EXCELLENT!!
Posted on 03/21/2025 4:26:48 AM PDT by Libloather
President Trump took dramatic action Thursday to inch closer to fulfilling a four-and-a-half-decade-old conservative dream of abolishing the Department of Education, which was created in 1979 under the late former President Jimmy Carter.
While the Department of Education has one of the smallest staffs of cabinet-level departments, conservative critics have long ripped it as an unnecessary bureaucracy with an oversized budget.
Still, the Trump administration has acknowledged that the Education Department has some important responsibilities such as its work on student loans and administering Pell Grants that it wants to retain.
“The Department of Education will be much smaller than it is today,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters Thursday. “This president is finally taking much-needed action to return education to where it belongs — and that’s to educators closest to students in their classrooms.”
Last year, the Department of Education had a $268 billion budget, which amounted to about 4% of federal outlays. There are 17 offices in the department. When Trump took office, it had about 4,133 workers, now the administration claims there are about 2,183 on staff.
Here’s what the Department of Education does:
Financial aid The most expensive responsibility of the department is to oversee financial aid to students pursuing higher education, which is done primarily via the Office of Federal Student Aid (FSA).
FSA oversees Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), the form used by prospective students to apply for aid. The Biden administration overhauled FASFA but botched the rollout in late 2023 and early 2024, which led to significant delays for applicants at the time.
Last fiscal year, FSA doled out over $120.8 billion worth of various grants and loans to some 9.9 million students.
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Do the Pell "grants", i.e., the money itself, go to the college??
They fail to mention the part about the DOE has played the main role in kids who can’t read or write and that we’re number 50+/- in the world in education.
No teachers were harmed in this bloodbath.
You don’t need a large department to set minimal standards.
$268 billion budget, which amounted to about 4% of federal outlays
But only 20 Billions we dolled out in grants
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So 140 billions were WASTED!!!
I spent most of my money on booze and women. The rest of it I wasted.
BTTT
You don’t need to write checks, either.
Send it all back to the states.
Congress can write checks as needed.
All the Department of Ed is good for is growing the bureaucracy aiding and abetting Deep State.
“...The Department has nothing to do with curriculum...” ??
It sort of does .... because it favors and sustains a commitment to the character of faculty who are hard wired to push the Liberal agenda
“”The most expensive responsibility of the department is to oversee financial aid to students pursuing higher education, which is done primarily via the Office of Federal Student Aid (FSA).””
Something we can do without. Years ago loans were made by private enterprise for college. Remember Maxine Waters (I think) said student loans should be handled by the government. It had already been turned over to the government from private bankers but she was a little late to the party. I don’t think she’s ever been up to speed on anything EXCEPT brainwashing the poor voters of her district.
It’s too bad Jimmy Carter isn’t here to see it.😉
heh
It is not just the money that it wastes but more importantly the ideology that it forces on local schools.
you are correct sir
Years ago loans were made by private enterprise for college.
NDSL - national defense student loans 60’s. suppositly to educate army but finananced deferments
NDSL - national DIRECT student loans. change the title. financed directly by fed 70’s
80’s with Regan went to private adminstration, banks, rather than fed
90. back to fed administration so govt had more control.
and there was more.
I think Pell grants go direct to “Student”
There is nothing the DOE does as far as education. Lots and lots of “consultants” given to school systems and grant money for indoctrination programs, but extremely little actual educational benefits of any kind.
I know. I worked with these assholes for several years in the Denver and Colorado school systems. They were all about money and power and extremely little about education. More dollars went to “administration” buildings every time taxes were raised or grant money was provided by the DOE.
The DOE needs cut completely. It never standardized educational programs or advanced the national education programs to a higher standard. The DOE only resulted in money being sucked out of school systems and placed into the political aspects of school systems.
Good teachers are still underpaid while administrative employees make three to five times what a teacher makes.
School books are still in low supply, and good books are rare. Great authors exist but are turned down for school use because the authors do not subscribe to liberalism.
The DOE has also hurt colleges. It is stunning how much garbage the DOE demands of colleges and accreditation programs.
Thanks for that....I couldn’t remember what happened or when...so I appreciate that help.
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