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About time!
People are very ignorant as to what the agency's purpose is. They have nothing to do with education, and everything to do with finances.
Newt Gingrich voted for this monstrously interesting.
What a wonderful day that would be. Then students might begin to learn again.
How many coal mines does the Department of Energy operate?
Zero
This is something FreeRepublic should really push. We have to start the conversation about eliminating these “sacred cow”. The DOE is really anti-quality education and it is obscenely expensive.
Can we add the Department of Energy on the list please?
I can’t for the life of me determine what use they are other than to fund boondoggles like Solyndra.
Dept of Educ definitely needs to go. Along with EPA and a few others.
Bflr. Too much on the agenda today starting in a few minutes, so will read later to see how I can participate in this most necessary of movements.
I am of the opinion that according to the Constitution, there are only three areas where the federal government has anything to do with education.
1) Define what it means with regards to Federal employment. For example a High School diploma means this and a higher education (BS or BA) means that.
2) Define a means of inter-state exchange of education. Like #1, a means of standardizing transfers of education credits between states. I would assume that this would be in the form of a standardized test by subject.
3) If the federal government wants to use education assistance as employment benefit - GI bill, tuition reimbursement, programs to exchange service for education
No Pell grants
No loans (full disclosure - I am currently using a FASFA loan)
2a) If we are going to keep grants and loans at the federal level, define what it means to be accepted to college and qualify for a loan or grant
The DOE(both of them) and the EPA must absolutely be abolished if we are to have any chance of restoring the Republic. They ARE the government. Even Cruz or Trump will not be able to accomplish much in the United States if these agencies continue to exist. They will use all available resources to undermine a conservative or even a Republican President.
ok,
And what about the other 6500 gub mint agencies departments and what not that are about as worthless as is the dept of edumacation?
Can we get rid of some of them too?
I mean the bureau of injun affairs?
ping!
Department of Education is the source of the muslim indoctrination that is being incorporated into curricula.
