Why do Trumpers want to abolish the Department of Education? Because it’s in charge of prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race and sex in schools that get federal funding, a policy Congress set in 1975 through the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).
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They talk or lie that it is huge and does nothing?
They make sure Standards are met and the $ for Special Ed and Special needs is being used properly! Texas tajes the $ and does not follow the Rules! Get sued every year!
And it is horrible…
...on the surface it was about "why should I pay for poor people's kid's education" and "I don't like what Fox tells me they're teaching". Now it includes the absurd MAGA stuff too.
...all along it was really about keeping public education quality low, because the poor/uneducated are easy to frighten with absurdities.
The end goal; high-contrast social stratification.
Good for the Rich, bad for everyone else.
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2021/04/28/iowa-senate-passes-charter-school-bill-house-file-813-sending-governor-kim-reynolds-desk/4863186001/
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/education/2024/06/13/iowa-book-ban-battle-the-story-behind-sweeping-ban-george-orwell-margaret-atwood-john-green/74071601007/
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/biden-authorized-ukraine-strike-russia-long-range-missiles-rcna180547
https://l.smartnews.com/p-veFvM/74nKOM
education is like Kryptonite to trumpers
Not that this distinction would help save the program.
A Citizens United “swamp.”
Billionaires are heading up our public institutions. Their goal is to grind them up & spit them out.
How will that help you? It won’t.
Musk will cut the social safety net but not his taxpayer funded gov contracts.
The issue is Govern-Minds as a concept not all these little de-part-ments (to part minds)
Everything is Hiddenin Plain Sight
Under-Stand, see the foundation to which the words are formed from, by standing/seeing under the words=sword being used against you
The word "discrimination" doesn't mean what you think it means.
And why are Dems against school choice that would help the underprivileged get a decent education?
Welcome to the United States of undiagnosed psychosis.
The last vestige of Jimmy Carter…it’s time.
If you follow their logic to conclusion. The goal is no taxes, no regulation, sure but beyond that, no government.
Why? Because Netflix, McDonalds, Amazon, Google, Facebook, unfettered will govern through economics. And it will overwhelmingly benefit their passive income investors.
The most corrupt group to ever UNDUE the protections that have been established in the past
Their goal is to return to the glorious 1850’s
Teach only the bible, women/blacks are treated as property while everything is for sale to the highest bidder
Local authorities can make an informal enquiry to check that your child is getting a suitable education at home. If they don't think they are they can serve a School Attendance Order - child must be registered with a school they choose and attend that school.
Your religious homeschoolers would be incandescent with rage if this happened to them.
What are you, a LAWYER or something (the dumbest bunch in the bag)
The United States ranked:
27th in reading out of 79 countries.
30th in science out of 79 countries.
35th in mathematics out of 79 countries.
Donald Trump
They want an ignorant public.