In conjunction with trying to dismantle the Department of Education this was said.
President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday in an attempt to shut down the Education Department.
“We are sending education back to the states, where it so rightly belongs,” Secretary of Education Linda McMahon said in a statement after Mr. Trump signed the order.
That’s intentionally misleading because that is where it has always been, with the states and local communities. That’s where the decisions about educating your children are made.
Trying to get rid of the DOE has nothing to do with education, but just dismantle our government.
But there is a larger issue.
The quality of education among the states varies greatly and for different reasons. Generally, the most conservative, the poorest, the least educated have the poorer results.
Given…
we are one country trying to compete in a global world, isn’t it important to have consistency in the quality of our education? Don’t we want the best education possible in every state? Don’t we need to leverage the best talent among the rich and poor, liberal or conservative?
Don’t we need some universal standards?
Once again short-sighted ideology is working against us.
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Trump has repeatedly claimed that U.S. schools are “ranked 40 out of 40” in educational outcomes compared with other countries, while the U.S. “ranked No. 1 in cost per pupil.” Neither claim is accurate.
As Quinn has said, education scores and costs vary greatly among the states, so Trumps claims may be accurate for -some- states.
His, and others, aim seems to be mainly to reduce the size (and cost) of government.
FWIW, the U.S. already seems to be below average in percent of public workers in the workforce.
In OECD countries, the average public sector employment rate was 21.3% in 2013.
In the U.S. it is 17.6%, or was.
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Quinn, did you ever see a Govt program that you thought should go away? You truly are a Leftist!
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Al Lindquist
All you need to know is Pres. Carter established the Dept. of Ed after the NEA and AFT agreed to endorse him–he pushed Congress to make it a cabinet position.
If one purpose was to have “some universal standards” well after close to 60-years of existence where are those standards.
Dismantling our government? Yikes! How about a restructure like we see all the time in the private sector? The DOE is just another bureaucracy set to promote more and more government led by the teacher’s unions which are big time contributors to the Democrats.
Health and Human Services will assume responsibilities for some areas like disability aid while I believe Treasury will do student loans including Pell Grants.
We will be just fine as we shrink the 2.3 civilian employees that make up our government.
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If education is controlled entirely by the states as you say, then why is the Department of Education needed? What is its function and what results has it shown and why was it formed to start with and does it meddle in areas best controlled by the local systems? Why not distribute its funding to the states to run their own version of the cabinet level office?
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It’s not like I say it’s a fact.
It does not meddle in local education. It does support financially many programs for disabled and disadvantaged children. You can look up all the functions as I did. It seems to me that in the best interest of the Country as a whole some national education criteria should apply.
There is wide variance in the quality of education among the states, based in part on the wealth of the state and partly on ideology. How can a country afford not to assure its children, regardless of which state they live in, receive the best possible education? Massachusetts has the highest ranked system while many southern states are the least educated. How does that work for a country needing to compete in a competitive world? How is it fair?
The town where I grew up now has a STEM school which is good. However, the proficiency level for math among its students is reported at 4%. In other words, it’s a farce. How does that local control help anyone?
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have a tough time believing a school, any type of school, has only 4% of its students proficient in math–even inner city schools where conditions are very difficult have a scores higher than that–no doubt the solution would be “we need more money”.
The unions must be more powerful there than other areas. Ever think of removing staff with such poor scores? Sorry–the unions have the last say–maybe you need to reinstitute the Praxis test the state has eliminated.
I suspect southern states will be just fine as folks keep moving in and away from the north–given hindsight we can see many states in the north shut down during covid and went to zoom while states like Florida used common sense and opened up in August 2020–states like NJ waited until March of 2022 . Garden State 8th graders went back to school as 10th graders a few years from graduation. Hey, we all knew old folks were most susceptible and young people the least. In many places common sense is not so common.
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