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While COVID basically ended the education of students for several years so that teachers could catch a break from teaching, TRUMP is expected to sign an executive order ending the Department of Education that supported the teachers over the kids. This is a move that will fulfill one of his main promises made on the campaign trail.
A summary of the order in USA Today shows that it directs Education Secretary Linda McMahon to take “all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Department of Education and return education authority to the States.”
But make no. mistake; the order clearly directs the “uninterrupted delivery of services, programs, and benefits on which Americans rely.”
McMahon was confirmed as Education Secretary earlier this month, but Trump previously said he hoped she would put herself “out of a job.” The good news is she doesn't need the money.
A number of Republican governors, advocates for parental rights in education, and others are expected to be at the signing on Thursday. Trump's promise to close the DoE was met with cheers when he campaigned on the issue.
“I say it all the time, I’m dying to get back to do this. We will ultimately eliminate the federal Department of Education,” Trump said at a September rally in Wisconsin. “We will drain the government education swamp and stop the abuse of your taxpayer dollars to indoctrinate America’s youth with all sorts of things that you don’t want to have our youth hearing.”
No longer will children face learning loss over the cowardice of the DoE nor will gender identity changes and Critical Race Theory be pushed into their developing minds. Parents will no longer be kept in the dark about their child's education.
The department has already thus far eliminated about half its staff and recently terminated more than $600,000,000 in grants for training teachers in "divisive ideologies" such as anti-racism, social justice activism, and hiring teachers based on race rather than merit.
The department has already thus far eliminated about half its staff and recently terminated more than $600,000,000 in grants for training teachers in "divisive ideologies" such as anti-racism, social justice activism, and hiring teachers based on race rather than merit.
What a concept.
The order “will empower parents, states, and communities to take control and improve outcomes for all students,” Harrison Fields, White House principal deputy press secretary, said in a statement, adding that recent test scores from the National Assessment of Educational Progress exam “reveal a national crisis ‒ our children are falling behind.”
The U.S. ranked 34th in mathematics with an average score of 465 (on a scale from 0 to 1,000), which is below the OECD average of 472. Top performers like Singapore (575), Hong Kong (540), and Japan (536) significantly outpace the U.S., representing a gap of roughly two to three years of schooling. Notably, about 30% of U.S. students scored below Level 2, considered the baseline for basic proficiency, compared to just 8% in Singapore.
Reading scores placed our students in 12th position, somewhat better than math, but not so great when it comes to "bang of our buck" spent on American education.
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President Jimmy Carter established the useless Department of Education in 1979, and while it would require an act of Congress to totally eliminate it, Trump's executive order is slated to dismantle the department for now.
Trump’s order will certainly face legal challenges from critics like teachers’ unions, who are more concerned about themselves rather than the children, and have been clear that they want the DoE to stay so they can play at being educators of the American young.
Trump’s order will certainly face legal challenges from critics like teachers’ unions, who are more concerned about themselves rather than the children, and have been clear that they want the DoE to stay so they can play at being educators of the American young.
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