Donald Trump Signed an Executive Order to Eliminate the U.S. Department of Education.
Donald Trump Signed an Executive Order to Eliminate the U.S. Department of Education.
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to enable parents, teachers, and
Sec. 2. Closing the Department of Education and Returning Authority to the States. (a) The Secretary of Education shall, to the maximum extent appropriate and permitted by law, take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Department of Education and return authority over education to the States and local communities while ensuring the effective and uninterrupted delivery of services, programs, and benefits on which Americans rely.
The Department of Education currently manages a student loan debt portfolio of more than $1.6 trillion. This means the Federal student aid program is roughly the size of one of the Nation’s largest banks, Wells Fargo. But although Wells Fargo has more than 200,000 employees, the Department of Education has fewer than 1,500 in its Office of Federal Student Aid. The Department of Education is not a bank, and it must return bank functions to an entity equipped to serve America’s students.
Move student loans to private banks! There it is.
This dude is disgusting a traitor and by far one of the most vile men to walk this earth all he's missing is millions of dead bodies like his Nazi idol.
America is disgusting.
Where's all that talk about "my 2nd amendment rights" wake up America you're a fascist country now. Use your guns before it's too late.
So I assume all the special ed money in Red states will now just go into a slush fund to accelerate executions, and an amplification of attacks on marginalized groups instead of helping kids/families.
Was on the radio, some notes:
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The responsibility of FAFSA (which is 2/3 of it's budget) likely goes to Treasury and honestly I don't think they can realistically pull that back legally, at least anytime soon. Disability funds supposedly will move somewhere too.
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The DoE itself likely will exist in the same limbo as USAID since legally it requires Congress, and judges can and will challenge illegal moves. That said, I say limbo because USAID may have got people back but empty buildings and ongoing stuff is ruined. Expect that from DoE, even though it shouldn't be allowed.
My own info, though, is they only provide public schools about 5 to 10% budget on average, and yes, it's heavily towards rural districts. This likely will have very little impact on blue states, although don't go celebrating as budgets are already tight in several places and even blue states will cut into education to fund other things like fire relief. Our Blue states are still no where near as good as many European and Asian country educational institutions.
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My God, this is beyond sad.
I think the practical problems with this are going to be weird. The federal Department of Education is pretty small and doesn’t set as much policy as people assume since that’s 90% done at the state and local level. The college student loan program is a huge component and could theoretically be ruined or just moved to Treasury or HHS or whatever.
The rest is mostly grants to state and local governments and red state politicians are going to be even more pissed than blue if they kill those and put a hole in their budget that has to be filled. (Doesn’t mean they won’t do it but it’s not going to please any governors/legislators.)
The people who will likely suffer most are special ed students since those grants are, obviously, for public schools and private/parochial schools basically never have programs for students with severe, profound, or mild autism. (I don’t know the current terms but when I was in high school, people with, for instance, autism were classified as severe, profound, mild, or moderate based on where they fell on the spectrum. Those terms are probably outdated or were unique to my school system.)
Super embarrassing. Fucking idiots and their followers
The fun thing is that authority over education is already in the hands of the states. And I bet that ED is already understaffed, so they probably can't ensure the things in the last line if they fire people. All that makes the order effectively already met.
Well, if you don't live in a city shit is about to get bad. Public education was basically one key thing keeping the US as a first world nation.
Just wait til the red states get mad that blue states won't take their spawn in for a college education due to being said far behind what is expected of someone to graduate from a blue stat HS
Remember, he loves the poorly educated.
"I love the poorly educated"- Trump, 2016
The conservatives have been objecting to the Dept of Education since its inception just after the Civil War.
Their objectio then is the same now. Alrhough they don't say it out loud anymore.
That it is dangerous, to the wealthy, to educate the lower classes
America is an unserious country.
Mexico education levels coming right up! Oh nevermind they're ahead now...Colombia! Peru? Angola? Ah! Antarctica! The king penguin colony! Penguins are retarded. You can tell because the males give ugly rocks to the females.
"I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!" vibes.
It would be hilarious if some judge deems this order illegal because the Secretary can’t do what the order calls for if it means they have no department to run.
Well, he does love the uneducated...
Gotta be a new rule/law made that your EO is invalidated if you preface it with provably false info. Authority already lies with the states. If they rejected Federal funds they'd practically achieve the same end goal. Main difference being blue states can't get the funding either and civil rights violations will go unchecked.
HE got by without an education. So can you.