Posted on 03/06/2023 12:00:42 PM PST by SoConPubbie
Forty-fifth President and leading 2024 presidential candidate Donald Trump spoke to reporters and a huge crowd of supporters on Saturday at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) and promised to “abolish” the Department of Education.
Before speaking on stage, Trump told reporters, “I would like to end the Department of Education. It’s time. The country does very well in some ways, but badly in others. We did fantastically in everything.”
“We did as good as you can do in education, but you have to get rid of the Department of Education. Close it up,” Trump added.
“When you look at the list of countries, we’re always at the bottom. We spend more money on people and we’re always at the bottom of the list of forty countries,” Trump continued.
“We should close it up and let local areas… frankly, states handle education. I don’t know if that’s good politically to say or bad politically to say. But that’s the way it’s going to be. We are going to close it up,” Trump said.
While on stage, Trump doubled down and vowed to “abolish” the bureacracy that was founded in 1979.
Trump is correct. The Department of Education is failing at its mission and the federal government should relinquish its regulation of America’s schools to the states.
In February, news broke of 23 Baltimore schools having zero students proficient in math after the latest round of state test scores were released.
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“Baltimore City’s math scores were the lowest in the state. Just 7 percent of third through eighth graders tested proficient in math, which means 93 percent could not do math at grade level,” according to Fox Baltimore.
“We, the taxpayer, are funding our own demise,” A Baltimore resident who filed a lawsuit against Baltimore City Schools, Jovani Patterson, said.
“We’re not living up to our potential. My immediate reaction is, take your kids out of these schools,” Patterson added.
In addition to making bold statements about the role of the government in education during his speech, Trump also promised the Republican Party will “never” return to the “party of Paul Ryan, Karl Rove, and Jeb Bush.”
“But we are never going back to the party of Paul Ryan, Karl Rove, and Jeb Bush,” Trump said.
Trump crushed any questions of him not being the leader of the Republican party yet again with a 42-point landslide lead in the Conservative Political Action Conference’s (CPAC) famous straw poll released on Saturday.
Trump came in first place, of course, with 62 percent. Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) came in second place with 20 percent, 42 points behind Trump.
With polls showing Trump in the lead amongst all potential Republican and Democrat challengers, any potential candidate will have an impossible battle if they attempt to usurp the favorite to win the 2024 nomination.
The DOE would be a good start. Dept of labor, HUD, and a few others should be disbanded immediately
But the bigger point to make is that the Education Department has absolutely nothing to do with education. They are merely a bank, chartered to move public taxpayer funds into the hands of educational bureaucrats claiming to meet certain basic requirements which do not require any educational achievement or results. Stuff like gender neutral bathrooms, number of actual enrolled students vs. those claimed, handicapped access, etc.....
It’s a start, but more needs to be done. All public sector unions, including teacher unions, need to be outlawed. All education regulations at the federal level need to be eliminated. All tax dollars spent on school children need to be eliminated regardless of federal agency, e.g., school lunches.
Each state has it’s own education department. We don’t need federal oversight. Enforce the 10th amendment.
Watch the deep state Rinos do everything they can to thwart him on this.
Go Trump Go!!
Nobody (not even liberals) can truthfully say that K-12 education is better today than it was 50 years ago. The Department of Education is a total, complete, abject failure, and should be eliminated forthwith.
100% sot on, blackdog. I’ve thought for years DOE should be disbanded. This should be the province of towns, cities, and states.
Most of FedZilla is a is a total, complete, abject failure, and should be eliminated forthwith.
Trump has a lot of dumb ideas.
This isn’t one of them.
See your mail in a minute.
IIRC Federal government employee unions are allowed only by
EO, which any president or congress can retract.
Has public education improved since Jimmy Carter created the Department of Education?
I think it’s worth having discussions, about whether certain bureaucracies are really needed, and/or, are they doing the job they were set up to do.
It is stunning news ,,to learn that in Baltimore , a number of schools have zero students achieving a grade level.
There will always be some students who are lagging behind grade level, but, an entire school has zero students achieving at grade level?
Wouldn’t make a difference. Crappy grades are all local results. The problem is at the local level and let’s be real...it’s all about Unions and tenure.
It used to be that each state ran their schools without any aid or orders from DC. The feds used to give money for gifted student programs, but that was about it.
The Department of Education was a spin off from the Health, Education and Welfare Department which began in 1953 under Eisenhower.
The Education Department is simply a base for a bunch of nice paying jobs.
You are absolutely right. They’re the money managers and will receive $50 billion this year.....to distribute.
Yes, federal student aid (federal grants and loans) could easily be administered by the Treasury Dept, for example. Same with VA loans. They could be also administered by Treasury (which houses the IRS).
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