Trump to pull feds out of K-12 education

The Washington Times ^ | 04/26/2017 | S. A. Miller

[ForYourChildren]

President Trump will sign an executive order Wednesday to start pulling the federal government out of K-12 education, following through on a campaign promise to return schools to state and local control.

The order, dubbed the “Education Federalism Executive Order,” will launch a 300-day review of Obama-era regulations and guidance for school districts and direct Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to modify or repeal measures deemed an overreach by the federal government, according to a senior administration official

“With this executive order, President Trump has reaffirmed his commitment to getting the federal government out of the way and returning control over education back where it belongs at the state and local level,” said the officials, who briefed reporters on background in advance of the signing ceremony later Wednesday.

Echoing Mr. Trump’s views on education, the official stressed that since the founding of the U.S., schools were intended to be under state control, but the federal government has increasingly usurped that authority.

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[The_Republic_Of_Maine]

WONDERFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Pollster1]

Won’t be good enough for some FReepers, because Ivanka

Not good enough???

Do we need a new FR rule: Post an Ivanka picture any time she is mentioned?

[Amendment10]

While I still question if Trump is aware of the fed’s constitutionally limited powers, Trump’s uncommon common-sense actions emphasizing state and local control are helping to force the corrupt feds back into their Article I, Section 8-limited power “cage.”

More specifically regarding unconstitutional federal government involvement in INTRAstate schooling, please note the following.

President Thomas Jefferson had officially clarified that the states would first need to ratify an education amendment to the Constitution in order for Congress to get involved in supportiong intrastate schooling, the states never amending the Constitution for such a purpose. And Supreme Court clarifications of the fed’s constitutinally limited powers support Jefferson’s clarification.

• On a few articles of more general and necessary use, the suppression in due season will doubtless be right, but 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 [emphases added]”—Thomas Jefferson : Sixth Annual Message to Congress

• “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.

• ”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.

[Luke21]

Some California judge will block it and Trump will say “okay.”

[Walrus]

Fast track to SCOTUS on this one!

[logi_cal869]

My thought as well. Eventually there is going to be a showdown between Executive & Judicial; something’s gotta give...

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Your obsessions with Ivanka are becoming embarrassing.

[Blue Highway]

[ForYourChildren]

“While I still question if Trump is aware of the fed’s constitutionally limited powers, Trump’s uncommon common-sense actions emphasizing state and local control are helping to force the corrupt feds back into their Article I, Section 8-limited power “cage.””

I am in agreement with your statement here.

An example of his limited “aware[ness] of the fed’s constitutionally limited powers..” is his desire to give federal control over healthcare, which seems totally at odds with his desire to deconstruct the administrative state and give back “state and local control” for much of the current feds illegal control and “force the corrupt feds back into their Article I, Section 8-limited power “cage.””

[vette6387]

Just hope Ivanka doesn’t try to muddy the waters here!

[seekthetruth]

Certainly agree with your comments! I have been smiling since the day Donald J. Trump entered the race for President and smiling and jumping for joy since the day he was sworn in as our President!!

The executive order he signed today is one I have been waiting for. As an old public school educator I have been hoping I would see the end of control from DC before the Lord takes me. So nothing but more smiling from me today!

[seekthetruth]

“Next move, disbanding Dept. of Education?
I hope so.”

Me Too!! :)

[seekthetruth]

“Now, it’s time to get the teachers’ unions out of the equation, because teachers’ unions are about the employment rights and political agenda of bureaucracies, not the improved learning performance of children.”

I agree with you totally! And as a former public school teacher of 43 years, I know it is absolutely true. I am proud to say I testified before the Florida House Education Committee to help Governor Scott get his Florida Education Reform Bill passed. It was a lovely day here in the Sunshine State when the law passed making it necessary for every public school teacher renew their contract every year. No more tenure.....which was most of the time tenure for folks who should not be in the classroom to begin with!

[Albion Wilde]

bump

[Pride in the USA]

YES!

[Slyfox]

I was scooting around the web a few years ago looking at jobs. Bumped into a federal website which featured jobs for educators working in a federal capacity in which no job listed was less than $100,000.

Looks like Trump is going to be cutting into some big money non-teaching positions.

[TxAg1981]

All of the battles surrounding Trump are essentially a fight for supremacy. As originally designed, the House is superior..closest to the People. However, the House has been asleep at the switch and refused to exercise their role over the Judiciary. Nowadays, everyone feels that the Courts are the final arbiter of ALL legislation. The Constitution never intended that to be the case.
We now have a battle between the Executive and Judiciary over the legality of Executive Orders. Its funny that these same courts did not bat an eye over MaoBama's orders.

[LS]

But . . . But . . . He isn’t pouring concrete on the wall this minute.

[RightGeek]

Lol

[Sam Gamgee]

Just what I am thinking.