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"The governors who were there to cheer on this latest attack on public education all have one thing in common beyond their party affiliation: they are all pursuing disastrous education privatization schemes in their states."

~ David Pepper

Returning total control of education to the states will not only assure poorer educational outcomes, but will speed privatization.

#Trump #DepartmentofEducation #education #Project2025 #race #privatization
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https://davidpepper.substack.com/p/the-giveaway-trumps-anti-education

"The bulk of the education department’s budget is made up of federal grant and loan programs, including the $18.4bn Title I program that provides funding to low-income K-12 schools and the $15.5bn Idea program that helps cover the education costs for students with disabilities."

~ Jem Bartholomew

#Trump #DepartmentofEducation #education #Project2025 #race #income #disability
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/21/first-thing-trump-signs-executive-order-to-dismantle-us-department-of-education

"The politics of shutting down the Department of Education is another massive leak in his boat."

~ Dan Pfeiffer

#Trump #DepartmentofEducation #education #Project2025 #race #income #disability
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https://www.messageboxnews.com/p/trumps-politically-insane-decision

“The only way fascism works, the only way authoritarianism works, is if the country is in chaos and mis-educated. So year after year, attacks on public education were not by accident. They were by design, they were strategic.”

~ Jamaal Bowman

Returning control of education to the states will assure poorer education, and also religious intrusion in the educational process.

#Trump #DepartmentofEducation #education #Project2025 #race #income #disability
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https://zeteo.com/p/deportations-and-dumbing-down-trump-attacks-education

"What’s really occurring is an attack on the American mind.

Throughout history, tyrants have understood that their major enemy is an educated citizenry. …

Trump’s attack on the American mind — on education, science, libraries, and museums — is an attack on the capacity of Americans for self-government."

~ Robert Reich

#Trump #DepartmentofEducation #education #Project2025 #democracy
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https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-attack-on-the-american-mind

"BREAKING: People who don't know the difference between 'their,' 'there,' and 'they’re' have announced to shut down the Department of Education."

~ Sandesh Lamsal

Whose even certain that they'res a there their any longer?

#Trump #DepartmentofEducation #education #Project2025 #democracy
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https://www.threads.net/@sandesh.1994/post/DHccRXNBPVj

"Some 7.5 million kids with physical and learning disabilities are helped by the Education Department’s assistance with special education and individualized education plans (IEPs), but if Trump and the Project 2025 crew have their way, that could change drastically."

~ Doktor Zoom

#Trump #DepartmentofEducation #education #Project2025 #democracy
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https://www.wonkette.com/p/on-trumps-order-education-dept-grabbed

@Crystal_Ship https://newrepublic.com/post/193024/donald-trump-education-department-fox-news-poll

@wdlindsy

meaning what? you don't actually believe our public schools are teaching anyone how to think, do you?

@Crystal_Ship I was simply pointing you to a report, which says that there’s considerable opposition to his attempt to shut down the Department of Education. Of course I do not believe propaganda about public schools coming from Republicans.

@Nazani Yes. On the weekend, I just had a conversation with someone active in local Hispanic cultural-political life, who told me how important those grant programs had been in diversifying the field of nurses in our part of the country and giving young Latino women and women from other minority backgrounds a chance to enter nursing school and offer their considerable talents to all of us.