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groundloop

(13,451 posts)
Tue Nov 18, 2025, 09:16 PM 9 hrs ago

Reports: Education Department to announce duties transfers

Source: UPI

Unnamed officials with the Department of Education say its leaders will announce the transfer of some duties to other federal agencies Tuesday amid the department's downsizing.

Unnamed sources told Politico, CNN and The Washington Post that the duty transfers will be announced sometime on Tuesday afternoon.

Education Secretary Linda McMahon cited the 43-day federal government shutdown as evidence that the department is unnecessary.

"Forty-three days of a government shutdown, and schools stayed open, students went to class and teachers got paid," she said Monday night. "Makes you wonder ... do we really need [the Education Department] at all?"

Read more: https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/11/18/education-department-duties/1221763491671/



Only Congress can dissolve the Education Department, but tRump is sure the hell doing the next best thing by putting totally unqualified people in charge of it and dismantling it from within.
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Reports: Education Department to announce duties transfers (Original Post) groundloop 9 hrs ago OP
Okay... OldBaldy1701E 8 hrs ago #1
They won't be happy until there are no more public schools... slightlv 7 hrs ago #2
Lest We Forget How The Undermining And Destruction.... ColoringFool 7 hrs ago #3

OldBaldy1701E

(9,555 posts)
1. Okay...
Tue Nov 18, 2025, 10:05 PM
8 hrs ago

Isn't the school situation the result of the states keeping them open and operating?

Teachers got paid? You mean they got their usual pittance with little support or means to live without other work? That 'paid'?

The only thing that I wonder about needing is you, Linda. And, to be honest, I don't wonder about it at all. I know the answer.

slightlv

(7,050 posts)
2. They won't be happy until there are no more public schools...
Tue Nov 18, 2025, 11:01 PM
7 hrs ago

only private and ultimately too expensive schools... or xtian madrassas for everyone else.

ColoringFool

(101 posts)
3. Lest We Forget How The Undermining And Destruction....
Tue Nov 18, 2025, 11:13 PM
7 hrs ago

Continue unabated, even though not regularly in the media.

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