Posted on 12/29/2015 4:47:09 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Speaking with Fox News host Chris Wallace this weekend, 2016 GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump made a remarkable statement about what he planned for the Department of Education, if and when he becomes president.
"I may cut Department of Education," Trump said. "I believe Common Core is a very bad thing. I believe that we should be -- you know, educating our children from Iowa, from New Hampshire, from South Carolina, from California, from New York. I think that it should be local education."
Many Americans agree, especially as the Department of Education has grown into a massive bureaucracy more focused on indoctrinating students in the Islamic faith and "white privilege" than in actually teaching them things that matter, like, say, literature and math.
Plus, getting rid of the Department of Education would give parents much more power over what their children learn.
However, whether Trump could get actually rid of Common Core, which is his apparent goal, remains to be seen.
As The Daily Caller reporter Blake Neff explained, "While Common Core is promoted indirectly by the Department of Education, it is still adopted individually by state governments, and the federal government does not control it."
Still, it's a very worthwhile goal to consider since many parents are fed-up with Common Core's "one-size-fits-all" approach to education.
Frankly, education is much too important to be mass produced ... and thankfully, most Americans, including Donald Trump, get this.
(Excerpt) Read more at conservativetribune.com ...
I will mean something to our children!
GO Trump!!!
EPA is an agency and it is definitely on the list targeted by Cruz. The article I excerpted went into more detail on the agencies and regulations that are in Cruz’s crosshairs.
Home school ping.
"Education budgets" are nothing legalized extortion rackets, ripping off the taxpayers...everywhere! Most of it goes to fat salaries and benefits for overpaid do-nothing union-thug educRATs.
There are some good teachers, but many are otherwise unemployable political hacks who couldn't teach their way out of a wet paper bag....AND THEY CAN'T BE FIRED!
Ska-REW their "education budgets"!
Yeah, but Cruz isn't a billionaire celebrity.
He's just a conservative Constitutionalist lawyer. So who cares if he said it weeks ago? Trump's saying it makes it mean something different!
*rolls eyes*
Don't really care about your spawn. Cruz will protect my family.
I hear you. Pathetic, no?
You can call that "fearless" if you want, Awgie, but I call it cautious. Even cagey.
Trump has the political depth of a tin pan.
That's all you got?
LOL.
Godspeed Ted Cruz.
“As The Daily Caller reporter Blake Neff explained, “While Common Core is promoted indirectly by the Department of Education, it is still adopted individually by state governments, and the federal government does not control it.”
Nonetheless, states rarely turn down the chance to accept “free money” from the federal government. Funding for education is no different. The primary financial incentive for states to accept the CCSS comes from the Race to the Top Fund (RTT). The fund, created by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and totaling $4.35 billion, offers competitive grants to all 50 states based on a number of criteria. “Developing and adopting common standards” would give a state 40 of a possible 500 points. As a result, 45 states and the District of Columbia have adopted the CCSS, allowing them to check off one category to make their application more competitive. Although specifically adopting the CCSS was not a requirement, the states that have not done so never even applied for RTT funding.
Funny how Planned Parenthood, National Pubic Radio, here, the Dept. of Education, et cetera all say that federal funding is just a wee, very small, really, really small part of their sustenance.
But bring up the subject of, why not give it back then ...
Also, consider that liberal, two talking morons, all of them, constantly drone on about diversity. If Diversity is our strength, then why not agree that local communities are the best sources of diversity in the US. We don’t need no dept of education. Thanks Roger....liberal moron.
If he isn’t just blowing smoke out his rear, I may just vote for him on that basis alone.
Trump will need congress to eliminate the DOE...
Let’s see how that works out...
“Don’t really care about your spawn. Cruz will protect my family.”
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“Don’t really care about your immature insults. Jesus Christ will always protect my family.”
There, fixed it.
"...Nowhere amongst the enumerated powers of congress is there authority
to tax and spend for: Social Security, public education, farm subsidies, bank
bailouts, food stamps and other activities that represent roughly two-thirds
of the federal budget. Neither is there authority for Congress's mandates to
the states and people about how they may use their land, the speed at which
they can drive, whether a library has wheelchair ramps and the gallons of
water used per toilet flush. A list of congressional violations of the letter
and spirit of the Constitution is virtually without end."
It’s a target rich environment - where to start, where to start...
Brilliant. And the fact that liberals would regard it as heretical makes the ring of truth to it all the more genuine!
Wow, Trump would eliminate one whole department. Cruz already listed five he would eliminate several months ago.
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