Should we shutter the Department of Education?
Washington Examiner,
by
Robert Holland
Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect,
4/26/2019 5:29:57 AM
Since its inception 40 years ago as a political payoff from President Jimmy Carter to the National Education Association, the Department of Education has engaged in scores of dubious actions that have made millions of Americans yearn for its expulsion. The most recent example of comes from a long string of audits showing the federal department is doing a lousy job keeping tabs on the $38 billion it receives to administer federally funded K–12 programs. “Complex and persistent” is how Congress’ spending watchdog, the Government Accountability Office, described the agency’s mismanagement of data, oversight, and evaluation.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
KatieJo 4/26/2019 5:43:09 AM (No. 68909)
Yes.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
DW626 4/26/2019 5:58:44 AM (No. 68896)
When?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
PChristopher 4/26/2019 6:09:13 AM (No. 68908)
Anything that Carter did should be shuttered.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
MainelySane 4/26/2019 7:03:23 AM (No. 68898)
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 4/26/2019 7:28:55 AM (No. 68903)
"Complex and persistent ... described the agency’s mismanagement of data, oversight, and evaluation."
Sounds like a description of how the department has failed to educate America´s youth as well. Not a surprise that loser Carter birthed a failed and incompetent agency.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Pluperfect 4/26/2019 7:34:27 AM (No. 68915)
The staff will fix it,#5. It´s just a glitch.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Krause 4/26/2019 7:47:04 AM (No. 68901)
States should be allowed to ‘secede’ from the D of Education regulations. In this case the States should win at the Supreme Court. The D of Education left to rule the hard red States only, fittingly.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
PostAway 4/26/2019 7:51:10 AM (No. 68892)
If ever there was proof that Amendment X was a brilliant facet of our founding document the Dept. of Education is it. The usual communist scoundrels and thieves pushed hard for federal oversight of local schools and the new department was signed into existence by the second most venal and unAmerican president of my lifetime. The most corrupt and hateful president in American history used it to change “our history, our traditions and our way of doing things”, to loosely quote his marital unit. Now, we have way too many high school graduates who lack reasoning skills and also hate their country and their heritage. Get rid of the Dept. of Education. Yesterday.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Strike3 4/26/2019 8:04:20 AM (No. 68885)
Forty years of dumbing down our kids, removing God from the education process and moving these brainwashed mushheads into positions of authority and higher education has taken its toll. We see it in corrupt government and in our failing universities.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 4/26/2019 8:10:48 AM (No. 68897)
The Department of Indoctrination is big and pretty much on autopilot. Like a cockroach - it could survive a nuclear war and still crawl out of the rubble unscathed. After all, it’s “for the children”.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Catherine 4/26/2019 8:12:43 AM (No. 68895)
Closing the Dept of Education would be a fantastic start. Then go about closing the teachers union. I know, won´t happen, but when a teacher makes $50,000 a year and goes on strike for more - that´s just wrong.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
planetgeo 4/26/2019 8:14:33 AM (No. 68888)
Look at the bright side...at least our kids have finally learned how to put a condom on a cucumber.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
4freedom 4/26/2019 8:35:18 AM (No. 68919)
This is the best idea I´ve heard in a long time. To see what is coming out these indoctrination camps is extremely depressing, the whole system needs to be revamped from top to bottom. We absolutely cannot let progressives be in control of young minds anymore.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Hermoine 4/26/2019 8:50:18 AM (No. 68894)
FTA: But if a sunset clause is never implemented, will inept and costly bureaucracies such as the Department of Education ever be dissolved?
SPOILER ALERT: It is not going to be dissolved. It´s a great thought, but ain´t gonna happen.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 4/26/2019 9:09:54 AM (No. 68910)
Yes. But, I would close the department of Energy, too.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
h24015 4/26/2019 9:11:56 AM (No. 68902)
Ten years ago I read that over 1000 Dept of Education employees were paid 6 figure incomes. I would have never guessed the Dept had 1000 employees.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Clinger 4/26/2019 9:18:07 AM (No. 68886)
Wait a minute let me check my pocket constitution....let´s see here....., darned not in there. I´m a YES!!
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 4/26/2019 9:18:44 AM (No. 68914)
DoEd was another silly creation of the disgraceful Richard Nixon. Eliminate it in its entirety.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Philipsonh 4/26/2019 9:23:54 AM (No. 68887)
Why. it makes a whole lot of sense to send $ to DC so that it can be recycled disproportionately back to the sources; Oh, it does NOT, no kidding. But,what will the elected officials do if they cannot create chaos like this ? Legislate rationally?
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
MickinPhoenix 4/26/2019 9:34:56 AM (No. 68891)
That and several other Departments. The remaining could be cut by 50% and if they actually worked like in real world jobs things could possibly be accomplished.....Mick
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Marjbaldwin 4/26/2019 9:40:27 AM (No. 68889)
Yes, obviously. Given that under DoE tutelage half the nation is still so uneducated and ignorant that it believes socialism is a viable, desirable alternative to constitutional freedoms, we´d say the DoE has proven itself a spectacular failure.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
fayebeck 4/26/2019 9:45:03 AM (No. 68913)
I vote yes but have just one question. Who will diagnose all the "autistic, ADHD" and all the other "learning disabilities"?
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Rather Read 4/26/2019 9:56:50 AM (No. 68905)
Yes, yes a MILLION times YES!!!
I´ve worked in education all my life and I have seen it go downhill, way downhill. The layers of bureaucracy that are in place are insane!! And all of them are there to pacify the Department of Education.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Laotzu 4/26/2019 10:03:22 AM (No. 68904)
The test for success of any federal agency used to be that they didn´t kill anybody. Then the VA lowered that bar. Now, these agencies exist simply to exist. They produce nothing. They serve nobody. They exist solely to support real estate prices in the DC suburbs.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Wendybird 4/26/2019 10:25:48 AM (No. 68890)
Sounds like a pretty massive consensus.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
MDConservative 4/26/2019 11:19:31 AM (No. 68906)
Yawn...boob bait. Find a politician who will vote against "education". There is none. The Department has existed almost half a century. It´s constituents, which include the entire "Big Education" complex that rakes in the dough, is entrenched. Ask your member of congress about his/her position...and I bet your local Board of Ed is no less progressive if you live in a district of any size or wealth.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
HotRod 4/26/2019 12:46:09 PM (No. 68911)
Absolutely the DOE should be eliminated. It is, and has been, another tentacle in the democrat/radical left´s program to corrupt our youth. It has been wildly successful in that, but has been a dismal failure in improving education- which is it´s purported purpose!
It is also just another democrat PAC, contributing votes and money to democrat candidates.
Education must be administered by the states and local communities, in accordance with citizen´s desires and needs. The one-size fits-all programs from Washington have caused great harm to our children!
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
joew9 4/26/2019 12:49:17 PM (No. 68900)
Dept of Education
Dept of Energy
Eliminate both DOEs.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
rochow 4/26/2019 1:14:53 PM (No. 68918)
Not even a question! Long overdue! Just like his Chicago punk follow up, everything he ever touched turned out to be @#@#!!!!!!
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 4/26/2019 1:31:13 PM (No. 68912)
The DOE is a gnat on an elephant.
What really needs to be done - -
- - forbid all governments at all levels from owning or opearating any school of any kind. All education should be the resuklty of private decisions made by free individuals - - contracting private suppliers to do the work.
Gat ALL government OUT OF all education!
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 4/26/2019 1:47:20 PM (No. 68899)
That was supposed to be the entire goal and mission of Betsy DeVos at the time she took the position. So what happened?
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
zoidberg 4/26/2019 4:50:34 PM (No. 68916)
Which of the Enumerated Powers in Article I of the Constitution mentions education? None of them.
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What happened, #34, was the Dems won the house in 2018.
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