President Trump signed an executive order to dismantle the Department of Education, aiming to eliminate federal bureaucracy and restore local control over education policy.
The move, long championed by conservatives, is seen as completing the vision of Ronald Reagan, who sought to abolish the department in the 1980s.
Education Secretary Linda McMahon assured that funding for critical programs like Pell grants and resources for children with disabilities will be preserved, but transferred to other agencies.
Proponents argue that the federal department has failed to improve student outcomes despite massive spending increases, pointing to declining math and reading scores as evidence that state and local governments are better equipped to handle education.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry welcomed the decision, pledging to use federal funds as block grants to enhance public schooling without federal strings attached.
Supporters of the closure argue that the Department of Education has become an inefficient bureaucracy that stifles state-led educational innovations and lacks tangible success in boosting student performance.
Jonathan Williams of the American Legislative Exchange Council praised the decision as a step toward educational freedom and parental empowerment.
While critics, including teachers’ unions, warn of severe impacts on class sizes, job training, and special education services, McMahon said that no essential services will be cut.
The lefty wailings 3.2.1…
Future generations will be thankful for the intellectual advantages, that will result, from prising the woke liberal chokehold from education.
Now for it occur in NZ?
Even sheeple will/are waking up. Everywhere. Talk to anyone, really.
WE see it, THEY can’t.
3.2.1…yessss baby!
tttthey r just a bit slow to comprehend
The Department of ‘Education’ has been instrumental in disregarding alternative and real-life education ever since it’s Communist inception.
It was also instrumental in shutting down Trump University…and forcing many Correspondence Universities that awarded credit for life experience to move overseas.
Those University and College Regents who pushed to recognise life experience thru employment, alternative education, etc. saw what was happening in the U.S. and raised hell about the Tertiary Values and Uni / College Entrance being based on scores, and who the families of those applying to enrol were.
The Regents recognised that some of the best and brightest were being turned away due to who they weren’t, lack of affordability to pay the now outrageous tuition, and the refusal to accept college credit and semester hours from other schools.
Many refused to administer college and university by-pass exams, and also in giving credit for military courses and services.
But then again- there are graduates who are now living in tents…and Professors are also in that population due to the lack of ..’Political Correctness’ or refusing to bow down and cater to the J3wi$h control of the institutions posing as ‘higher education’!
The Tertiary and Technical Schools had better take note- if you want to ‘stay in business’ then you had better start expanding your methods of awarding credit from employment, experience, and previous credit / semester hours from schools that you are not currently doing.
Massey, Nelson, & Southern refused to recognise my father’s U.S. FAA Certifications, and his MSc from overseas for the purpose of awarding a NZQA qualification(s)!
Education systems make people thick. Just as health systems make people sick.
New Zealand politicians, take notice how its done.
Cancel all the useless departments we dont need or are making the wrong policies. Put the power back into the schools, the business.
Yep. Not a bad idea.
Sinister depraved indoctrinated trans-woke communist morons in charge of children’s education may not be a good idea as it’s turned out.
Huh, nobody was that one coming…