Trump will order a plan to shut down the US Education Department
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President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order calling for the shutdown of the Education Department.
  • jmantothe64@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    11 days ago

    Directly from ed.gov:

    In creating the Department of Education, Congress specified that: No provision of a program administered by the Secretary or by any other officer of the Department shall be construed to authorize the Secretary or any such officer to exercise any direction, supervision, or control over the curriculum, program of instruction, administration, or personnel of any educational institution, school, or school system…

    Don’t let anyone tell you they’re just getting rid of “woke dei curriculum”, they’re trying to screw over all the people who need the help of things like an IEP or 504 Plan by cutting staff for those programs, end subsidized loans, grants, etc for those who can’t afford college, you get the point. Be very glad that if you were able to get an education before this point that you did, and expect the interest rate on your student loans to go up…

  • kandoh@reddthat.com
    4·
    11 days ago

    Desperate to undue the conditions that allowed a black man to become president of the United States.

    Nothing more, nothing less. A black president was such an insulting aberation against the natural order to them they decided it is time to burn society to the ground.

  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldM
    31·
    11 days ago

    As outrageous as this is, it made me curious… for me, the Department of Education is just one of those things I’ve kind of always known about, but did you know that the current office and secretary was created in 1979? Under Jimmy Carter?

    🤯

    It’s amazing how… recent… a lot of these cabinet positions actually are:

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinet_of_the_United_States

    Homeland Security - 2003 (that tracks)
    Veterans Affairs - 1989
    Education - 1979
    (Previously “Health, Education, and Welfare”) - 1953
    Energy - 1977
    Transportation - 1967
    Housing and Urban Development - 1966
    Health and Human Services - 1980
    (Previously “Health, Education, and Welfare”) - 1953
    Labor - 1913
    (Previously “Commerce and Labor”) - 1903
    Commerce - 1913
    (Previously “Commerce and Labor”) - 1903
    Agriculture - 1862
    Interior - 1849
    Attorney General - 1789
    Defense - 1947
    (Previously “Secretary of War”) - 1789
    (Previously “Secretary of the Navy”) - 1798
    (Previously “Secretary AT War”) - 1783
    Treasury - 1789
    (Previously “Superintendent of Finance”) - 1771
    State - 1789
    (Previously “Secretary of foreign affairs”) - 1781
    Vice President - 1789