[ealgeone]

“You’re now talking about 140 years of presidential administrations — Republicans and Democrats — who all supported the proposition that the best way to get an effective government was to have a career, professional, merit-based civil service,....

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What benefit do we gain from the Dept of Education??

[blackdog]

The Department of Education has nothing to do with education. It's a bank for public learning institutions. To be a customer that gets money from them, the rules of the bank must be followed. Those rules are largely social engineering mandates like gender transition, title 9, FAFSA compliance, reduced and free student meals, yadda-yadda.

The Department of Education was a gift from Jimmy Carter to the teachers unions for their support. Reagan said he would get rid of it, but he never did.

It has grown in size and scope, now taking on a money laundering function. Universities are now "retirement jobs" for displaced political hacks to do as requested.

[oldtech]

The Dept. of Education is one agency whose name comes up often as one we don’t need. Should be state controlled probably. I think if they looked hard at these agencies one at a time, that there are others we could probably do without or consolidate some with other agencies & reduce the number of employees. Government right now is unnecessarily big.

[MayflowerMadam]

“What benefit do we gain from the Dept of Education??”\

No benefits; only detriments.