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It turns out the ones indoctrinating the kids have been the conservatives all along.

Fuck school choice vouchers.

The stupidest part of all this is its going to hurt the red states the most. Blue states already have great education

But although Wells Fargo has more than 200,000 employees, the Department of Education has fewer than 1,500 in its Office of Federal Student Aid.

So it's more efficient than a bank, BUT needs to be run by an actual bank? How stupid does he think we are?

The Department of Education currently manages a student loan debt portfolio of more than $1.6 trillion.  This means the Federal student aid program is roughly the size of one of the Nation’s largest banks, Wells Fargo.  But although Wells Fargo has more than 200,000 employees, the Department of Education has fewer than 1,500 in its Office of Federal Student Aid.  The Department of Education is not a bank, and it must return bank functions to an entity equipped to serve America’s students.

Move student loans to private banks! There it is.

The Department of Education was established by Congress. Elimination of it will take an act of Congress. This man is the biggest puppet ever.

This dude is disgusting a traitor and by far one of the most vile men to walk this earth all he's missing is millions of dead bodies like his Nazi idol.

America is disgusting.

Where's all that talk about "my 2nd amendment rights" wake up America you're a fascist country now. Use your guns before it's too late.

The US is rapidly becoming the world's largest third-world country.

But he needs Congressional approval to do so.

Wow.

I looked at the articles that was expecting for that to happen today, never thought he would actually do it.

I'm sorry anyone in a red state. You and your children will never learn a goddamn thing of worth again. Fuck this country.

Because US Americans are too damn educated today and we need them to be less educated /s

Congratulations!! This means the average person in America is already too educated. Right!? Right?

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.

USA is becoming a dictatorship in 10... 9... 8... 7...

Does this mean schools can now give as many trans rights as they want? State rights?

Was on the radio, some notes:

1. 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.

2. 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.

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.

My God, this is beyond sad.

Is america already great again?

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.)

Super embarrassing. Fucking idiots and their followers

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".