The Trump administration says its plan to dismantle the Education Department offers a fix for the nation’s lagging academics — a solution that could free schools from the strictures of federal influence.
Yet to some school and state officials, the plan appears to add more bureaucracy, with no clear benefit for students who struggle with math or reading.
Instead of being housed in a single agency, much of the Education Department’s work now will be spread across four other federal departments. For Donald Trump, it’s a step toward fully closing the department and giving states more power over schooling. Yet many states say it will complicate their role as intermediaries between local schools and the federal government.
“I love the poorly educated”- Trump, 2016
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You sound like the reason kids shouldn’t be homeschooled.
They’re shifting work that all has to do with education onto a bunch of departments that don’t do education work, which will cause massive reduplication of efforts while results are diminished. America’s public school system was once the envy of the world, when we invested in ourselves and our strong welfare state, our social democracy. It’s what put us ahead and made us the superpower we once loved, but now half of America hates and wants to tear down. Everyone benefits from strong public education, society benefits, that’s why we have a government to begin with. If you want to just be lawless, go somewhere else, that’s not America.
This is a pretty obtuse take on the Department of Education. When “massive cuts” equaling close to half of those who manage student loans within the department is less than 5000 people, you’re already looking at a starved and underfunded program. The DoE has been the punching bag of anti-intellectualism for decades. Of course there are much needed improvements to make for better efficacy. However, dismantling and fracturing it entirely, forcing state-run public education administrations to scramble around to various departments to secure funding, recategorizing professional degrees to invalidate loan programs, wiping other programs out entirely that fight food insecurity…the list can go on… These are not improvements to the current state of education.
This is intentionally removing one of the most important resources for social and financial mobility by fragmenting the foundation of education. We should be embarrassed.
Most people have to work and do not have the time to home school their children.
The unintelligent are easily led. This truth is painfully evident within the manner in which he was able to find himself elected-
TWICE.
I worry people already don’t know the difference between multiplying and adding bureaucracy.
Oh the irony
Anything the Republicans touch is just to make it worse so they can instill unregulated private industry which will do a garbage job and serve profits
2+2=4 in every state in the country. AEIOU and sometimes Y are the vowels in every state in this country. We don’t need 50 states providing 50 different interpretations of basic educational facts.
The educational curriculum in this country should be organized and managed by the Federal government, and the states’ only job should be to implement it. All Americans should receive the same basic comprehensive education, and states shouldn’t be able to customize it to their “values.” Nobody is interested in Alabama’s unique take on American History.
Eh, conversely if California decides to teach something progressive should the federal government be able to restrict that? States can also mitigate shitty federal programs.
I don’t think the federal standards ever restricted anything additive. It was always more like minimum standards and equal opportunity. Even with standardized tests, you’re just setting minimum standards. It’s only a problem if you don’t teach those.
So Oklahoma teaching white power will fail to meet minimum standards or equal opportunity, but California adding climate change education is just better education
No, the curriculum should be decided by a panel of experts in their respective fields, and politicians should be absolutely barred from participating in the process at all. They don’t get to manipulate the minds of our youngest generations for their own nefarious objectives.
If California can start altering the Federally mandated curriculum because THEY decided it needed it, then so can some shithole state like Alabama or Mississippi. And besides, who are THEY that are making these educational decisions? I will put my confidence in a well chosen panel of scholarly academic experts before I’ll let 6th grade educated school board member Bubba Redneck decide what my kids need to learn.
No, states will not be allowed to create their own agendas. They will teach the horrors of slavery, the Native American genocide, the Holocaust, Critical Thinking Skills, the dangers of Political Extremism, how to defend Democracy against domestic terrorists, the crimes of the Trump Administrations, etc , and anyone who doesn’t like it, can simply fuck right off. Nobody is asking for their bigoted, ignorant input on what future American citizens need to learn.
Best we can do is ask grok for a curriculum, let Elon edit its response, then pass it by a panel of lobbyists and the last koch brother
Because everyone knows removing the standards suddenly makes people follow them…
Their plans for education in project 2025 are terrible. They want to set up education saving funds instead of funding public ed. People will have to start shopping for an education. Imagine the bloat and costs of colleges but now for preschools.
Yep, this is what they want. All cost of college but for an extra 12 years.
Florida is all in
Just get rid of the elitism/nepotism at a lot of universities and subsidize/eliminate the cost for a basic 2-yr degree.
Wow so ez
