Psyched! He's closing the Department of Education in Washignton DC

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Anonymous wrote:Why? I looked up and DC is ranked #16 in education in the country. That’s not a bad rank.

The top 10 best educated states are all blue states. It won’t change them. The poor states like Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, etc will be negatively affected.

They arleady mostly send GOP to Washington anyhow, so status quo.

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Anonymous wrote:Where is the original source of the video? It looks like a campaign promise, not a formal policy statement.

This is the most important post on this thread. Let’s see the implementation once he’s in office.

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Anonymous wrote:So no more special education, no more FAFSA, no more Pell Grants.

I guess the goal is to keep everyone stupid and poor.

No just re route to other agencies

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So no more special education, no more FAFSA, no more Pell Grants.

I guess the goal is to keep everyone stupid and poor.

No just re route to other agencies

Yeah, CBP for deportations.

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He's not wrong that American education is terrible. I don't know what the Dept. of Educ. has done right in years. Can anyone tell me what the plan being implemented is to ameliorate the terrible effects of school closures on education?

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Anonymous wrote:Serious question-what role does DoE play for universities/colleges? Federal financial aid? Anything else?

PELL grants, and not college but I believe some transitional programs post grad for young adults with special needs.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a former Virginian and live in Lenexa, KS - a “red” state. Trust me, we’ll do just fine if we eliminated all payments to DC to get back back funding, but with certain strings attached.

This really shouldn’t even be a political thing. My great grandmother was educated in a log cabin with a slate and chalk tablet and sharing books. She read and studied insatiably and was very well educated.

Oh yeah, Kansas is totally pro at this:

"Hard times for Kansas and its schools as economic ‘experiment’ creates gaping budget hole"

https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-kansas-hard-times-snap-20161121-story.html

It'll be interesting to see if all the Trump voters double down on Trump as their states start flailing.

Yes-and Lenexa, Ks is a bubble within Kansas. It is in a well-to-do county and has a well-funded school district. It's not like many other locations in the state.

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Anonymous wrote:This whole thing is to get support for vouchers and charter schools off the ground when the disaster ensues. Is he going to give the title I money back to the states also or have make do with the local taxes?

Yup. That's why he had Betsy DeVos. If they can divert money from states for private schools they run, they make $$$.

Grifters gonna grift (and keep the proletariat uneducated so they don't rise up). Religious school for all!

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Anonymous wrote:Now, on to the Department of Labor.

How about Social Security, VA and HHS? Those moochers need to stop asking for handouts too.

I actually think tackling the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid are more important. Between those two, they have a budget of $1.8 Trillion per year.

That's sinking us to the point where we're borrowing 55 cents of every dollar spent. Gotta stop. Math says so.

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Anonymous wrote:This whole thing is to get support for vouchers and charter schools off the ground when the disaster ensues. Is he going to give the title I money back to the states also or have make do with the local taxes?

Yup. That's why he had Betsy DeVos. If they can divert money from states for private schools they run, they make $$$.

Grifters gonna grift (and keep the proletariat uneducated so they don't rise up). Religious school for all!

No one said religious schools for all. Stop assigning your leftist talking points to it.

It means less bureaucracy and layers of useless people.

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Anonymous wrote:He's not wrong that American education is terrible. I don't know what the Dept. of Educ. has done right in years. Can anyone tell me what the plan being implemented is to ameliorate the terrible effects of school closures on education?

Most of these problems can be pointed at your state and local school boards. DOE sent billions to the schools for Covid and many districts pissed it away on useless Ed tech and other wasteful practices.

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Anonymous wrote:Why? I looked up and DC is ranked #16 in education in the country. That’s not a bad rank.

The top 10 best educated states are all blue states. It won’t change them. The poor states like Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, etc will be negatively affected.

But that's not really a far fall at this point.

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Bush Jr killed education during his term so I guess there's not much left to do except put the tombstone on it

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Anonymous wrote:Where is the original source of the video? It looks like a campaign promise, not a formal policy statement.

This is the most important post on this thread. Let’s see the implementation once he’s in office.

What I really love is learning that apparently half the country thinks that you can predict what Trump will do by putting out a raw beef brisket, pot-shooting the vultures tat come to feed on it, taking a sharpened spoon to their bellies, and then reading the entrails. That's great. Not only are we guessing at how to parse out what he means, what he really means, and what he really really extra-scoop means, but we are also ignoring the machinery put in place of judges from the bottom up that he appointed (not just SCOTUS), his directives to skirt around the congressional approval of appointments, and all of the money poured into this by foreign and domestic oligarchs.

Greeeeaaaat. Love it.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Now, on to the Department of Labor.

How about Social Security, VA and HHS? Those moochers need to stop asking for handouts too.

I actually think tackling the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid are more important. Between those two, they have a budget of $1.8 Trillion per year.

That's sinking us to the point where we're borrowing 55 cents of every dollar spent. Gotta stop. Math says so.

Did you hear about our future Senate majority leader and Medicare? He might have some of those funds.