President Trump signed an executive order Wednesday to start pulling the federal government out of K-12 education, following through on a campaign promise to return school control to state and local officials.
The order, dubbed the “Education Federalism Executive Order,” will launch a 300-day review of Obama-era regulations and guidance for school districts and directs Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to modify or repeal measures she deems an overreach by the federal government.
“For too long the government has imposed its will on state and local governments. The result has been education that spends more and achieves far, far, far less,” Mr. Trump said. “My administration has been working to reverse this federal power grab and give power back to families, cities [and] states — give power back to localities.”
He said that previous administrations had increasingly forced schools to comply with “whims and dictates” from Washington, but his administration would break the trend.
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As we all know, the SPENDING is not a problem.
ReplyDeleteThe Federal Reserve Bank prints the money the US Government spends.
They can print as much as they wish.
The issue here is one of CONTROL of the agenda / message.
Why would the international bankers want to give up control of school agendas?
Do they have enough control of the State Governments now to relinquish this control on the Federal level?
Even if so, why give it up? It is much easier to control the curriculum from one central point as opposed to 50 different points of control?
I wonder what is up with this decision?
YES!!!!
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ReplyDeleteAnything to get Betsy DeVos out of government is a good thing.
Did you even read the article????
Delete“directs Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to modify or repeal measures she deems an overreach by the federal government.”
Not fond of her, but if she gets rid of common core, then woo-hoo!
ReplyDelete1:36. You need to redo your comprehension test because you failed.
The initiative is to return control of schools to the states (perhaps) and local boards. The federal government has no business dictating how schooling at the local level operates.
A much smaller Federal footprint might be useful as a clearinghouse for information about what seems to work in states and local schools, but without the ability to cajole and force feed. Localities could adopt promising approaches or not.
Great, now get the gov't out of doctors' offices.
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