Abolish the Department of Education?

[SgtSpiderMan]

No... they dont. We spend more per pupil than anyone.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/07/us-education-spending-finland-south-korea
According to this only tiny Luxemburg spends more. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/10/education-spending-highest-school-brazil-chile-italy-mexico/

Sure, if you compare apples to oranges. What did you find when you compared apples to apples?

 

[JohnnySavage]

Other countries generally "do better" because they kick the dummies out. The US educates everyone.

 

[Rotadom]

I thought we abolished the DOE when Trump appointed DeVos Education Goddess.

 

[pecksniff]

U.S. Department of Education:

The primary functions of the Department of Education are to "establish policy for, administer and coordinate most federal assistance to education, collect data on US schools, and to enforce federal educational laws regarding privacy and civil rights."[6] The Department of Education does not establish schools or colleges.[7]

Unlike the systems of most other countries, education in the United States is highly decentralized, and the federal government and Department of Education are not heavily involved in determining curricula or educational standards (with the exception of the No Child Left Behind Act). This has been left to state and local school districts. The quality of educational institutions and their degrees is maintained through an informal private process known as accreditation, over which the Department of Education has no direct public jurisdictional control.

The Department of Education is a member of the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness,[8] and works with federal partners to ensure proper education for homeless and runaway youth in the United States.

Now, there are two possible reactions to that:

1. With so few and innocuous functions, why not abolish the department?

2. With so few and innocuous functions, why is anybody afraid of this department?

 

[icanhelp1]

U.S. Department of Education:


Now, there are two possible reactions to that:

1. With so few and innocuous functions, why not abolish the department?

2. With so few and innocuous functions, why is anybody afraid of this department?

It's time to closely examine the cost to benefit ratio, DoE has zero, being subservient to the teachers union, abolish it as well as the EPA. The EPA should probably come under the oversight committees of congress. IMHO CDC needs some serious restructuring, FDA and USDA have utility

 

[pecksniff]

It's time to closely examine the cost to benefit ratio, DoE has zero, being subservient to the teachers union