Anonymous wrote:The Department of Education makes a lot of grants to outside groups full of Democratic political activists. This is one reason the agency is being targeted. Loss of funding to those groups is bad news for the Democrats.

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Anonymous wrote:This is just rebranding the segregationist backlash to civil rights. Republicans want state and local schools to be permitted to discriminate against whomever they wish.

We HAVE to keep spending $250 billion a year on the Department of Education. They haven’t budged teat scores, but they might be able to fight racism in some way?

Reposting for the cheap seats in the back, dumb dumbs like you, and the truly in the dark so they don't fall for you crap:

Again, someone who completely misunderstands the Ed's mission. It is the SMALLEST cabinet dept because it has a few, discrete goals, and raising test scores is not one of them:

*Establishing policies on federal financial aid for education and distributing as well as monitoring those funds--hope no one you know filed FAFSA or needs free school lunch
*Collecting data on America's schools and disseminating research-this way we get to know LA and TX are at the bottom.
*Focusing national attention on key issues in education, and making recommendations for education reform--local school boards have the final say.
*Prohibiting discrimination and ensuring equal access to education--IEPs, IDEA, Title Nine.

So all this accomplishes is eliminating a tiny department that protects women, special education students, poor kids, and people trying to access higher ed.

Good work knowing nothing about anything

“Establishing policies….collecting data, focusing national attention”….all for zero improvement in educational outcomes? Yeah, the taxpayers would like their two trillion dollars back.

Anonymous wrote:NEW: Dept of Education staff received a notice telling them to leave the building by 6pm today, and that all ED offices in DC as well as regional offices will be closed tomorrow, per an email obtained by @CBSNews. No reason was given for the closures.

Anonymous wrote:Do you think those outside grant getting groups are filled with Republicans? Or do you think the Department of Education ISN’T doling out billions of dollars in grants?

Anonymous wrote:The Department of Education makes a lot of grants to outside groups full of Democratic political activists. This is one reason the agency is being targeted. Loss of funding to those groups is bad news for the Democrats.

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Anonymous wrote:This conversation has really gone off the deep end. Most of the comments are seeking to hold the Dept of Ed responsible for things managed at the state level, which includes the entirety of the k-12 curriculum. The dept of education mostly administers federal financial aid to college students and enforces the law so individual school districts don’t discriminate against children with special needs or other protected categories. That’s really the bulk of it. The Dept of Education policies that people may or may not like are typically presidential mandates like no child left behind.

While I agree with much of what you said, No Child Left Behind was very far from a presidential mandate. Yes, it was signed into law by a president (Bush I), but only because it passed through Congress with tremendous bipartisan support in both the House and Senate. It was a reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act that focused on standard-based education and accountability.

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Anonymous wrote:If you work for the Department of Education and are posting about how angry you are about losing your job, please realize only 27% of school-aged children between the 4th and 12th grade will be able to read it.

Pretty much those are kids with average IQs.

Whatever you have to tell yourself to keep your sanity.

We had a much better educated citizenry decades ago for K through 12.

Grade inflation has not helped. It's masking serious problems.

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Anonymous wrote:This conversation has really gone off the deep end. Most of the comments are seeking to hold the Dept of Ed responsible for things managed at the state level, which includes the entirety of the k-12 curriculum. The dept of education mostly administers federal financial aid to college students and enforces the law so individual school districts don’t discriminate against children with special needs or other protected categories. That’s really the bulk of it. The Dept of Education policies that people may or may not like are typically presidential mandates like no child left behind.

So yeah, like there many poor kids that went and got degrees on federal aid but can't get a decent job. Most of the college education system is just an elitist social sorting system. Many of these fafsa kids need to go do something else. I mean I wish college was a good way for kids from modest backgrounds to get ahead, but it just isn't.

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Anonymous wrote:If you work for the Department of Education and are posting about how angry you are about losing your job, please realize only 27% of school-aged children between the 4th and 12th grade will be able to read it.

Pretty much those are kids with average IQs.

Whatever you have to tell yourself to keep your sanity.

We had a much better educated citizenry decades ago for K through 12.

Grade inflation has not helped. It's masking serious problems.

Anonymous wrote:This conversation has really gone off the deep end. Most of the comments are seeking to hold the Dept of Ed responsible for things managed at the state level, which includes the entirety of the k-12 curriculum. The dept of education mostly administers federal financial aid to college students and enforces the law so individual school districts don’t discriminate against children with special needs or other protected categories. That’s really the bulk of it. The Dept of Education policies that people may or may not like are typically presidential mandates like no child left behind.

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Anonymous wrote:This conversation has really gone off the deep end. Most of the comments are seeking to hold the Dept of Ed responsible for things managed at the state level, which includes the entirety of the k-12 curriculum. The dept of education mostly administers federal financial aid to college students and enforces the law so individual school districts don’t discriminate against children with special needs or other protected categories. That’s really the bulk of it. The Dept of Education policies that people may or may not like are typically presidential mandates like no child left behind.

So yeah, like there many poor kids that went and got degrees on federal aid but can't get a decent job. Most of the college education system is just an elitist social sorting system. Many of these fafsa kids need to go do something else. I mean I wish college was a good way for kids from modest backgrounds to get ahead, but it just isn't.