Posted on 03/17/2025 8:59:23 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
Less than two weeks into her tenure as U.S. secretary of Education, Linda McMahon announced nearly 1,300 layoffs to eliminate “bureaucratic bloat” and redirect more funds to states. The cuts to the Department of Education reflect poor leadership and should be undone because they will cost taxpayers and harm children in the long run.
I agree with McMahon in principle that cuts within the department should be made. Many conservative Republicans are not wrong to suggest certain programs and policies have been highly ineffective. As a former teacher and current professor, I have sat through my share of ineffective professional developments and poorly designed research presentations that fail to advance student experiences and achievement outcomes.
However, let’s not throw the baby out with the bathwater. The Department of Education plays a small but important role in enforcing civil rights, maintaining a system of accountability, and conducting research and evaluation to improve teaching and learning outcomes.........
In other Trump-initiated cuts, many essential hires haphazardly cut were quickly rehired, creating significant disruptions and organizational inefficiencies. Other recent large-scale cuts led to lawsuits in which the federal government was forced to rehire employees. That meant government employees were paid not to work — hardly a cost saving measure.
Lawsuits will also arise from a failure to address a growing backlog of civil rights complaints, since McMahon’s cuts included most staff from the department’s Office of Civil Rights. Parents struggling to find short-term remedies will join class-action suits that can cost states and the federal government significant amounts of money to litigate and remedy.
Congress will now legislate in the dark, thanks to McMahon’s cuts to the National Center for Education Statistics. The center collects, analyzes and provides actionable information to inform policy and determine spending levels.
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From the Hill Of Crap
Article:
“let’s not throw the baby out with the bathwater”
We need to toss the whole leftist house into the bonfire.
“Costly” only to bureaucrats who teach no children but doubled the cost of education while decreasing its quality.
That kind of “cost”.
“The Hill” says “haphazard”. Therefore, it is MAGA.
Only 25% of the education budget goes to educating kids. Literally.
75% goes to consultants who are related to democrats who then contribute it back to democrats.
It’s almost entirely a scam.
“Other recent large-scale cuts led to lawsuits in which the federal government was forced to rehire employees.”
Wait for the appeals. They’ll all be fired.
And (paraphrasing), you agree with Elon but he’s doing it wrong?
Liar.
cesspool needs to be gone period
And how will David know and conclude all this ?
By all the subscriptions to The Hillaid for by USAIDs ?
“The Department of Education plays a small but important role in enforcing civil rights, maintaining a system of accountability, and conducting research and evaluation to improve teaching and learning outcomes”
...civil rights = DEI
accountability = there’s been none
improve teaching = Hahahahahahahasnorthaha! That’s a good one!
“McMahon’s cuts included most staff from the department’s Office of Civil Rights.”
Recall that it was Obama’s “Dear colleague” letter from the office of civil rights that incited the rape hysteria on campus. Based on the lie that 25% of girls on campus are rape victims, due process rights of the accused were suspended, radical feminist administrators played judge and jury and ruined the lives of a large number of boys who were falsely accused of rape. The DOE department of civil rights is a left wing joke.
There is another article out today stating that only 25% of the DOE budget goes to actual education while the rest is overhead, hiring consultants and lobbying. This writer is an idiot.
There is no K-12 education proficiency markers that indicate the federal DOE has ever maintained a system of holding schools to account for their performance, nor that any research and evaluation to improve teaching and learning which the DOE conducted is evidenced in any positive way in K-12 education today. No doubt the DOE did "conduct research" for "improving" K-12 education, and likely even paid some colleges great sums of money to be part of that "research", which was a great financial boon to those institutions, and great personal boon to the academics who got their names on those studies, but nothing in K-12 education today indicates the nation got anything positive from it.
The libs these days are fairly wetting their pants.
Educational performance was much better before Washington got involved. It should be a state only responsibility with Washington focusing their ineptitude elsewhere.
For over a century, the left has tried to control education, generally through funding a tiny amount of the cost, and approval of funds the state has gotten greedy on and tried to get, so they can manufacture liberals. Eeryone alive today went through the endoctrination and either learned or fell lockstep behind the pack. And as the education continued, it turned into radicalized instructors starting in primary education and increasing through seconday and even some trade and parochial schools.
The more the federal level education department is taken out of the loop and the voluntary sending of funds the taxpayers pay federally is a gift rather than a chosen funding by the feds, the less and less the department of education is needed and can go away. Then those taxes can revert back to the state if they have them and be used by their needs and not a need decided by Washington. Funds in the pockets of the people that have kids in the school placing them back into parenting and not settling on babysitters with wrong attitudes and training.
wy69
Gee who have thought that would be your opinion
I agree with you
The Department of Education plays a small but important role in enforcing civil rights
If you wonder why schools do things such as transfer rather than punish pretend girls who rape real girls, it is because in many cases threats of DOE legal action against them.
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