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Congratulations!! This means the average person in America is already too educated. Right!? Right?
Super embarrassing. Fucking idiots and their followers
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.
This will be in the courts by the end of next week marking it unconstitutional
And then nothing will be done about it.
Was on the radio, some notes:
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.
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.
I think they do something like "soft secession". Instead of breaking the federation apart officially, they're eroding the federation (federal government) to the point where it's no longer relevant. They talk about "state's rights".
Legit should have just let the CSA go after burning them to the ground.
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.
This isn't something Trump would even care about. He's being handled very well this time around.
Remember Rick Perry wanted to close the department of Education as well. It's been on the Republican checklist for a while now.
This is that you voted for protest-non-voters. Congratulations!
Like Schumer isn't whipping up a bipartisan support bill right now to signal his "willingness to compromise"
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
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.)
put a hole in their budget that has to be filled.
Who says it has to be filled? Republicans certainly don't.
In normal times, I’d say it’s complicated. There’s a lot of suburban parents who are busy and tune out the news but get very politically activated if you start fucking with schools (and student aid because that’s fucking with their money).
Not sure if MAGA cares — I don’t know if we’ll even have elections — but don’t underestimate parents to be late to the fight but then want to gouge out a politician’s eyes.
They were super happy to see marginalized kids get abused and bullied, but when they realize this will affect their "angel" I think we might see Trump try and backtrack on this.
"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.
"I love the poorly educated"- Trump, 2016