate greed.