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 Trumps request.
McMahon has acknowledged that only Congress can eliminate the department but vowed to do everything in her power to dismantle it from within.
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vapor2
(3,452 posts)FirstLight
(15,751 posts)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)With our minority-rule governmental structure, senators representing as little as 11% of the voters can block anything.
speak easy
(12,520 posts)It can likewise be reassembled without Congress as well.
electric_blue68
(24,978 posts)"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)PSPS
(15,108 posts)mdbl
(7,788 posts)Silent Type
(12,029 posts)thought crime
(1,018 posts)Thought control is Truth Social's job.
Is this really necessary?
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(131,101 posts)gilligan
(216 posts)I Love the Poorly Educated.
Buddyzbuddy
(1,926 posts)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)The Idiocracy trudges on like a flaming freight train stuffed with radiation