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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How did it ever get to the Federal Level to start with?? Every state did their own thing and it worked.
Fire the bureaucrats in Washington DC.
Send the federal funding of the Dept to the 50 states as block grants earmarked exclusively for School Choice. Help parents get their kids out of government schools and away from government indoctrination.
Move it to northern Alaska.
Still exists. Enjoy freezing if you want to work there.
Yes! Kill Jimmy’s creation!
“How did it ever get to the Federal Level to start with?? Every state did their own thing and it worked.”
Thank Jimmy C44arter.
If we fund education from federal monies it should be as block grants to the individual states with no strings attached. California, New York and other liberal states will waste it. Texas, Florida and conservative states will use it wisely.
However, I wonder if the federal government should be involved with education at all. They screw up everything they touch.
“David Randall - David Randall is Director of Communications at the National Association of Scholars.”
An association calling themselves the above is already FULL OF THEMSELVES.
No one said anything about killing.
But since this numbskull brings it up
The DEA has been killing brain cells of the children they claim to serve
I know genius kids of friends of mine who are struggling with common core math
I question whether it is in place primarily to destroy logical thinking, the enemy of the governing class
If kids don’t learn to write cursive they lose touch with their creative side.
Children are taught to read by character sight, as if English language is Chinese
It stifles their reading
High school kids are encouraged (non spoken rule) to use AI for their homework to get the good grades teachers need to keep their jobs
Parents have completely abdicated their role in education their children to these completely corrupt idiots
“How did it ever get to the Federal Level to start with?? Every state did their own thing and it worked”
Overwhelming Democrat majorities in the Congress in the 70’s, that’s how.
Kind of surprised to see this. The James G. Martin Center is (usually) pretty conservative.
“ED remains immensely popular”
Not with me!
Yes.... let DOGE take over the building. The fact that the US ranks 40th in results yet #1 at per student spending is more than enough reason to totally dismantle this useless department.
On level with the civil rights act championed by Johnson
Nasty cancer that needs to be totally eliminated.
It will take an act of Congress to get rid of DoE since it created it. Trump has only 2 years before the democrats take over the HOR again.
The only reason that higher education costs have soared for decades way above the inflation rate is the “FREE MONEY” from FedZilla.
When I went to a major midwestern state university ‘69-’73, things were pretty spartan. We still had a huge quonset hut built in WW II next to the administration building! It was still in use 40 years after WW II ended. That was frugality.
When I stroll through a modern university campus now and then, I’m amazed at how luxurious and extravagant everything is. The universities say that’s because that is what the students demand but that is pure BS. It’s a direct result of all the free money from Uncle Sugar.
The commies are a cancer.
“Trump has only 2 years before the democrats take over the HOR again.”
Ain’t gonna happen once election reforms are in place throughout the US.
NO. every government dollar goes straight to building the woke, bloated, educrat bureaucracy and political bloc.
Having it laundered through students multiplies the evil - it puts young people in unescapable debt.
Remove the printed government money and tuition prices will decline.
Simplest fix here....to avoid Congress/Senate getting all involved....cut 10-percent of man-power on day one. Every 60 days....cut another 10-percent. Along about July...folks will be in fear...leaving on their own. By end of 2025..90-percent are gone. Just don’t refill on empty slots.
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