Sec. 2. Closing the Department of Education and Returning Authority to the States. (a) The Secretary of Education shall, to the maximum extent appropriate and permitted by law, take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Department of Education and return authority over education to the States and local communities while ensuring the effective and uninterrupted delivery of services, programs, and benefits on which Americans rely.
Was on the radio, some notes:
The responsibility of FAFSA (which is 2/3 of it’s budget) likely goes to Treasury and honestly I don’t think they can realistically pull that back legally, at least anytime soon. Disability funds supposedly will move somewhere too.
The DoE itself likely will exist in the same limbo as USAID since legally it requires Congress, and judges can and will challenge illegal moves. That said, I say limbo because USAID may have got people back but empty buildings and ongoing stuff is ruined. Expect that from DoE, even though it shouldn’t be allowed.
My own info, though, is they only provide public schools about 5 to 10% budget on average, and yes, it’s heavily towards rural districts. This likely will have very little impact on blue states, although don’t go celebrating as budgets are already tight in several places and even blue states will cut into education to fund other things like fire relief. Our Blue states are still no where near as good as many European and Asian country educational institutions.
The money from federal grants mostly goes towards vulnerable student populations like special education, English learners, and poverty. So the most vulnerable students will probably feel these cuts the most, unless states step up to address the gaps.
I hope whoever is considering cutting the DoE realizes that among the many, many things they do is nuclear weapons research
I think you’re thinking of the department of energy, not education.
lol I’m too used to DoE referring to Department of Energy I didn’t connect that it’s the same acronym.
The current admin is also attacking the department of energy because they do a lot of climate and renewable energy research. But that’s among many, many other things they do.
Yeah, apparently the department of Education is officially ED. So your confusion was natural.
This is getting a little more out there, but fuck it, we’re all going to be nervously grasping our crystals and consulting our horoscopes soon enough. If you believe AARO/AATIP, they also contract out research to study recovered UFOs. One of the major points of the congressional UAP hearings in 2023 was claiming that we have multiple recovered vehicles under the domain of the DoD and DoE and that we need to open source the research on them. Not sure I believe them, but it was certainly an allegation I wasn’t expecting.