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Summary
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.
Suprise to know their even was one.
This is a good choice as they just sit around and do nothing all day anyway considering who got elected.
In case anyone is still wondering if Republicans are enemies of the United States of America, you need not wonder anymore.
the federal department does some very important assistance to state departments and students, but it is worth noting that states do basically all of the actual control and management of schools
I can’t fucking tell if this is a joke or not
The executive order’s a symbolic gesture—Congress won’t scrap the Department outright. But the subtext? Steady erosion. Shift student debt oversight to Treasury, pare back civil rights investigations, let federal education funds atrophy. States then fill the vacuum: red ones push vouchers, defund “woke” curricula, blue ones scramble to plug gaps.
The playbook’s transparent. Undermine trust in public institutions, then offer “choice” as salvation. Rural GOP districts take the bait, then recoil when their Title I lunches and special ed services evaporate. Even conservatives quietly rely on federal data systems and grant streams—hypocrisy’s baked in.
Latest school choice expansions? Distraction tactics. Real damage accrues in the margins: disabled students lose protections, civil rights complaints backlog, teacher retention plummets. ED’s survived 40 years of GOP vitriol because dismantling it’s all optics, no payoff.
Predictable cycle. Provoke outrage, let chaos incentivize privatization. Rinse, repeat.
The playbook’s transparent. Undermine trust in public institutions, then offer “choice” as salvation.
So that’s the game
Congress doesn’t need to be okay with it if Elon’s cronies waltz in and kick everyone out.
Remember when Bush pushed the “No Child Left Behind Act”, and we all realized the federalization of control over education was deeply problematic and removed democratic control over education? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
The government not handling every social function in society isn’t scary on its own. That in combination with the people as a whole having no control over the economy is when that becomes nasty (i.e., economic inequality). That is of course the vision of the ruling class.
Good news everyone! No more Student Loans!
You mean the White House is preparing an executive order for protests so they can still get no faster?
If the Federal Government doesn’t want to be responsible for anything, why even be a country? Each state be their own I guess /s
Also are they going to reduce taxes for all the cuts? Doubt it, but states would have to make increases to cover all the new work.
we live in the dumbest timeline.
Literally what the fuck are we paying taxes for, they are dismantling every bit of representation of the people possible. Well only have ruch fucks and bombs left to pay for.
The collective “we” voted to give all of our money over to Trump I just council of billionaires.
You laugh, this is literally Curtis Yarvin’s (one of Elon’s mentors) vision of America. A patchwork of corporatocratic fiefdoms, technically beholden to a federal government that basically only exists to be the arm of violence. The whole “no authority higher than a county sheriff” thing? Came out of his books. The idea of being “educated” will only be for the vaunted manager-class. All of us not lucky enough to be in the millionaire’s club, or one of their trusted lackeys, will be lucky to know how to read beyond a 3rd-grade level, or do math beyond simple arithmetic.
Welcome to Elon’s Brave New World!
The White House is drafting
an executive ordera royal decree to dismantle the Department of Education, aligning with Trump’slong-standing pledgelong con.CriticsAn overwhelming consensus of experts, including the National Education Association, warn this move would harm students, increase costs, and weaken protections.Trump also recently signed
an order expanding school choicea decree lowering educational standards, reinforcing the Republican agenda ofdecentralizing education policydismantling public secular education in favor of religious and political indoctrination.There, fixed the “we must obscure reality by using their terms so they won’t come after us next” cowardice.
Give the power back to the states but create a credentialing system to weed out ‘unpatriotic’ teachers. Shall that be left to the states too?
Good luck to your kids and grandkids, education is fucked. Back to the feudal times where only royalty and the rich were educated. If this passes I am not paying student loans anymore. The department that issued them will be gone so why pay.
I mean that’s the point right? It took a lot of work to get the populous this dumb. Imagine what those that have risen to power can get away with if we make people even dumber!
That loan will just get transferred to DOGE dont worry.
Transferred to X cause it got the license to operate as a bank approved.
US Healthcare system is the worst in the world by any measure from cost to outcomes
Republicans: lets do the same to the education system.