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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“The universities say that’s because that is what the students demand but that is pure BS.”
Yep..... they said the same thing about online learning yet the majority of students I spoke with said otherwise.
American kids were a hell of a lot smarter when we didn’t have a bunch of union thugs running their education.
I wouldn’t bank on that. If Trump pisses off enough voters, it will happen.
Ranking Data From The Past Decades
The U.S. education ranking has experienced fluctuations over the past decades. Here is a brief overview of the ranking data:
Decade Ranking
1980s Top 5
1990s Top 10
2000s Top 15
2010s Top 20
DOE established in 1980
https://useducationnews.com/us-education-ranking-by-year/
Not so much Trump pissing off voters, more the media paid shills TELLING the voters that Trump pissed them off.
I thought we were against any form of discrimination. Let these cultures compete with everyone else. If you feel these groups deserve more support, open up your wallet and support them, but don't push that support back onto the US taxpayer.
We need to keep it—as a porta potty in front of the Capitol steps.
Then it would be popular with me.
It might save a life or two—when Congress-critters stumble down the steps it might give them something to land on or in....
Lol.
Why isn't that being done now?
So, the Department of “Education” is just another DEI sham? No wonder American kids are the dumbest on the planet.
It does with urologists.
“However, I wonder if the federal government should be involved with education at all. They screw up everything they touch.”
Exactly the point... or one of them. Defang the feral Federal Government. It has been given way too much power and has proven that it can’t be trusted.
They will not regain anything for many years. You give the present Democrat party too much credit.
It can exist in name only. Fire the people and don’t spend the money. There’s nothing that declares that the money must be spent. Congress only approves the creation of a department and a budget for it to use. The Executive Branch does the actual spending...and can decide not to.
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 government extracts enormous loans from 17 and 18 year olds, kids not olds enough to handle alcohol, according to them
The schools take the money then the students are to pay it back to the government with interest while the schools gay rich. Loaded
They enable the kids to drink and become stupid. They invite hateful foreign students
This is a scam that every DEA corrupticrat and every government official can see
Parents are stupid in their abdication
Trump comes in and says no on behalf of the students and the country’s future and they hate him
He’s used to it
The old media is dead. Trump is doing what he said he would do.
NO to you. Yes, KILL IT.
If it was an army, it would be defeated. If it made a product, no one would buy it!!!
Universities get rich from the ED. Urologists get rich from ED. Everybody wins!!
Except me. ;>(
“The years passed, mankind became stupider at a frightening rate. Some had high hopes that genetic engineering would correct this trend in evolution, but sadly the greatest minds and resources where focused on conquering hair loss and prolonging erections.”
Let’s severely downside it and keep it....and name Big Balls as Chairman.
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