[SMARTY]

perfect! Getting and KEEPING the Fed out of our schools is a giant step in the right direction

[Opinionated Blowhard]

I remember when Jimmy Carter created this department. It was just supposed to coordinate among the various state education departments to collect data and provide it to everyone and enforce certain civil rights matters like desegregation of schools. It has grown into a monster and now Obama has turned it into yet another weapon in the arsenal of Liberal Social Justice and the war on traditional moral values. Any expansion of government is twisted into something evil. This department needs to be shut down.

[al_c]

So in order to make sure tannies can pee where they want (as if they aren’t already) our pResident is willing to withhold funds to schools that would provide for things such as food for poor kids? Okay …

[originalbuckeye]

Here’s a novel idea.....why don’t the states just stop sending their Fed taxes to DC? Then they will have the money the state needs. I mean, this money was in Texas to begin with wasn’t it? Isn’t it Texas money that’s just being laundered through the Obama Admin?

[arthurus]

Losing ALL federal funding is the best thing that could happen to local schools and is the one thing that might turn the socialist cog factory back over to education. Federal funding comes with curricula and social requirements that have largely ended actual education and have forced- no, not all forced because local bureaucracies eagerly seek the funding- the local districts to spend more money soing the same things than they would have spent themselves and it is mostly things that local communities did not want to have or even fear and loathe. School districts do not opt out of federal programs and funding because local bureaucrats crave any outside money they can get even if it costs more local money than they are getting and Education bureaucrats' last concern is educating children. What they crave and demand is more money in the system to raise their own incomes and provide more bureaucrats to increase their local empires. More federal money requires more local and state money and that is all good for the bureaucrats even as it turns children into mindless welfareists and Democrats and college snowflakes.

[choctaw man]

Texas is like a “whole ‘nother country.’

[jimjohn]

Hey States!

What a great way to get out of those wasteful programs like forced-busing, common core, Title IX, and a whole bunch of other garbage that burn through cash and causes endless frustration.

In other words, just say NO, and it’s a dead issue.
BTW: Still waiting on the Hilldabeast to weight in. Sometime before the Dem Convention would be nice...lol

[unixfox]

We don’t want your money, and you hate our state anyway. So GFY!

[GailA]

Obama’s Coed Bathroom Madness (links)

The operative phrase here is, “does not have the force of law.” This is a cynical exercise in pure propaganda on the part of the Obama administration.

As noted by former Assistant U.S. Attorney Frank Lipuma in the John Marshal Law Review, the “courts have defined ‘sex’ according to the traditional notions of biological sex.”
http://repository.jmls.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2206&context=lawreview

http://townhall.com/columnists/mattbarber/2016/05/15/obamas-coed-bathroom-madness-n2163090?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

It would be interesting to observe what actually, really happens if the Feds stop sending money to a state. It would probably be different in a state like OK vs a state like TX, but maybe I am showing some prejudice.

I think it would be absolutely fascinating, though obviously some people would be “hurt”. Some of those would be your standard gaggle of grifters. I have no way of predicting, but the states could conceivable fight back with a PR campaign “we are immediately shutting down 20% of our schools statewide and eliminating all ESL courses statewide. We have temporarily laid off 25% of our teacher staff and eliminated all PE classes across our entire school system, statewide (would be explosive in TX with football, OMG!) The governor is declaring a styate of emergency and we are requesting $50 billion in Federal funds to allow us to construct unisex bathrooms in 5337 schools statewide.”

I mean....it would be absolutely fascinating to see the blowback and PR damage the admin would have thrown at them.

And Loretta Lynch could go “merely, merely, merely” and let’s just see the nationwide freakout reaction.

[Da Coyote]

Dorkbama the Muslim Dick can shove his silly little executive orders up his Obamahole.

[BobL]

Since the feds deal DIRECTLY with the school districts, Mr. Patrick’s statement will have little, if any, effect, as the school districts are not about to do what he’s asking, considering who runs them.

Now if Texas would PROHIBIT its schools from receiving federal money, then things would get VERY INTERESTING. Among the first things that would be discovered would be that the loss of red tape may well negate the loss of funding. For example - cafeterias could cook food that kids want, and charge them for it appropriately...and God knows what else could be done with the feds off their backs.

[BitWielder1]

I applaud any state that has the fortitude to say NO! to federal mandates and handouts.
I'm tired of how Washington is using our own money against us.

[bgill]

Secede!

[shotgun]

It’s not just withholding of funds, they can also request the state to pay funds back that they have already “given” to them...

[MikeSteelBe]

I did a research paper on the “55 saves lives” blackmail lie in high school.

the fedgov uses money to get get states to pass laws the fedgov does not have the constitutional authority to make.

[Rurudyne]

Once off the teat they loose all power over you, for ANYTHING.

Besides that, there is no delegated power given the federal to fund education among the several States in the first place. That alone is reason to stand against it.

[OriginalChristian]

The FIRST federal agency to go in my fantasy presidency is the Department of Education. Shut down, lock, stock & barrel. Everybody attached to it FIRED. I hope I live to see the day it becomes a reality.

[Texicanus]

Only about 11 percent of our independent school district is federally funded. The rest is mostly from state funds and local taxation. I wonder if we reduced our expenses or replaced the federal funds with non-federal sources we could throw off the chains of Washington? Any ideas out there from more enlighten FReepers as to whether this might be possible. Texans would like to tell Obama and his Department of Eduction to shove it. States should determine and control their public education based on their local needs, not those of Washington or the world.

[M.T. Helmets]

Actually, the national 55 mph speed limit was passed by congress and signed into law by President Richard Nixon in 1974. In 1987, the limit was raised to 65 mph and then in 1995 Congress repealed the law.