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I am with you 💯.
So many people are ill- informed (to say it kindly) about the USDOE.
The USDOE was created by Jimmy Carter and the first President to implement it was Reagan. Prior to the USDOE, the Federal Government DID fund education through block grants to the states. So many education laws (primarily fo estisenst with disabilitirs) were passed and implemented PRIOR to the USDOE.
I think the dismantling of this agency will improve education, by returning more autonomy to the States, WHERE IT BELONGS!
….. if you doubt that, check the US constitution
Rising Star
So many people only listen to Main Stream media, or go by what they are seeing on Social Media. I say do your own research to get the real information.
I’ve worked in education long enough to see how top-down decisions from the federal level sometimes just don’t fit what’s happening in our schools. If states had more autonomy, I wonder if we could focus more on what’s working locally rather than jumping through hoops for compliance.
This!!!
I agree. Each state creates their own standards. If it would be needed at all it would be to arrange for Pell grants/loans that could be handled by the treasury.
Rising Star
This is what I am seeing in my research
The administration can say they're not going to shortchange disabled students, but seriously, how can anyone take anything they say seriously? This is a political stunt meant to entertain the base, and it will have a lot of unanticipated and destructive consequences. Part of the problem is that the people clamoring to destroy the department have no idea what it really does. I get that enough people in swing states voted to have a reality show instead of a responsible government, so I guess we just have to wait and see how bad the damage will be.
I disagree, but I also don’t think that at the federal level much has been done. I’ve always thought it just bloated waste. I saw a commercial yesterday about how involved a woman thought the federal level was to her autistic son that she equated her son getting an IEP was because of federal involvement. In my state, that couldn’t be further from the truth. The state has always set the standards for IEP, GIEP, and 504 guidelines. Children who struggle will still receive assistance they need regardless of how involved the feds are. I think we need to hand it to the states to monitor. Each state knows what there teachers really need because they live here and the stakes for them will be higher to attract and keep people in their state with better and more innovative programming. I think we all remember the damage “No child left behind” did to not only those with needs, but to those kids that don’t need accommodations. Unrealistic goals, monitoring, and wasteful paperwork with hopefully be eliminated…I hope. Since we’ve had the feds involved since the mid 70’s, our standing in the educational world continue to drop. To me, that is the evidence I need to maybe doing things a different way. I’m not sure how handing some of the responsibility to each state is a bad thing in light of where we are now. It’s simply moving some of this departments programs to other existing branches. It couldn’t be worse than it is now. The money won’t stop for programming, just where it is provided.
I’m not sure what you mean when you say that the only reason it’s being done is a “ political stunt to entertain the base.” I’m tired of the status quo in our education system. There has to be a better way. Compared to where the US is on the educational level with other countries, we have nothing to lose.
I think in general its hard to trust what Trump says because he has shown over and over that there is always some other motive to the things he is doing.
I agree with you 100%. From all I’ve seen thus far, I don’t have any confidence that this move was done with the best interests of children in mind. Everything points back to appealing to billionaires and satisfying those with some kind special interest particularly those that pertain to some kind of racial animus.
We are currently learning that our lifeskills as we knew it is going away. We will take kids to gen Ed classes all day. It sure how this will work.
Evidently, it’s the new way in the country. Everyone’s going to go to this I am told. We are getting training next month to take children who can flip tables to classes all day.