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The Education Department plans to announce Tuesday that it will move multiple parts of the agency to other federal departments, an unprecedented and unilateral effort to dismantle an agency created by Congress to ensure all Americans have equal access to educational opportunity and better coordinate federal programs.

The move was described by three people informed of the plan ahead of the announcement. Two of these people said six offices within the department would be shifted elsewhere; the third person said it was at least two.

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[–] comrade_twisty@feddit.org 60 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Who needs edumacation anyways, Brawndo has what plants crave!

[–] Typhoon@lemmy.ca 48 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Lack of education will make America great again.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 34 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

It's how you compete with China. While they waste money and effort on education, science, engineering, infrastructure and so on, you sit back with Jesus, a sense of white supremacy, a cool beer, and a truck in the front yard you'll put wheels on next month.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Median pay in the U.S. for no high school degree is 37,492. Median 1 bedroom apartment- 1,500. At $18,000 a year before utilities they can't get approved for a lease. So unless they are crashing at someone else's place the beer isn't cold, and the truck is their house and depending on what state they live in they are considered to be illegal to live in it..

So much for having a trad-wife or whatever, they'll need a sugar mama

[–] KneeTitts@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago

Lack of education will make America great again

Lack of education made Amerika what it is right now

[–] inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 44 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

McMahon has argued that the recently ended government shutdown showed how unnecessary her agency is. “Students kept going to class. Teachers continued to get paid. There were no disruptions in sports seasons or bus routes,” she wrote. “The shutdown proved an argument that conservatives have been making for 45 years: The U.S. Department of Education is mostly a pass-through for funds that are best managed by the states.”

As always, the question is "States rights to do what?". And when it comes to education, we all know the answer is abstinence, creationism and the benefits of slavery.

Federal law directs that these programs be housed in the Education Department. The Trump administration is employing a work-around, the people briefed on the matter said, whereby other government agencies would run the Education programs under a contract with the Education Department.

I'm not sure if I am relieved that they aren't even doing the state control BS.

[–] tonytins@pawb.social 6 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

I’m not sure if I am relieved that they aren’t even doing the state control BS.

While I'm not trying to underestimate anything, this come off more as virtue signaling than actually fulfilling said promises?

[–] inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 5 points 14 hours ago

You're not wrong. State rights is bit of a right wing soundbite.

Time well tell.

[–] etherphon@lemmy.world 5 points 16 hours ago

I fucking knew they would use the length of the shutdown for something like this.

[–] switcheroo@lemmy.world 33 points 15 hours ago

"I love the uneducated."

'Smart people don't like me."

[–] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 31 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

A healthy, broadly educated population which feels safe and secure is incompatible with, and toxic to, conservative and authoritarian ideologies.

They need you to be sick, stupid, and scared.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 6 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

A healthy, broadly educated population which feels safe and secure is incompatible with, and toxic to, conservative and authoritarian ideologies.

I mean, we've got the entire 1960s/70s turn towards Reaganism suggesting the opposite. A broadly educate population secure in its ethnic majoritarian control of private property is ripe for conservative ideological poisoning. The landlord class loves the Republicans. The high income working class loves Republicans. The Professional Managerial Class loves Republicans.

So long as Republicans are willing to operate as gatekeepers - guaranteeing White Christian Men dominate the private sector - they will continue to be a magnet for corrupt and ambitious American social climbers.

[–] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I’m genuinely curious how any of this reply negates my original post.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Educated. People. Vote. Republican. All. The. Time.

[–] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Educated Replublicans != broadly educated.

Seppo culture is fascinating.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 11 minutes ago

Educated Replublicans != broadly educated.

That's simply not true

[–] etherphon@lemmy.world 25 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

So are they gonna be replacing those "You don't need college" commercials with "You don't need high school" commercials?

[–] vateso5074@lemmy.world 15 points 16 hours ago

A number of red states have also eased restrictions on child labor, so yeah, probably. They want to bolster their workforce with uneducated kids.

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 21 points 19 hours ago
[–] Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 17 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

So that means I don't need to pay back my student loans, right?

[–] graycube@lemmy.world 8 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Not exactly. They are selling student loans on the market the way mortgages used to be traded in the good old 2000's.

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 8 points 17 hours ago

No part of the contract I signed allows them to do that. It will be in the courts for years. Just like the public service loan forgiveness program suit that still has my loans in forbearance 3 years later.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 10 points 15 hours ago

A more stupid populace means a more destitute and desperate populace.

This country is about to be a much more dangerous place to be.

[–] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 10 points 18 hours ago

Sure this will improve the performance divide between red and blue states.

[–] mhague@lemmy.world 10 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Ok but, education is a subsidy for corporations. It makes sure we're educated enough to be worth hiring. Among other things, education is important in making us competitive.

Nobody should want this except for traitorous elites ready to leave the country the instant the tap runs dry. Even the most soulless neolib/conservative ought to realize education is necessary.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 points 14 hours ago

education is a subsidy for corporations

It's a perquisite for domestic development of professional labor. But where those laborers work is dictated by their access to capital. Corporate monopolization of real estate and advanced machinery forces professional workers into their employment. The act of publicly provisioning education isn't what yields subsidy. Its the caging of graduates into privately owned industries through control of physical and intellectual properties.

Nobody should want this except for traitorous elites ready to leave the country the instant the tap runs dry.

I think you're getting out ahead of your skis.

Trump defends U-turn on Chinese student visas after Maga backlash

The White House has said that those 600,000 student visas will be issued over the next two years, in line with numbers issued in previous years.

The plan isn't for American plutocrats to pick up and leave. It is to swing open the doors of the Guest Worker program and import millions of professionally skilled indentured servants.

[–] FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 8 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Most uneducated world power speedrun!

[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 7 points 19 hours ago

I mean, the US is already world champion on this, no other country is even close.

[–] gnutrino@programming.dev 3 points 15 hours ago

Bold of you to assume America is still going to be a world power by the end of this...

[–] Wilco@lemmy.zip 7 points 18 hours ago

Smart people dont like Trump ... by his own words.

[–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 7 points 19 hours ago

School of hard knocks is about to have a lot more graduates.

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago

Smart people don't vote right

[–] MourningDove@lemmy.zip 3 points 14 hours ago

They need them pregnant and stupid. It’s the only way they can get votes.

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

Déjà vu! I thought they already did that?