Posted on 02/07/2017 11:29:34 PM PST by Ciaphas Cain
On the same day the Senate confirmed President Trump’s secretary of Education pick by a historically narrow margin, a House Republican introduced legislation to abolish the entire department Betsy DeVos will lead.
Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie’s bill is only a page long, after merely stating the Department of Education would terminate on Dec. 31, 2018.
Massie believes that policymakers at the state and local levels should be responsible for education policy, instead of a federal agency that’s been in place since 1980.
"Unelected bureaucrats in Washington, D.C. should not be in charge of our children's intellectual and moral development. States and local communities are best positioned to shape curricula that meet the needs of their students,” Massie said in a statement.
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Are we back to this stupid idea? Getting rid of the Department of Education is a non-starter. Reorganizing it to do what needs to be done on national level, leaving rest to states is more pragmatic. Education is in our national interest and the federal government has a role, albeit limited.
Dec. 31, 2018?????? WTF IS WRONG WITH FEB. 28, 2017???? (Or yesterday, for that matter!;)
Sure seems like the record of America WITHOUT the DOE is a lot better than the record of America WITH the DOE.
Good idea if tax reform leaves the money in the State/City by releaving the taxpayers of some of their burden.
Money channeled through Washington is too expensive.
Do it!
Awesome!
Beg to differ. That sounds like RINO talk. DOE was a Jimmah Cauter gift to the teachers' unions. Since then it has a serious case of mission creep. Armed officers anyone?
So, we idiots in Florida do not know how to educate our kids without the Fed Gubmint? And where in the constitution does it say "and educate the masses"?
Screw Fedzilla!!!!!!!! Eliminate the DOE..
hear, hear...
Kindly direct me to the section of the Constitution that authorizes the federal government to establish a Department of Education.
Whdn in doubt, invoke the Commerce Clause.
That’s not what the Commerce Clause is for. It is to “regulate”, as in make regular interstate commerce. The individual states were very loosely woven together in those days and our Founding Fathers wanted to encourage trade between them.
Thus, it was necessary to provide a little oversight. A bushel of apples should mean the same thing in Virginia as it did in New York. That kind of thing.
Activist judges have stretched the CC way past its original intent, to our detriment.
Are you sure you’re on the correct site?
All we need is some pious DC congress critters, who's kids go to $30K year private schools, telling us what to do with our kids.
Cutting back or reorganizing the DOE is like reorganizing a cancer. It will surely grow back. What happens when the next rat president or congress gets hold of this limited department?
Put it down asap.
Offer every DOE employee 2 years pay to quit TOMORROW. Do not replace. I’ll work there for $1 to oversee the tear-down like 41’ did when Soviet Nuclear sites were dismantled. Sleep in the office. Cable tv/internet is all I need.
Take a look at Common Core. It’s FUBAR
No.
Any benefit of having a DOE is far outweighed by the cost of having the Communist teacher’s unions running the show.
We don’t need no (Dept of) Education
We don’t need no thought control
Why? The Department of Education wasn't out of control until George 1 "Technology 2000" initiatives. How many people, outside of those who profit from the federal education mess, would object if the Department of Education stopped running programs and instead sent bloc grants to states?
Consider the arguments against DeVos. The dems could've won that argument if they'd based it on her original support of Common Core (she's since changed her views). What they're really fighting for is the failed status quo.
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