"What have you done to accomplish The Plan?"
Posted on 02/16/2025 8:20:10 AM PST by karpov
Federal statutes require the United States Department of Education (ED) to fund race discrimination at postsecondary institutions through laws such as § 1059e. Predominantly Black Institutions, § 1059g. Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-serving institutions, and §§ 1101 – 1101d. Hispanic-Serving Institutions. ED’s Office for Civil Rights has chosen to abuse its power by redefining gender ideology and race discrimination as civil rights that colleges and universities must enforce at pain of lawsuit and losing eligibility for federal grants and loans—and by using administrative devices such as Dear Colleague Letters and case resolutions to allow ED to act as if it had the power to make law. The entire Biden administration ED acted with blatant illegality to “forgive” college-student loans.
ED has done great damage to American higher education by these means. At the same time, ED remains immensely popular with the American public for its core higher-education spending: Pell Grants for disadvantaged college students and William D. Ford Federal Direct Loans for just about every college student who applies for one. The Trump administration already has issued a flurry of executive orders to reform all parts of the federal government, including ED, but it’s not yet clear what strategy it will use to align ED’s postsecondary-education policies with these executive orders.
The National Association of Scholars (NAS) recommends in Waste Land: The Education Department’s Profligacy, Mediocrity, and Radicalism that education reformers enact comprehensive reform to simplify and depoliticize ED’s higher-education spending and regulations. This strategy will make ED transparent and accountable to the public and to policymakers. Reformers shouldn’t jeopardize real reform by a hasty attempt to eliminate ED entirely—which might be ineffective and certainly would alienate large swathes of the American public.
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We can thank Jimmy Carter for that.
Pity he didn’t live long enough to see it undone.
I prefer Lukeville, AZ.
If only private companies were unselfish. They'd milk it.
“....what good are they?”
They had their chance to make a positive difference in society yet failed miserably to the tune of trillions of wasted US taxpayer dollars throughout their existence. Given the current dollars spent per student as well as the end results which I’ve unfortunately witnessed firsthand over the last 20+ years, they deserve nothing less than total eradication.
But parents need to hold their kids accountable for learning.
The parents can demand it from their kids.
My perspective is from curriculum development and instruction for 15+ years in a hands-on technical college. I was “forced” to dumb down several courses due to administration going all in for online learning. To add insult to injury, this particular online “training” was outsourced from Europe as apparently none exist within the US.
Needless to say, this caused me great consternation knowing the students were getting the short stick and not being able to stop nor slow this monstrosity down. Thankfully, I only had to put up with that crap for a couple of years before I could retire.
For some strange reason, I still ponder that nonsense from time to time and it still pisses me off to this day.
They are a critical part of our long-term plan to enslave the middle class. (/Democrats)
Jimmy Carter strikes again.
He created the Department of Education as a gift to the “teacher’s” union for supporting him during the 1976 presidential campaign.
Yes to killing the DoE .... we’ve gone from being 1st in education in the world to 24th. thanks to Carter’s DoE.
FReeper Chuckham has pointed out that the pigs at the troth are squealing for their slop.
DE is full of woke, progressive lefties. Kill it. Split a new smaller dept of ed from HHS. Renew it as a skeleton crew under a human services dept. Have it dole out monies to each state for school choice, set minimum standards like the 3R’s.
New Human services dept. will handle schools, workfare, elder non medical care, etc.
If you want to see the full list of DEI in federal agencies and in dept of Ed, go to polymarket.com and look for DOGE. will get a full list of initiatives...see how much was with dept of Ed...
No wonder why Trump wants to dissolve DEPT. OF ED..
We must have top-down centralized planning if we are to be good Marxist-Leninist country.
"What have you done to accomplish The Plan?"
Cut the Dept of Education completely. Let the States figure out how to fund schools. It all comes from the same pocket, taxpayers pockets. Individual states will see the folly of paying to educate foreigners, and English as a Second Language teaching. They won’t be able to afford the same numbers of teachers. If an insane state like WA wants to continue on, the sales tax will need to rise to 20%. That won’t pencil out with residents.
Education is a what have you done for me lately content area. PhDs are routinely given for reviews of the literature.
California democrats were discriminating against asian people by blocking them from college even when they had higher scores. Many years ago the federal gov’t and the state courts stopped this BUT the democrats kept on discriminating by other ways. Example if you had an asian name your application was rejected. Nothing changed. The democrats wanted dumber students to indoctrinate.
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