H.R. 899: “The Department of Education shall terminate on December 31, 2018.”

[irksomesauce]

Now we're talking!

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Representative Thomas Massie introduced H.R. 899, a bill to abolish the federal Department of Education. The bill, which is one sentence long, states, “The Department of Education shall terminate on December 31, 2018.” On the day of Betsy DeVos’ scheduled Senate confirmation for Secretary of Education, Massie said, “Neither Congress nor the President, through his appointees, has the constitutional authority to dictate how and what our children must learn."

Massie added, "Unelected bureaucrats in Washington, D.C. should not be in charge of our children’s intellectual and moral development. States and local communities are best positioned to shape curricula that meet the needs of their students. Schools should be accountable. Parents have the right to choose the most appropriate educational opportunity for their children, including home school, public school, or private school."

“For years, I have advocated returning education policy to where it belongs - the state and local level,” said Rep. Walter Jones, an original co-sponsor. “D.C. bureaucrats cannot begin to understand the needs of schools and its students on an individual basis. It is time that we get the feds out of the classroom, and terminate the Department of Education.”

“I’ve always been a proponent of empowering parents, teachers and local school boards who best know our children and their needs," said Rep. Raul Labrador, another original co-sponsor. "Eliminating the U.S. Department of Education is the most important step we in Congress can take in returning decision making to the local level.”

"Education of our students should lie primarily with parents, teachers, and state and local officials who know how to meet their individual needs best," said freshman Rep. Andy Biggs. "Since its inception, the Department of Education has grown into an unrecognizable federal beast, and its policies have helped foster Common Core across the country. It is time the one-size-fits-all approach by the federal government is ended and authority is returned to the local level."

https://massie.house.gov/newsroom/p...ll-to-abolish-federal-department-of-education

 

[VaticanAssassin]

if only...

But I won't hold my breath.

 

[Disgustipated]

Now we're talking!



https://massie.house.gov/newsroom/p...ll-to-abolish-federal-department-of-education

Dude. Where are you gonna find dates if they shutdown public schools?

 

[sr71plt]

Yeah, right. Smart and educated parents are going to get their kids a good education. The dumb and uneducated parents are going to perpetuate their dumbness and force the same on their kids. Sort of Darwinian, but there's the sweet reward, I guess, that most of the Trump dupes/dopes will sink down to donkey status. That would have the added benefit of perpetuating a class of lettuce pickers, obviating the need for migrant immigrant workers.

 

[Conager]

Yeah, right. Smart and educated parents are going to get their kids a good education. The dumb and uneducated parents are going to perpetuate their dumbness and force the same on their kids. Sort of Darwinian, but there's the sweet reward, I guess, that most of the Trump dupes/dopes will sink down to donkey status. That would have the added benefit of perpetuating a class of lettuce pickers, obviating the need for migrant immigrant workers.

You are not wrong about parents, but that's also exactly what we have now.

Adding another layer of bureaucracy has accomplished exactly nothing. Some people argue (because they don't understand the correlation does not equal causation) that the extra layer of federal bureaucracy has actually hindered education because the statistics do not show improvement in education, rather, a decline during the tenure of the education department.

The truth is that's more reflection on society than federal involvement. Federal involvement at best is feckless.

 

[Duncan113]

Now we're talking!

Hell, yes!!

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

You are not wrong about parents, but that's also exactly what we have now.

Adding another layer of bureaucracy has accomplished exactly nothing. Some people argue (because they don't understand the correlation does not equal causation) that the extra layer of federal bureaucracy has actually hindered education because the statistics do not show improvement in education, rather, a decline during the tenure of the education department.

The truth is that's more reflection on society than federal involvement. Federal involvement at best is feckless.

Let's see those stats.

 

[irksomesauce]

Hell, yes!!

218 yeas in the House, 51 in the Senate, the President's sig = done deal.

At the very least, it'll further help cull the rINO herd on 11/6/18.

There is no greater good President Trump can lead this great nation back to than the natural law of subsidiarity (even if unconsciously).

Edumacation is a great place to start!

 

[sr71plt]

Well, I do realize that we need to pull back the money currently going to try to guarantee everyone in the country a certain level of access to education and assure that we are developing the right mix in an educated workforce so that we can pay for the president's immigrant wife to live in Trump Tower and to pay for the Secret Service protection for the president's children as they go about the world promoting his business interests that he isn't supposed to have.

 

[sr71plt]

Edumacation is a great place to start!

And you have revealed why you are a dope on this issue.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I actually went through school, elementary and high school, before there even was a Department of Indoctrination...er...Education. Looking back on what and how I was taught, it was way different than what and how my children and grandchildren were/are being taught. They are also treated, (I want to say wrong, but I should probably say differently) differently. They are all being made the same.

Just a little food for thought.

 

[sr71plt]

You mean they may not grow up to write dirty novels about incest and cheating wives?

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Good riddance.

 

[FeeNicks]

shut it down

jail the "teachers"

sell the kids as sex slaves

 

[FakeNews]

An interesting Op-Ed from the Los Angeles Times.

For better schools, abolish the politicized Department of Education and give local districts more control... http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-e...lish-education-department-20170106-story.html

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

One size truly does not fit all.

 

[Libsam]

I called it!

 

[Conager]

The best thing about Betsy DeVos is that she is polarizing. The left will finally understand that they do not want some fundamentalist telling some liberal bastian school or predominantly English as a second language school how, and what, they should teach.

It is a lot easier to understand the perils of one-size-fits-all national education policy when your own ox is being gored.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

The best thing about Betsy DeVos is that she is polarizing. The left will finally understand that they do not want some fundamentalist telling some liberal bastian school or predominantly English as a second language school how, and what, they should teach.

It is a lot easier to understand the perils of one-size-fits-all national education policy when your own ox is being gored.

Good point.

#BLM hates the po-po, right up to the mugging...

Like Harry Reid and the nuclear option, what you do today comes back to you.

 

[EternalFantasy]

How will federal funding, or educational funding work if this decentralization takes place?

 

[Conager]

Good point.

#BLM hates the po-po, right up to the mugging...

Like Harry Reid and the nuclear option, what you do today comes back to you.

In hindsight Harry Reid is to be revered. Democrats have always been able to stuff their cabinets with radicals because all you have to do is put up a woman or a minority with radical views and you're a racist or misogynist if you vote against them. Republicans always stuff their cabinets with rinos because they have to moderate to appease the Democrats to get the cabinet picks through. As you see you with Betsy DeVos or Clarence Thomas women and minorities are in no way insulated if they are Republicans because of course they're not real women or real minorities or they wouldn't be Republican.

 

[Conager]

How will federal funding, or educational funding work if this decentralization takes place?

Federal funding amounts to 8%. Keep in mind they took that money out of those communities in the first place so you simply take less. Which they should be doing with lower taxes anyway.

The reality though is because of the ratchet effect once given nothing is ever taken away by Washington. They'll probably work out some system of block grants back to the state which is inefficient and stupid but that's what they'll do.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

How will federal funding, or educational funding work if this decentralization takes place?

Most likely Congress votes back in the use of block grants.

They will go to the worst of the worst Democrat Union strongholds and the money will be squandered, as usual on everything but the students.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Federal funding amounts to 8%. Keep in mind they took that money out of those communities in the first place so you simply take less. Which they should be doing with lower taxes anyway.

The reality though is because of the ratchet effect once given nothing is ever taken away by Washington. They'll probably work out some system of block grants back to the state which is inefficient and stupid but that's what they'll do.

.....

 

[Libsam]

Will retired public school teachers be able to teach at private schools after retiring?