Go Donald!
I see your 13% reduction and raise you to 100% !
There shouldn’t even be a Department of “Education”
Eliminate 50% (to start) of the DoE management and regulations!
KYPD
They’re the ones who are going to have to reach the goal....not Trump. He set the goal.
It’s a start
And why didn't the boys com this meeting?
Mom: Because they had a baseball game. They've been in the league together for years and best friends.
Heck, I'm surprised she didn't say,
"Two hundred twenty-seven teachers will be beheaded."
Close the federal Dept of Ed
In Arizona we had to pass a teacher proficiency exam for certification. Coming into the profession after 26 years of real world experience I was stunned at how simple it was to pass. Yet many new teachers from college were allowed three tries to pass the test in a year.
IMO the ASVAB was tougher that the ATPE and the ASVAB is written to the 10th grade level.
Department of Brainwashing
Good start. But Ed Dept should be phased out this year. It is a worthless Department.
“Catherine Brown, vice president of education policy at CAP, said that 40,000 teachers’ salaries would be affected.”
As long as their salaries don’t go up, I’d say it’s a good start.
“Two hundred twenty-seven teachers will be affected,” Tonia Holmes-Sutton, director of the Network to Transform Teaching in Clark County, Nevada, said.”
Why does Clark County, NV even need 227 teachers?
No sane person could justify a 13% decrease in the Department of Education budget.
Why is this number not a 100% decrease? Why is the federal government involved in any way in local education? It’s time to drain the swamp, starting with eliminating that entire department.
Quit so much of the testing all the time, and you’d save mountains.
Start with Obama’s 2017 budget, approved Feb 2016; and again (surprise, with increases) Dec 2016.
The Ed Budget fits neatly into 2 categories K-12 and College.
College student Financial Assistance is by far the single largest budget item. It is a total mess. I dare anyone to try to do an audit on it. Nobody has a clue what is a loan and what is a grant. Nobody has a clue how to collect payments on the loans. If you touch it, you own it.
K-12 is much simpler to address. In order of most money, #1 is Disadvantaged (Poor, immigrants, etc).
#2 is ESL English as a Second Language
#3 is Innovation and Improvement...like that really works.
#4 is School Improvement programs, ie for Homeless, Native Americans, etc.
#5 is administration of the above.
OPTIONs
#1 Eliminate all K-12 spending and their programs.
#2 Eliminate all K-12 programs; keep the money appropriated. Issue to parents “scholarships” for their kids. The money works out to $1,000 per kid K-12.
If designated for the 20% most disadvantaged (low income, Native American, physical/mental disability, define it as you wish) then the amount is about $5,000 per kid. Remember, most Education money is state and local money. The Fed money is for special programs like Common Core, ESL, etc.
Option #3 is keep some K-12 programs and eliminate others. eg. Keep ESL, eliminate PE, or vice versa. Now you become the swamp.