Posted on 02/01/2023 8:12:42 PM PST by LouAvul
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. — An Oklahoma State Senator has proposed a bill that would phase out the use of federal funding for public education.
Senate Bill 863, written by Republican David Bullard, would create a timeline that would gradually end the use of federal funding for students in pre-kindergarten though twelfth grade.
The ten-year plan would also include “a projected need for state funds to replace the federal funds.”
If Senate Bill 863 is passed and approved, it would immediately take effect. The next legislative session begins Feb. 6.
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Education should have never been driven from the Federal level. It should ALWAYS have been the province of the States and local governments.
Never.
Never.
Federal Funding=Federal Control
Maybe a real great reset?
Great Idea !
And if you just teach reddin, ritin and rithmetik, you won’t need to replace the federal funds.
Which has been scandalously misused by the Left. End it now. Shut down the DOE entirely.
bttt
Without indoctrination centers how would impressionable young children have their sexual identities molded by deviants, their image of America to be one of shame and revulsion and their lives influence to conform to the socialist society ideals?
Get the woke Feds out of state matters.
Do it for colleges, too.
YES! The only way for red states to be free of blue rules is to say no to the money.
The Feds give less than 10% of funds needed for schools to operate, but the States lap it up. Couldn’t be a scam, could it? I mean, like a scam, to like, funnel that money, like back to the elections of like Democrats?
A “ten-year plan”???
WTH. Just redo your budget without the damn “federal funds.” If they fire 80% of the administrators that are doing nothing but filling out federal forms and data and all the useless programs paid for by the “federal funds,” they could probably make that could be off the federal teat by the start of the next school year.
Tell the federal Dept. of “Education” to pound sand, you aren’t going to send them anything or do anything they require.
So the Feds can’t withhold it to get their own way
Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children’s factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, etc. etc.Any government control, even at state level, is the goal of socialists.
— Tenth plank of communism
Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks.That started at state level, before education began to be federalized.
— Communist goal #17
Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture — education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
— Communist goal #32
This notion we needed federal money for schools was fueled in the 1950’s by the Soviets putting Sputnik into space.
People were actually spouting the notion that the USSR had a better education system and the US needed to catch up in education with the USSR by sending money for “science” to public schools.
The USSR got rockets into space first because they captured more German rocket scientists than the US did following World War 2.
Federal money for schools picked up more steam during the Great Society of LBJ in the 1960’s.
Most money in education is salaries and benefits including in the more Democrat states pensions California pensions are the ultimate ones 3 percent of the salary for every year you worked the government job.
"The ten-year plan would also include “a projected need for state funds to replace the federal funds [emphasis added].”"
State Senator David Bullard's bill is at least a step in the right direction.
H O W E V E R...
ALL state lawmakers, especially Democrats, need to understand the states have never expressly constitutionally given the unconstitutionally big federal government the specific power to dictate, regulate, indoctrinate, or tax and spend for INTRAstate schooling purposes.
In fact, consider that President Thomas Jefferson, in a State of the Union address, also Justice Joseph Story, had both indicated that the states would first need to appropriately amend the Constitution in order for Congress to be able to dictate, regulate, tax and spend in the name of intrastate schooling — something that the states have never done.
“The great mass of the articles on which impost is paid is foreign luxuries, purchased by those only who are rich enough to afford themselves the use of them. Their patriotism would certainly prefer its continuance and application to the great purposes of the public education, roads, rivers, canals, and such other objects of public improvement as it may be thought proper to add to the constitutional enumeration of federal powers [emphasis added].” —Thomas Jefferson: 6th Annual Message, 1806." (Jefferson is indicating that Congress cannot tax and spend in the name of intrastate infrastructure imo.)
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"The power to regulate manufactures is no more confided to congress, than the power to interfere with the systems of education, the poor laws, or the road laws of the states [emphases added]." —Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2, 1833.
"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]." —United States v. Butler, 1936.
In other words, the so-called "federal" funding that constitution-impaired state lawmakers are always begging the feds for to help run their public schools, career state lawmakers then bragging about winning such funding to help get themselves reelected, is better thought of as state revenues that the feds steal from the states in the form of unconstitutional federal taxes, taxes that Congress cannot reasonably justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers and a few other constitutionally enumerated expenses according the excerpt from Gibbons v. Ogden above.
So a better goal for Bullard for funding state public schools is arguably this imo. He needs to lead the legislatures of all the states to put a “permanent” stop to unconstitutional federal taxes, and likewise unconstitutional federal interference in the affairs of the sovereign states, by calling for a Constitutional Convention to effectively "secede" ALL the states from the unconstitutionally big federal government by repealing the 16th (direct taxes) and 17th (popular voting for federal senators) Amendments (16&17A).
If the proposed amendment was limited strictly to repealing 16&17A, relatively little or ideally no discussion would be needed before ratification of the amendment imo.
With 16&17A out of the way, my hope is that Trump 47 becomes the FIRST president of a truly self-disciplined, constitutionally limited power federal government.
In the meanwhile, Trump will hopefully do another round of primarying federal and state RINOs for 2024 elections.
Anyone remember those forms that had to be filled out? You know the ones with the little box that said not federally connected? Schools got money for it and they intimidated those who didn’t take it seriously.
Let’s end government schools instead. What we learned in this government funded school experiement over the last 100+ years is so many humans are uneducatable. They simply are stupid and deserve the fate of Lazarus. Let’s stop spending any money on them.
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