Posted on 05/21/2025 9:44:47 AM PDT by Twotone
In stark contrast to the previous administration's DEI-ladened grant programs and priorities, U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon said Tuesday her three priorities for grants are focusing on literacy, school choice, and states’ freedom.
McMahon’s “first three proposed priorities” for the U.S. Department of Education discretionary grants include “evidence-based literacy, expanding education choice, and returning education to the states,” according to a news release.
“These will be used in grant competitions across the Department to address the urgent needs of our students, families, and states,” the release said.
The Department of Education did not immediately respond to The Center Square’s request for comment.
The priority of evidence-based literacy “will promote literacy instruction based on evidence to ensure that proven methods based in the science of reading will be used to help our students learn to read,” according to the release.
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They are not going to push to have the Department of Education abolished.
They lied.
She should add requirements for parental notification by schools to that list.
Yep. And when the lefties get back in charge, anything good accomplished by Trump will be 86’d.
Why would they add anything to a department they plan to abolish? If abolishing is the future plan, then no other future plans need to be made.
This is a campaign promise that is not kept and will not be kept.
Come 2032 the Department will still be here. It will not be abolished.
Please get rid of the Department of Education, please!!
I agree, but even now, we have seen the end of all action.
The Executive Order was all that was coming. It was all just a show.
Theatrics.
“Evidence-based literacy” is the educational establishment’s term for grudgingly returning to something like the phonics that they have resisted for three gereations now.
Mark Steyn has a line that goes something like this: “at first I was afraid they were going to cause a civil war, but now I’m afraid that they aren’t.” Not perfect but close enough. He has come closer & closer to insinuating it’s time to use that “other” amendment. I can’t say I disagree. The Democrats are flat out communists & the Republicans are just barely better. Barely.
Mississippi reintroduced phonics to its reading instruction a few years ago. Since then the state’s students have made major gains in reading levels of its 3rd and 8th grade students.
Bring back phonics nationwide. The “whole word” recognition concept of teaching reading was so foolish only a liberal would think it could work. Even at age 60+, if I stumble across a word I’m unfamiliar with, I sound it out.
The federal Department of Education has made so many ignorant decisions throughout the years the only reasonable solution is that the department should be 86’d.
Check the latest bill signed by WA state’s gov prohibiting parental notification in several instances, including that of a student being sexually assaulted.
Phonics and arithmetic memorization has always made perfect sense.
It won't happen because Congress needs to do it. McMahon is doing her best to move the ball in that direction.
“McMahon is doing her best to move the ball in that direction.”
What specific actions is McMahon taking in this very specific context of seeing Congress abolish DoEd?
Just re-publish readers from the 1830s through 1860s, ones that have those rules in them.
They are short, simple, light weight, won't break the kids' backs carrying them.
They are much easier to teach and learn from that the present trash.
They are what we used when we homeschooled.
A friend, who sat on Harvard think tanks on the subject of teaching reading was shocked that when he tested our 3rd grade level daughter, she was reading at the second year college level.
I told him we didn't just prove that she was a great reader, but that our country was in deep crap.
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