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The White House is drafting an executive order to dismantle the Department of Education, aligning with Trump's long-standing pledge.

However, Congress must approve the agency's abolition, making its passage unlikely despite GOP control. Critics, including the National Education Association, warn this move would harm students, increase costs, and weaken protections.

GOP lawmakers have repeatedly attempted to eliminate the department since its 1979 founding.

Trump also recently signed an order expanding school choice, reinforcing the Republican agenda of decentralizing education policy.

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[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 1 points 17 minutes ago

If NBC thinks he needs an act of Congress then they haven't been paying paying attention to USAID.

Who the fuck am I kidding, they know damn well what's going on and refuse to print it.

[–] BmeBenji@lemm.ee 13 points 4 hours ago

This CollegeHumor video was 8 years ahead of its time: If the Other Party Wins

[–] Shuddle@lemmy.zip 35 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Almost forgot Congress was a thing since there's been little to no mention about them in this shit circus

[–] Skyrmir@lemmy.world 10 points 5 hours ago

That's by design, they stay silent and don't take the polling hit.

[–] cultsuperstar@lemmy.world 26 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Keep people dumb. Write their own history to "educate" the dumb. Sounds about right.

[–] quixote84@midwest.social 4 points 4 hours ago

For this reason, if you have anything with at least 32 GB of RAM and a GPU, you should get a copy of Ollama and test it out running a local copy of Deepseek. That's going to soon become the best 0 new dollars tool for access to education.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 12 points 7 hours ago

IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 39 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I was going to ask if this means I no longer have to pay back my student loans, but of course I know better than that.

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 18 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Shit is getting done so scattershot, I think there's a really, really good chance that a lot of records are going to fall through the cracks or "fall through the cracks" as different databases are deleted, offices closed, code based altered, and agencies demolished.

[–] VolumetricShitCompressor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Would be funny af if some madlad goes maliciouscompliance and deletes all records on student loans or something like that.

[–] moonbunny@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

Don’t forget those backups need to also be corrupted or otherwise unrecoverable as well

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 7 points 7 hours ago

please_god.png

[–] RamenJunkie@midwest.social 7 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Thats the goal.

Evennif somehow there is another election, everything will be too broken to even begin to repair it.

[–] ThomasCrappersGhost@feddit.uk 1 points 4 hours ago

Yup. And I thought that the U.K. was a shit hole.

So how is Betsy DeVos gonna siphon money for public schools to provide schools?

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

Is this better or worse then him packing the Department of Education with ideologues?

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