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Donald Trump Signed an Executive Order to Eliminate the U.S. Department of Education.
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Super embarrassing. Fucking idiots and their followers
This entire executive order is about privatizing education and taking control of the loans to give to billionaires. States already fund their own education.
This really doesn’t effect the states education budget too much.
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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 Those terms are probably outdated or were unique to my school system.)
put a hole in their budget that has to be filled.
Who says it has to be filled? Republicans certainly don't.
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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".
They're accelerationists. They're burning the system down so they can build their own in its place.
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Well, if you don't live in a city shit is about to get bad. Public education was basically one key thing keeping the US as a first world nation.
This will be in the courts by the end of next week marking it unconstitutional
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This is fucking horrifying. Americans you need to do something wtf is going on down there
A significant portion of our population, primarily in Republican controlled regions, didn't receive an adequate education, so they lack critical thinking skills or any concept of how our government actually functions.
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Just wait til the red states get mad that blue states won't take their spawn in for a college education due to being said far behind what is expected of someone to graduate from a blue stat HS
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"I love the poorly educated"- Trump, 2016
If the control of education is going to return to the state level, maybe this will be the solution for the mass exodus from blue states. You want an actual good education? Don’t move to Texas.
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I voted for the Rapist Convicted Felon because I'm a LAW AND ORDER voter and I SUPPORT this even though it's Illegal!
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