Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday that instructs the US education secretary, Linda McMahon, to start dismantling the Department of Education, seemingly attempting to circumvent the need to obtain congressional approval to formally close a federal department.
The administration may eventually pursue an effort to get Congress to shut down the agency, Trump said at a signing ceremony at the White House on Thursday, because its budget had more than doubled in size in recent years but national test scores had not improved.
The federal government does not mandate curriculum in schools; that has been the responsibility of state and local governments, which provide 90% of the funding to schools. Nevertheless, at the White House, Trump repeated his campaign promise to “send education back to the states”.
I don't really hold a lot of innate respect for the founding fathers of this country. I mean some of them individually of course but as a whole I don't think they were special or more enlightened than other people. However even I have to wonder what it would be like to go back to the past and show them this. Just see how they would react. Surely even a bunch of rich white land owning men would see problems with this right?
I like to think they would. Not because they were anti capitalist but because the wealthy have become their own kind of nolble class and the founding fathers hated the nobility. They were capitalists that designed a system that was intended to give the greatest number of people an even opertunity to pursue capital. They didn't consider the idea of economic capture of government. I can't blame them. It's a pretty modern idea. alien idea for their time. Even if they had, it's late stage capitalism. It doesn't play by the rules. Also, respect for Thomas Paine.