Jesus wept…
Revealed: Trump education cuts mean years of work – and millions of dollars – go to waste
Staffers at US Department of Education say severe cuts in the name of efficiency are having the opposite effect: ‘You can’t even quantify the loss’
The education secretary, Linda McMahon, presented sweeping reductions at the US Department of Education as an efficiency drive, hailing firings and funding cuts as a “significant step toward restoring the greatness” of the country’s schools system.
Staff inside the department disagree.
The Trump administration has axed many research programs which have yet to be completed, according to workers, putting years of work – on which the federal government spent tens of millions of dollars – to waste.
Nearly 50% of staff at the US Department of Education was fired last week, with more than 1,300 employees given termination notices and nearly 600 workers taking voluntary resignation offers. Offices covering research, data and statistics were decimated.
A Department of Education employee who survived the cuts likened the experience to a funeral. “People were crying, breaking down at the human toll,” they told the Guardian. “These people are not bureaucratic bloat: they’re vital to helping improve educational outcomes for our nation’s children, and to ensuring states comply with the law. It’s death by a thousand cuts.”
Staff were particularly concerned about the decision to halt research projects, years after they started, that were nearly complete.
Nearly all employees at the department’s Institute of Educational Sciences (IES) were fired, and more than 160 education research funding contracts and grants worth $900m were cancelled.
Many of the research projects were commissioned to take place over five years. “We were in year four, which means there was a lot of research that was almost done, but is now never going to see the light of day,” one fired IES employee said.
They cited one study into the early impact of a literacy program in Michigan. The outcome of the research will now not see the light of day.
Most of the money spent on such research will now “yield nothing for the taxpayers, nothing for schools, nothing for students,” the employee said. “You can’t even quantify the loss.”
…wow.
He has simply amputated the Department of Education to allow Republican States to impose their Christofascist education system upon their ill educated, God Fearing underclass, locking them in perpetual ignorance.
The mutilation Trump is causing as political performance art will magnify an educational carnage that is incalculable.
The christofascist book burners have literally taken over the American library.
The American Midnight from Trump’s Orange Fascism is upon us.
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Trumps peace with Russia is fakenews with the Zelensky, Vance, Trump comedy show just another stunt to bamboozle the masses. Its a clown show welcome to the circus
This is why you don’t force woke ideology on people through government departments.
Because when people have had enough, they vote to break the mould and tear those institutions down.
What does WOKE mean?
Really? Did Trump campaign on this issue? Maybe he did, don’t remember, but it’s an absolute crock to say it’s justified.
What is woke ideology?
American Taliban.
Absolutely AB. I am now realising ZZ Top were actually raving iihadists.
This is what the exercise of power looks like, Martyn. No doubt the Biden administration did many things that his opponents disagreed with – but the Biden administration isn’t in power anymore, so the shoe is on the other foot.
What did you expect, Martyn? That when someone you disagree with was elected they’d only do things you approve of? Why on earth would you think that?
However both Dems & Republicans foreign policies remain on track
Basic arithmetic would tell you that Trump was in charge when 5 year research projects started. That is enough to show that your comment has no credibility. As history shows some research seems a bit pointless at the time but changing events make it useful later while the opposite can apply also. That can only happen if you have the research so the proposed destruction of the education department is ideology over common sense.
There is a lot of difference between a new paint job and demolishing the house although it appears that you have no comprehension about what is a sensible change and what is mindless vandalism.
Of course Trump wants to dismantle education. He was a dunce at school and has only survived this world because of his daddy’s money. You just have to hear the way Trump speaks to know he failed English.
A complete upending of normal society by a megalomaniac and his sycophants?
An accompanying litany of absurdities such as gender constructs cause air accidents , migrants eat people’s pets and bleach injections cure covid?
A Cultural Revolution? In the USA? Impossible!
Lenin; In the end we will not have to hang the capitalists. They will hang themselves and we will sell them the rope.
Khrushchev; We do not have to invade the United States, we will destroy you from within.
America’s great dumbing down.
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