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Zorro

(18,186 posts)
Tue Nov 18, 2025, 11:34 AM 12 hrs ago

Trump administration to announce dismantling of much of Education Dept.

Source: Washington Post

The Education Department plans to announce Tuesday that it will move multiple parts of the agency to other federal departments, an unprecedented and unilateral effort to dismantle an agency created by Congress to ensure all Americans have equal access to educational opportunity and better coordinate federal programs.

The move was described by three people informed of the plan ahead of the announcement. Two of these people said six offices within the department would be shifted elsewhere; the third person said it was at least two.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order in March seeking to close the department and asked Education Secretary Linda McMahon to work with Congress to do so. The agency, which was created in 1979, has long been derided by conservatives as unnecessary and ineffective. But Congress has not acted on or seriously considered Trump’s request.

McMahon has acknowledged that only Congress can eliminate the department but vowed to do everything in her power to dismantle it from within.

Read more: https://wapo.st/4i6ZRr5

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Trump administration to announce dismantling of much of Education Dept. (Original Post) Zorro 12 hrs ago OP
They DO NOT want educated voters period vapor2 12 hrs ago #1
Everything they take apart, will be rebuilt better. FirstLight 11 hrs ago #2
With a senate, none of it will be "rebuilt" PSPS 11 hrs ago #7
If the Department can be dismantled without an act of Congress speak easy 10 hrs ago #13
Respectfully what about.... electric_blue68 11 hrs ago #9
So what authority gives McMahon the right to dismantle it if it's created by Congress? mdbl 11 hrs ago #3
The authority apparently granted by the supremely-corrupted court PSPS 11 hrs ago #6
Nice to see they don't legislate from the bench. mdbl 11 hrs ago #8
I'm fine with old Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Just don't want to do it under an A-hole like trump. Silent Type 11 hrs ago #4
Teachers, leave them kids alone thought crime 11 hrs ago #5
Because he so loves the poorly educated Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 10 hrs ago #10
The GOP gilligan 10 hrs ago #11
I guess we found our replacement farmworkers. Buddyzbuddy 10 hrs ago #12
I'm NOT SURE about this purr-rat beauty 6 hrs ago #14

FirstLight

(15,751 posts)
2. Everything they take apart, will be rebuilt better.
Tue Nov 18, 2025, 12:05 PM
11 hrs ago

I used to freak out at stuff like this because I am back in college and thought it would mean the end of my chances for a degree...
But t he reality on the ground is that Universities and schools are going to continue teaching.
Yes, it may get bumpy, but teachers and students will continue to do their thing...

And when things turn around, it will be easier to rebuild these things in a better way... they are doing us a favor in the long run
Yes, I refuse to be upset or discouraged anymore.

PSPS

(15,108 posts)
7. With a senate, none of it will be "rebuilt"
Tue Nov 18, 2025, 12:40 PM
11 hrs ago

With our minority-rule governmental structure, senators representing as little as 11% of the voters can block anything.

speak easy

(12,520 posts)
13. If the Department can be dismantled without an act of Congress
Tue Nov 18, 2025, 01:27 PM
10 hrs ago

It can likewise be reassembled without Congress as well.

electric_blue68

(24,978 posts)
9. Respectfully what about....
Tue Nov 18, 2025, 12:57 PM
11 hrs ago
"to ensure all Americans have equal access to educational opportunity and better coordinate federal programs".

Isn't that going to possibly hurt low income, POC, certain disabled people, maaaybe women in certain cases real soon then?

I won't worry about tons of things all time - that's a way to bad emotional health. I don't have grand kids to directly worry about in this particular area of concern. Having said that; this is dismaying.

Regarding worrying: while enjoying a number of subjects, and activities bc I'm interested in them; I also use them as distractions from his hideous administration!

mdbl

(7,788 posts)
3. So what authority gives McMahon the right to dismantle it if it's created by Congress?
Tue Nov 18, 2025, 12:06 PM
11 hrs ago

Silent Type

(12,029 posts)
4. I'm fine with old Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Just don't want to do it under an A-hole like trump.
Tue Nov 18, 2025, 12:12 PM
11 hrs ago

thought crime

(1,018 posts)
5. Teachers, leave them kids alone
Tue Nov 18, 2025, 12:25 PM
11 hrs ago

Thought control is Truth Social's job.


Is this really necessary?

Buddyzbuddy

(1,926 posts)
12. I guess we found our replacement farmworkers.
Tue Nov 18, 2025, 01:14 PM
10 hrs ago

MAGA, MAGA, MAGA. Bunch of dumbsh*ts.

The Education Dept. was the best chance your children had of stopping the lifestyle in which those in poverty live. It is an equalizer for all of society. Now the Bible thumpers will have the control to teach your children how dinosaurs and man walked together.
Well done. I'm sad for your children.

purr-rat beauty

(849 posts)
14. I'm NOT SURE about this
Tue Nov 18, 2025, 05:18 PM
6 hrs ago

The Idiocracy trudges on like a flaming freight train stuffed with radiation

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