Posted on 03/23/2023 6:37:40 AM PDT by Conservativetpa
House Republicans will soon vote on a measure to end the U.S. Department of Education — a proposal supported by Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz.
Kentucky GOP Rep. Thomas Massie, who has previously argued for abolishing the department, pinned an amendment to carry out his plan onto an existing education bill now before the House.
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His father was our county’s Superintendent of Education....................
I hope he succeeds. Education is not one of the reserved powers in the Constitution.
Especially, since the introduction of “Common Core”, which is suffused with woke material.
The good news is that this is a favorite theme of mine.
The bad news is that the great Ronald Reagan vowed to do it, and that was even before the ink was dry on the enabling legislation during J. Carter.
Reagan tried to do a partial birth abortion on the damned thing, then lamented that the closest thing on earth to eternal life is a government program.
Good.
The GOP used to be about smaller government, they have failed miserably. Time to return to our roots.
Education should be managed on the local and state levels...
What is the function of the Department of Education? Here is what’they’ say their mission is:
ED’s mission is to promote student achievement and preparation for global competitiveness by fostering educational excellence and ensuring equal access.
ED was created in 1980 by combining offices from several federal agencies. ED’s 4,400 employees and $68 billion budget are dedicated to:
Establishing policies on federal financial aid for education, and distributing as well as monitoring those funds.
Collecting data on America’s schools and disseminating research.
Focusing national attention on key educational issues.
Prohibiting discrimination and ensuring equal access to education.
Other than dispersing funds to facilitate the ‘dictates’ of the Federal Government, I really don’t see a need for a Federal, Cabinet level Department. It appears to me that their function is to provide 4400 bureaucrats with Washington D.C. Let’s pare this organization down to the function of dispering funds and delegating all other functions to the local State and City Governments.
Agreed, Jonty30. This piece of governmental flotsam was foist on the American People by the peanut farmer, Jummuh Cahtuh, and should be shut down, immediately.
I can get behind that.
Keep it local!
Get the Feds out of “Student” Loans.
It would be nice to do away with this useless program but this is what congress does posture and waste time, the Senate will never agree and if they did Biden and the wack jobs on the left would stop it in its tracks.
I have no problem with a Dept of Education at the FedGov level. There is merit to having some common guidelines available to all the education systems.
However that department should consist of no more than 6 people whose only job is to produce generic guidelines for education programs used in the individual states. Non of the guidelines will be mandatory and none will carry any sort of punishment should a state ignore it.
They will be sunset every 4 years. If a guideline has merit (as decided by Congress only, no Senate, no POTUS), it will be updated and reinstated.
... just my $0.02 ...
The execrable Tip O'Neill kept it alive.
“However that department should consist of no more than 6 people whose only job is to produce generic guidelines for education programs used in the individual states. Non of the guidelines will be mandatory and none will carry any sort of punishment should a state ignore it.”
Six worthless jobs
Waay overdue!
Obamacare redux, doomed in the Senate and a Biden veto. They had all 3 for two years and this didn’t even come up.
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