Education Department Plans to Fire Up to Half Its Staff

[Hume]

Trump administration officials are planning to fire nearly half of the staff at the Education Department, according to two people familiar with the decision. The move could come as soon as Tuesday and would gut the agency that manages federal loans for college, tracks student achievement and enforces civil rights laws in schools.

Education Department Fires 1,300 Workers, Gutting Its Staff

The layoffs mean that the department will now have a work force of about half the size it did when President Trump took office.

www.nytimes.com

 

[Hume]

Trump loves the uneducated.

 

[Stone]

Trump administration officials are planning to fire nearly half of the staff at the Education Department, according to two people familiar with the decision. The move could come as soon as Tuesday and would gut the agency that manages federal loans for college, tracks student achievement and enforces civil rights laws in schools.

Education Department Fires 1,300 Workers, Gutting Its Staff

The layoffs mean that the department will now have a work force of about half the size it did when President Trump took office.

www.nytimes.com

Now this is GREAT news!

 

[Magats_Love_NHB]

 

[Into the Night]

Trump administration officials are planning to fire nearly half of the staff at the Education Department, according to two people familiar with the decision. The move could come as soon as Tuesday and would gut the agency that manages federal loans for college, tracks student achievement and enforces civil rights laws in schools.

Education Department Fires 1,300 Workers, Gutting Its Staff

The layoffs mean that the department will now have a work force of about half the size it did when President Trump took office.

www.nytimes.com

Good. The Dept of Education should be dissolved entirely.

 

[Into the Night]

Trump loves the uneducated.

The Dept of Education does not educate anyone, Hugo.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

Trump loves the uneducated.

The Department of Education doesn't do any actual educating.

5 Things To Know About Abolishing The U.S. Department Of Education

The Department of Education won’t be abolished. Whether the federal role in education is about to meaningfully change, though, is very much up in the air.

www.forbes.com

Essentially, all the DoEd is is a clearing house to distribute federal money to the states for education related purposes.

 

[IBDaMann]

Trump loves the uneducated.

Of course he does. Trump is trying to bring them over to the MAGA movement from the DNC.

 

[IBDaMann]

The Department of Education doesn't do any actual educating. Essentially, all the DoEd is is a clearing house to distribute federal money to the states for education related purposes.

Except that the funding gets redirected to non-education purposes.

 

[RB 60]

Except that the funding gets redirected to non-education purposes.

Firing those who direct funds to non-education purposes is a good thing.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

Except that the funding gets redirected to non-education purposes.

So, that means it will start going to union teachers in public schools then hum?

 

[RB 60]

So, that means it will start going to union teachers in public schools then hum?

Probably just administrators.

 

[IBDaMann]

So, that means it will start going to union teachers in public schools then hum?

It means that the States will determine how they redistribute their wealth, and the Federal government will remain out of it.

 

[IBDaMann]

Firing those who direct funds to non-education purposes is a good thing.

Well, eliminating the Federal government from wealth redistribution is a good thing.

 

[AProudLefty]

Of course he does. Trump is trying to bring them over to the MAGA movement from the DNC.

Too funny! Here he admits the MAGA Party is full of uneducated people!

BTW, to play your game, MAGA is not a movement.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

It means that the States will determine how they redistribute their wealth, and the Federal government will remain out of it.

If by "redistribute" you mean "squander" then that is likely.

 

[AProudLefty]

It means that the States will determine how they redistribute their wealth, and the Federal government will remain out of it.

In other words, the red states are free to indoctrinate children with religious nonsense.

 

[RB 60]

Too funny! Here he admits the MAGA Party is full of uneducated people!

BTW, to play your game, MAGA is not a movement.

So, tell us what you think educated is. And how do you become educated?

 

[AProudLefty]

So, tell us what you think educated is. And how do you become educated?

Take @IBDaMann as an example. He doesn't understand that "MAGA" can be used as an adjective.

 

[IBDaMann]

Too funny! Here he admits the MAGA Party is full of uneducated people!

Too funny! Here AProudLefty demonstates that he cannot read English for comprehension. Does anybody think he'll get it right if he reads my post a second time? A third?

BTW, to play your game, MAGA is not a movement.

Too funny! AProudLefty just can't understand that the movement to make America great again is definitely a movement.