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Elon Musk & DOGE reveal Department of Education officials were using TAXPAYER DOLLARS to rent out STADIUMS and CAESAR'S PALACE for parties.. BLATANT THEFT. @elonmusk : "As soon as we started requiring them to upload receipts, all this spending STOPPED." ANOTHER reason to abolish the DoE! ... Everyone in governmenr does that. They have all of these conferences where they go and drink and eat and talk to each other and have little “panel discussions” to regurgitate information everyone always knows. I figured everyone knew about this grift? The community colleges in California would do 1-2 week retreats in Hawaii...

Over 1,300 federal employees impacted by the Department of Education’s March 11 reduction in force received their official separation notices Thursday, according to copies reviewed by ABC News. “It is with great regret that I must inform you that your position is being abolished and you have been reached for reduction in force (RIF) action,” the notices read, in part. The RIF was one of the first major steps in massively reducing the Education Department after President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing Secretary of Education Linda McMahon to close the agency on March 20. Both Trump and McMahon...

The Bush administration is poised to complete the biggest increase in government spending since the 1960s' "Great Society," the result of conducting the war on terrorism while substantially boosting the education and transportation budgets, according to a detailed analysis of government spending patterns...

Teachers unions and Democratic politicians joined in denouncing Donald Trump’s executive order aimed at eliminating the US Department of Education, with the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) saying simply: “See you in court.” Trump’s move was long trailed, so much so that Randi Weingarten, the head of the AFT – which represents 1.8 million teachers – put out her statement the day before the order was signed. Michael Mulgrew, president of the United Federation of Teachers, which represents 200,000 members, teachers and other education workers mostly in New York City, said: “We will join our national union and public education...

On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “AC360,” New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) said that she would make sure education funds are spent properly, but “Heaven help the Republican states who might take that money and do something that’s not focused on feeding hungry kids, helping kids with disabilities, and everyone else that the Department of Education helps.” And declared, “Just leave everybody alone. Leave the parents alone, leave the kids alone.” Hochul said, “Right now we get $6 billion from them in New York state, 2 billion for Pell Grants to give people a pathway to higher education, $2 billion...

The U.S. Department of Education will be "much smaller" but not eliminated by the executive order President Donald Trump is signing, according to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt. The department will continue to administer college student loans and Pell grants, enforce civil rights laws, and provide funding for low-income students and special education, Leavitt told reporters, The Guardian reported."The Department of Education will be much smaller than it is today," Leavitt commented, adding that "any critical functions" will remain after Trump signs the order at an event planned for 4 p.m. ET. "When it comes to student loans and...

Education Secretary Linda McMahon told Newsmax on Tuesday night that the planned cuts to about 50% of her agency's workforce began earlier the day with email notices sent to affected employees.Before President Donald Trump's inauguration, the department said it had 4,133 employees and it will have 2,138 after the cuts. Included in the workforce reduction are nearly 600 employees who accepted voluntary resignation opportunities and retirement over the past seven weeks."We wanted to make sure that everybody got [their notice] before they left [for the day]," McMahon told "The Record With Greta Van Susteren." "But [we met with] their department...

President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Thursday that aims to shut down the Department of Education, fulfilling a key campaign pledge, the White House said in a fact sheet on the measure.The order directs Education Secretary Linda McMahon to "take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure (of) the Department of Education and return education authority to the States, while continuing to ensure the effective and uninterrupted delivery of services, programs, and benefits on which Americans rely."It also mandates that any programs or activities receiving remaining Department of Education funds should not "advance DEI or gender ideology."

WASHINGTON, March 17 (Yonhap) -- A U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) laboratory contractor employee was terminated after attempting to board a flight to South Korea with export controlled information on nuclear reactor design software, a report showed Monday. Idaho National Laboratory (INL) terminated the person during the reporting period from Oct. 1, 2023 through March 31 last year, the DOE Office of the Inspector General (OIG)'s report to Congress said, as questions persist over why South Korea was placed in the lowest category of the DOE's "Sensitive and Other Designated Countries List (SCL)" in early January. The information in question...

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...

President Donald Trump’s ultimate goal is to eliminate the Department of Education and shift control back to the states. The DOE is essentially an unnecessary middleman anyway. Federal dollars will eventually bypass the eliminated DOE and the states will handle everything themselves. Trump currently wants to slash 50% of the DOE’s staff, many workers have already resigned. It’s enough to make a Democrat who pretended to be a Native American cry.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “All In,” Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) responded to plans to eliminate the federal Department of Education by claiming that “Ruby Bridges needed to be escorted into those schools and the folks who went into Little Rock because we didn’t have an Education Department that ensured her civil rights were respected. That’s gone now.” And stated that “when Trump says it’s a bunch of bureaucrats interfering with your local schools, give local control, we’ll give you the money, it sounds pretty good. And we have not provided what that alternative looks like.” Walz said, “What...

Federal workers at the U.S. Department of Education received an email on Tuesday instructing them to vacate their offices no later than 6:00PM and that the department’s offices will remain closed on Wednesday as well. The directive states the closure is for “security reasons.”“Beginning today at 6:00 p.m., all ED offices in the National Capital Region (NCR) will be closed for security reasons. Employees must vacate the building by that time,” the email states, adding: “All ED offices in the NCR and the regions will be closed to employees and contractor employees on Wednesday, March 12th.”The directive goes on to...

The Department of Education warned 60 colleges and universities Monday that they could be next to have federal funding taken away over antisemitic discrimination and harassment. Those named and shamed included six of the eight Ivy League institutions — Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Princeton and Yale — and local schools Rutgers, Rutgers-Newark, Sarah Lawrence, three branches of the State University of New York, The New School and Wellesley. Monday’s announcement comes three days after the Trump administration’s federal antisemitism task force pulled back $400 million in grants and contracts from Columbia following monthslong Jew-hating demonstrations following the Oct. 7, 2023,...

President Trump’s fixation reinvigorated the debate over the role of the federal government in education, and created a powerful point of unity between the factions of his party.Two months after the Education Department officially opened its doors in 1980, Republicans approved a policy platform calling on Congress to shut it down. Now, more than four decades later, President Trump may come closer than any other Republican president to making that dream a reality. Though doing away with the agency would require an act of Congress, Mr. Trump has devoted himself to the goal, and is said to be preparing an...

The U.S. Department of Education launched a public portal on Thursday for parents, students, teachers, and communities to submit reports of sex and race-based discrimination in public K-12 schools.The portal is called the “End DEI” portal and allows the submission of an email address, the name of a student’s school or school district, and a text box with 450-word limit for detailing concerning practices.“Schools should be focused on learning,” the top of the portal page reads.“The U.S. Department of Education is committed to ensuring all students have access to meaningful learning free of divisive ideologies and indoctrination,” the portal description...

A federal judge in Maryland has blocked the Department of Education and Office of Personnel Management from sharing the personal information of plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the Trump administration with Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency. U.S. District Judge Deborah L. Boardman issued a temporary restraining order Monday on both agencies and wrote in an opinion that the plaintiffs in the case, which include members of several major unions, showed that the Education Department and OPM "likely violated the Privacy Act by disclosing their personal information to DOGE affiliates without their consent."

The Department of Education just got BUSTED running a rogue “sanctuary program” for illegal immigrants while hiding secrets from DOGE and Congress via an encrypted messaging app. This conspiracy was revealed by Project Veritas, which dropped a bombshell video exposing Travis Combs, Branch Chief for Applied Innovation and Improvement at the U.S. Department of Education (DOE). In the undercover footage, Combs admits that DOE employees are intentionally using the encrypted messaging app Signal to hide internal conversations from oversight. “If you want to have a conversation with somebody, you do have to take it offline, but you’re not supposed to....

In the more than four decades since the Department of Education was created in 1979, it has spent literally TRILLIONS of dollars, presumably to make America’s youth smarter and more competitive. But what’s been the result? Well, just take a look at the National Center for Education Statistics’ (NCES) long-term reading and mathematics assessments for 13-year-old students. In 1980— the Department of Education’s first year operating— reading scores averaged 258. The most recent data, from 2023, shows scores average 256. So test scores declined. And it’s even worse among the lower-level students; the bottom 10% had an even steeper decline,...

Project Veritas released undercover video of Travis Combs, Branch Chief for Applied Innovation and Improvement at the US Department of Education, describing how the agency is hiding secrets from Congress and DOGE by communicating on encrypted app, Signal. “It’s insanity. ‘Democracy Falling’ should be the title of the movie,” Travis Combs, a 5-year veteran at the department said. Travis Combs told the undercover PV reporter that federal employees in the DOE are evading Congress and oversight. “The one nice thing about the program that I work in is that we don’t ask [citizenship] status, and we’ve been able to keep...