Posted on 05/01/2017 1:00:06 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The Trump administration is discontinuing a signature girls education initiative championed by former first lady Michelle Obama, according to officials.
The "Let Girls Learn" program, which she and President Barack Obama started in 2015 to facilitate educational opportunities for adolescent girls in developing countries, will cease operation immediately, according to an internal document obtained by CNN.
News of the program's end came the same day President Donald Trump's agriculture secretary, Sonny Perdue, was visiting an elementary school in suburban Virginia to announce changes to another initiative spotlighted by the former first lady, healthy school lunches.
Perdue was set to unveil a rule change "providing regulatory flexibility for the National School Lunch Program" during a visit to Catoctin Elementary School in Leesburg. Like "Let Girls Learn," improving the nutritional quality of school meals was a major focus of Obama's during her tenure as first lady.
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That would be the Lutheran Immigration And Refugee Service. The correct acronym would be "LIARS".
To be replaced by the new “Let Ivanka Lead” program—pretty much the same as the old program.
Good. Another completely un-Constitutional expenditure of public funds is ended. At least until some idiot Federal Judge in Hawaii finds otherwise anyway.
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