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2025-02-12 Government Corruption

DOGE slashes nearly $1 billion at Education Department: 'Win for every student'

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Posted by Skidmark 2025-02-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11149 views ] Top

#1 About 5 kids will be disappointed.

Posted by Super Hose 2025-02-12 06:02|| 2025-02-12 06:02|| Front Page Top

#2 ^ dunno, kids like freaky stuff - maybe gonna miss all those rainbow-haired "women" with the growly voices.

Posted by Mercutio 2025-02-12 09:47|| 2025-02-12 09:47|| Front Page Top

#3 What are those $881M contracts that were cut? The DEI cuts are all well and good, but that's only 10% of what was done. Tell me more, Fox.

Posted by James 2025-02-12 09:52|| https://idontknowbut.blogspot.com 2025-02-12 09:52|| Front Page Top

#4 House Dem expects first DOGE subcommittee meeting to be 'full-on combat'

Tell me more, Fox.
Some choose to hunt and eat.
Others want to be fed.

Posted by Skidmark 2025-02-12 10:00|| 2025-02-12 10:00|| Front Page Top

Posted by Skidmark 2025-02-12 10:33|| 2025-02-12 10:33|| Front Page Top

#6 A failing Nation's Report Card proves need for sweeping change

Posted by Skidmark 2025-02-12 10:49|| 2025-02-12 10:49|| Front Page Top

#7 You say "cartels", I say "teachers' colleges".

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-02-12 11:16|| 2025-02-12 11:16|| Front Page Top

#8 In 2001 the total approriated to the DOEd was about $27 B.

By 2017 this was about $37 B.

By 2021 this was about $41 B (although Trump's budget request was only $18 B).

By 2023 it was about $174 B, much of which came from post Covid stimulus legislation. A budget request of about $250 B for 2024 was made but I can't figure out what the actual appropriation was.

During this time, Student achievement on standardized tests went DOWN, not UP

Posted by Lord Garth 2025-02-12 11:52|| 2025-02-12 11:52|| Front Page Top

#9 I would like to acknowledge that Public Education has taught mine about Communism is evil. In group projects and even general classroom, mine do their work, others steal their work, mine get the same grade as the ones who didn't work.

Thank you, Common Core Department of Education.

Posted by swksvolFF 2025-02-12 14:35|| 2025-02-12 14:35|| Front Page Top

#10 James, about the $881 million:

Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has been combing through the embattled agency and has cut $982 million in spending so far.

The bulk of that - $881 million - was saved by ditching 89 contracts dished out by the department’s Institute of Education Sciences.

Many of those contracts were for special studies tracking student learning, evaluating teaching strategies, and tracking educational trends.

Training grants for DEI programs have also been canceled, saving $101 million.

'Any contracts to preform statutory functions will be rebid,' a notice to staff read, noting that the College Scorecard would not be affected by the cuts.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-02-12 15:34|| 2025-02-12 15:34|| Front Page Top

#11 Pining for the romance of the Civil Rights movement heydey:

Federal workers just want the dignity and privileges all normal American workers have, like taking a Tuesday off to sing about throwing their boss in jail, without fear of repercussions. Is that not what your Tuesday looked like? https://t.co/Rbkoch1PG2
— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) February 12, 2025

Posted by trailing wife 2025-02-12 15:37|| 2025-02-12 15:37|| Front Page Top

#12 Federal workers just want the dignity and privileges all normal American workers have,

Oh, you mean like having to worry about get laid off when customers are no longer buying what you produce? Or actually getting laid off? Like worrying about competition from other companies and competition from workers in other countries who are no better than slaves? That kind of dignity? I could agree to that.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2025-02-12 16:22|| 2025-02-12 16:22|| Front Page Top

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