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HE got by without an education. So can you.

But although Wells Fargo has more than 200,000 employees, the Department of Education has fewer than 1,500 in its Office of Federal Student Aid.

So it's more efficient than a bank, BUT needs to be run by an actual bank? How stupid does he think we are?

Congratulations!! This means the average person in America is already too educated. Right!? Right?

So I assume all the special ed money in Red states will now just go into a slush fund to accelerate executions, and an amplification of attacks on marginalized groups instead of helping kids/families.

My God, this is beyond sad.

Was on the radio, some notes:

1. The responsibility of FAFSA (which is 2/3 of it's budget) likely goes to Treasury and honestly I don't think they can realistically pull that back legally, at least anytime soon. Disability funds supposedly will move somewhere too.

2. The DoE itself likely will exist in the same limbo as USAID since legally it requires Congress, and judges can and will challenge illegal moves. That said, I say limbo because USAID may have got people back but empty buildings and ongoing stuff is ruined. Expect that from DoE, even though it shouldn't be allowed.

My own info, though, is they only provide public schools about 5 to 10% budget on average, and yes, it's heavily towards rural districts. This likely will have very little impact on blue states, although don't go celebrating as budgets are already tight in several places and even blue states will cut into education to fund other things like fire relief. Our Blue states are still no where near as good as many European and Asian country educational institutions.

But he needs Congressional approval to do so.

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.

Wow.

I looked at the articles that was expecting for that to happen today, never thought he would actually do it.

This isn't something Trump would even care about. He's being handled very well this time around.

Remember Rick Perry wanted to close the department of Education as well. It's been on the Republican checklist for a while now.

Super embarrassing. Fucking idiots and their followers

Does this mean schools can now give as many trans rights as they want? State rights?

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".

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.)