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Trump is moving to gut the Department of Education — here’s what it does
NY Post ^ | 3/20/25 | Ryan King

Posted on 03/21/2025 4:26:48 AM PDT by Libloather

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1 posted on 03/21/2025 4:26:48 AM PDT by Libloather
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The Department has nothing to do with curriculum...it's just a money tree for Unions. Pell and Loans...somehow have to be put to rest. Let them go to the bank.

Do the Pell "grants", i.e., the money itself, go to the college??

2 posted on 03/21/2025 4:31:05 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Libloather

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.


3 posted on 03/21/2025 4:38:28 AM PDT by albie (U)
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To: Libloather

No teachers were harmed in this bloodbath.


4 posted on 03/21/2025 4:40:34 AM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
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To: Libloather

You don’t need a large department to set minimal standards.


5 posted on 03/21/2025 4:45:45 AM PDT by Jonty30 (I have invented blackened salmon salad by baking it in the oven for too long. )
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To: 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]

EXCELLENT!!


6 posted on 03/21/2025 4:46:17 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Sacajaweau

$268 billion budget, which amounted to about 4% of federal outlays
But only 20 Billions we dolled out in grants

+++++++++++++++++++++++

So 140 billions were WASTED!!!


7 posted on 03/21/2025 4:50:45 AM PDT by AZJeep (sane )
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I spent most of my money on booze and women. The rest of it I wasted.


8 posted on 03/21/2025 4:54:14 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Libloather

BTTT


9 posted on 03/21/2025 4:56:04 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: Jonty30

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.


10 posted on 03/21/2025 5:02:52 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: Sacajaweau

“...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


11 posted on 03/21/2025 5:48:40 AM PDT by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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“”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.


12 posted on 03/21/2025 6:30:12 AM PDT by Thank You Rush ( )
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To: SaveFerris

It’s too bad Jimmy Carter isn’t here to see it.😉


13 posted on 03/21/2025 6:55:03 AM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: telescope115

heh


14 posted on 03/21/2025 6:59:08 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Libloather

It is not just the money that it wastes but more importantly the ideology that it forces on local schools.


15 posted on 03/21/2025 7:21:45 AM PDT by Petrosius
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To: Petrosius

you are correct sir


16 posted on 03/21/2025 8:17:17 AM PDT by joshua c
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To: Thank You Rush

Years ago loans were made by private enterprise for college.


Student loan history.

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.


17 posted on 03/21/2025 8:23:58 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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To: Sacajaweau

I think Pell grants go direct to “Student”


18 posted on 03/21/2025 8:26:13 AM PDT by goodnesswins (Democracy to Democrats is stealing other peoples money for their use, no matter how idiotic)
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To: Libloather

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.


19 posted on 03/21/2025 8:31:27 AM PDT by CodeToad ( )
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To: PeterPrinciple

Thanks for that....I couldn’t remember what happened or when...so I appreciate that help.


20 posted on 03/21/2025 9:30:13 AM PDT by Thank You Rush ( )
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