The planned order follows years of campaign promises from President Donald Trump to abolish the department — something he cannot do without congressional approval.

Summary

The White House is drafting an executive order to dismantle the Department of Education, aligning with Trump’s long-standing pledge.

However, Congress must approve the agency’s abolition, making its passage unlikely despite GOP control. Critics, including the National Education Association, warn this move would harm students, increase costs, and weaken protections.

GOP lawmakers have repeatedly attempted to eliminate the department since its 1979 founding.

Trump also recently signed an order expanding school choice, reinforcing the Republican agenda of decentralizing education policy.

  • DiddlydeeEnglish
    20·
    17 hours ago

    How you all haven’t had a revolution I’ll never understand.

    • skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de
      26·
      17 hours ago

      When the capitol of the country is possibly thousands of miles away, and missing work means losing health insurance and becoming homeless, it terrifies a lot of people that can’t even miss one day of work for being sick, let alone the days’ journey and expense it would take. Much longer than the maximum 8 hour drive it would take to get from anywhere in Germany to Berlin, by comparison.

      Not an excuse either, the US is just huge, and set up for citizens to fail if they actually stand up.

        • skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de
          12·
          16 hours ago

          Oddly if you look into a lot of them, there were a lot of “small business owners” that aren’t beholden to a company or people connected to someone else’s wealth, or illegal under the table wealth, or other shady things. It has been a while since I looked into it, but it was a combination of personal fiscal stupid decisions, access to rich with money to burn. The tl;dr was basically: they didn’t care what they did to themselves because they thought The Orange Oompa McBurger Loompa was going to anoint them all soldiers of his magic rich person court.

          When you have a fatalist/selfish/sure-thing psychology working “outside” the system, you really don’t care if your kids have medication, and you don’t lose your health insurance because you’re taking Ivermectin from the neighborhood vet that sells it under the table.

    • Gerudo@lemm.ee
      7·
      15 hours ago

      I’d love to be at the protests tomorrow. Why it’s on a weekday I’m not sure, but my capitol is hours away, and I work. I just started a new job and barely make enough to make ends meet until I get my first commission checks. I wasn’t working for months prior.

      I literally can’t afford to go protest.

    • teft@lemmy.world
      71·
      16 hours ago

      Bread and circuses. No one wants to revolt.

      “The super bowl is on and I just heated up some nacho cheese dip.”