Per the horse’s mouth...
ED’s 4,400 employees and $68 billion budget...
And keep in mind that every state has a Dept of Ed.
NYS’s DofE LinkedIn pages admits to 1,768 employees.
Well heck, just add some points to every kid’s test score and get them back to what they used to be. Problem solved.
Scores have been falling since the creation of the Department of Education.
The US Education department has nothing to do with ‘education.’ It plainly is just the money spigot for federal cash to local schools whereby the government threatens its removal if certain “standards and measures” aren’t implemented.
Abolish the Dept. of Brainwashing (Education)
Having direct observation of public education for 25 years, priorities are wrong. I have a tainted view because I’m in an inner city system. Lots of time trying to de-feral them and get them to fit in a structured system. Then it’s “how to treat people” the 3 R’s are way down the list
Arrest Randi Weingarten and charge her with child abuse. Then every parent participate in a class action lawsuit against the NEA and AFT.
Propose as a solution, aside from disbanding the US Department is Education, pay teachers by performance. Pay them higher salaries and let them choose their own healthcare plans and 401K’s. They can then pocket the union dues and do what they are being paid to do which is teach.
I wonder how many of the “teachers” are actual illiterates?
Education majors are notorious for having the lowest SAT scores of all majors.
It used to be that teaching was where smart women went.
change the demographics and you change the test scores.
Open borders and ‘diversity’ have consequences.
Recall that the implementation of Obama-Bill Gate’s Common Core began the destruction of education in America.
https://capitalresearch.org/article/the-gates-foundations-common-core-disaster/
If we just made it a FELONY for any Public Employee Nationwide to send their minor children anywhere other than the Public School System for their Primary Education with removal of the children from the Family Home and put in to Foster Care to get a Proper Education for those that don’t.
The problems would be fixed overnight
Infiltrate the U.S. with 20 million un-educataed 3rd world students and force their integration into every classroom, add in domestic snowflake students with poor motivation because “parents”, and then test them using standardized testing. Yeah, you may see a fall off in test scores. Generally it’s called the “dumbing down of America”. Less generally it’s called the destruction of the west.
Back to the days of WHY “JOHNNY CAN’T READ”.
Then it levelled off, but at a rather high level.
Then the Department of Education came in as a payoff to the teacher's unions, and literacy has been going down ever since.
That does not absolutely prove the Department of Education caused the drop in literacy, but it does prove they are useless at best.
Good. Kill it.
I read that the high water mark for test scores in the United States was 1964.
The solution is simple: Go back and put in place what was used in 1964.
Most significantly, a very simple measure of any bureaucracy’s effects upon education needs to be adopted, primarily at the local & state levels (perhaps to be aggregated at the federal level for statistics, but statistics ALONE).
Given present company, I really don’t need to elaborate.
But the resultant legal battles will be both long & enormous in consideration of the effects upon school systems - K-12 & higher ed - nationwide.
They need a strategy to deal with the teacher’s unions et al; I’m not sure how the magnitude of changes could possibly be accomplished in the face of all the litigation which would likely result...but I smile at the effects of simply shutting the valve on the federal teat of $$ by elimination of DOE.
Education is like the homeless crisis: Homelessness is mostly not about a lack of housing. Homelessness is all about drug addiction, mental illness and dysfunctional families.
Falling school test score are not about funding or class size. The problems with education have much to do with deteriorating and dysfunctional families, missing fathers, dysfunctional neighborhoods and radical left wing policies.
If we eliminate the Dept of Education there is at least a chance that local control will help the schools while the taxpayers save billions of dollars.