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| Interview: I ran Trump's Education Department. Here's how he can rip it apart... and I'll stand behind him all the way |
| 2024-11-13 |
| [Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Betsy DeVos, former Secretary of the Department of Education during President Donald Trump's first term, is making recommendations for how he can tear apart the agency. Trump promised to end the Department of Education during his campaign, a concept that drew wild applause from his supporters but will face staunch opposition from the bureaucrats and teachers unions. Who put their own power over the interests they purport to oversee ‘We’re going to end education coming out of Washington D.C., we’re going to close it up all those buildings all over the place, and you have people in many cases who hate our children, we’re going to send it all back to the states,’ Trump said in a video issued to his supporters. DeVos, who resigned in protest over Trump's leadership on January 6 but is back in Trump's fold, detailed to DailyMail.com ways he could realize his goal of fully dismantling the organization. ‘He has doubled down on his attention to the issues with education and I am very optimistic that he is going to make education and the reforms necessary a high priority in his second administration,’ she said to DailyMail.com. The bloated agency has spent over a trillion dollars since its conception in 1979 during President Jimmy Carter's administration and now fills three different buildings in Washington, D.C., with over 4,000 employees. DeVos said the Department of Education was created by Carter as a payoff to the teacher’s unions, and the entire department was filled with bureaucrats whose goals prioritized the the unions, not America’s children. ‘There are many ways to de-power the Department of Education and I am very optimistic that president trump in his second term is going to put the muscle behind seeing that happen,’ DeVos said. She proposed that Trump should first pass federal tax credits to help parents pay for school choice, fueling education freedom across the country. She also proposed the federal government begin offering block funding grants to the states. Title IX, she explained, would have to be clarified and fixed after the Biden administration tried to use it to enact a very controversial agenda around transgender students. DeVos proposed sending the enforcement of Title IX to the Justice Department. She also criticized the Biden administration for ‘trying to buy votes’ by forgiving federal college student loans. She proposed sending the he Free Application for Federal Student Aid program to the Department of Treasury or moving to a private program. DeVos was appointed the Secretary of Education during Trump’s first term, which drew sharp opposition from teacher’s unions for her views on freeing education policy from federal control and offering more opportunities for school choice. She warned that the same political forces would fight Trump and whoever he chose to take the position as Secretary of Education in his second term. ‘The status quo is not going to back down at all and they’re not going to get quieter. Whomever is there is going to if they are standing up to the status quo they’re going to get all the protests and all the stuff the same way because they are fighting for power and control,’ she said. DeVos resigned from her position after the January 6th riots on Capitol Hill in protest of President Joe Biden’s election certification, citing the importance of the ‘peaceful transfer of power.’ But she said that she had spoken to Trump since that day ‘very recently’ about his proposed education reforms and was enthusiastic about the possibilities. She explained that the window of opportunity for dramatic reform was possible, citing the growing number of American parents realizing that the teachers unions were not prioritizing their children. ‘The status quo and the unions have overplayed their hands through the whole covid experience, it has opened families eyes, grandparents, communities, it has opened everyone’s eyes to how much control and influence and power these teacher unions have had and I think there is backlash against that today,’ she said. DeVos did not rule out returning to the position, if Trump asked, and said there were a number of good people who could serve in the role. She said the only way she would return was if Trump was serious about closing down the department and if Republicans were serious about passing a tax credit for educational freedom. ‘I want to help accomplish those goals in any way, I want nothing more than for him to be successful in seeing these policies through,’ she said. 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| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #8 FWIW, before Carter there was an Office of Education within the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. The Office did basically the same work as the Department does now with about 5% of the funding and about 15% of the personnel. |
| Posted by: Lord Garth 2024-11-13 15:05 |
| #7 Use the money to buy school supplies for the students! |
| Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2024-11-13 12:44 |
| #6 Raise it. Salt the Earth. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2024-11-13 12:21 |
| #5 Eliminate the Dept of Indoctrination and est. an Eduction Commission, which would simply allocate funds to states for math, science and classical litature. |
| Posted by: Jack Salami 2024-11-13 10:02 |
| #4 No to taxpayer funded school vouchers. Focus on improving public schools. |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2024-11-13 09:51 |
| #3 Take the current federal dept of education budget, cut it by 75%, take the 25%, divide by number of tax filing parents in America with school age children, send that amount as a school voucher. |
| Posted by: Airandee 2024-11-13 06:52 |
| #2 Waste Of The Day: Million-Dollar Cheating-Ring At Houston Schools Betsy DeVos joins Trump in support of 'disbanding' the Department of Education |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2024-11-13 01:12 |
| #1 The key to modern "western" education is that most teachers are DEI hires uncable of washing toilets without supervision. |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-11-13 00:57 |