Senate floats a bill to abolish the totally useless Department Of Education
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gop-senator-debuts-bill-abolish-education-department-following-trump-campaign-promise
FIRST ON FOX: A Republican senator introduced a measure to do away with the Department of Education on Thursday after President-elect Trump suggested doing so on the 2024 campaign trail.
Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., debuted the "Returning Education to Our States Act" in the Senate, which would abolish the Department of Education and charge various other departments with certain responsibilities and programs that are currently administered by it.
During his presidential campaign, Trump said, "One thing I’ll be doing very early in the administration is closing up the Department of Education in Washington, D.C., and sending all education and education work it needs back to the states."
When the improved Senate takes the reins this January (along with the improved House) we can FINALLY get rid of this useless Jimmy Carter boondoggle in Washington.
A lot of presidents have promised to abolish the DOE, but it looks like President Trump will get the job done.
Some experts contested his ability to do this, noting he would need congressional approval. However, with an incoming Republican trifecta in Washington, D.C., and Rounds' bill, he might have it.
"The federal Department of Education has never educated a single student, and it’s long past time to end this bureaucratic Department that causes more harm than good," Rounds said in a statement provided to Fox News Digital. "We all know local control is best when it comes to education. Everyone raised in South Dakota can think of a teacher who played a big part in their educational journey. Local school boards and state Departments of Education know best what their students need, not unelected bureaucrats in Washington, D.C.
The facts:
1. Washington accounts for only 7 percent of all education funding. Most money for public schools is raised at the county level.
2. There is not ONE actual teacher employed by the DOE. And somehow those yahoos are supposed to dictate to real teachers how to do their job?
3. A nice bonus would to take the Department of Education's budget and block grant it to the states, where it would help raise teacher salaries.
FIRST ON FOX: A Republican senator introduced a measure to do away with the Department of Education on Thursday after President-elect Trump suggested doing so on the 2024 campaign trail.
Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., debuted the "Returning Education to Our States Act" in the Senate, which would abolish the Department of Education and charge various other departments with certain responsibilities and programs that are currently administered by it.
During his presidential campaign, Trump said, "One thing I’ll be doing very early in the administration is closing up the Department of Education in Washington, D.C., and sending all education and education work it needs back to the states."
When the improved Senate takes the reins this January (along with the improved House) we can FINALLY get rid of this useless Jimmy Carter boondoggle in Washington.
A lot of presidents have promised to abolish the DOE, but it looks like President Trump will get the job done.
Some experts contested his ability to do this, noting he would need congressional approval. However, with an incoming Republican trifecta in Washington, D.C., and Rounds' bill, he might have it.
"The federal Department of Education has never educated a single student, and it’s long past time to end this bureaucratic Department that causes more harm than good," Rounds said in a statement provided to Fox News Digital. "We all know local control is best when it comes to education. Everyone raised in South Dakota can think of a teacher who played a big part in their educational journey. Local school boards and state Departments of Education know best what their students need, not unelected bureaucrats in Washington, D.C.
The facts:
1. Washington accounts for only 7 percent of all education funding. Most money for public schools is raised at the county level.
2. There is not ONE actual teacher employed by the DOE. And somehow those yahoos are supposed to dictate to real teachers how to do their job?
3. A nice bonus would to take the Department of Education's budget and block grant it to the states, where it would help raise teacher salaries.
