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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.

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[–] yarr@feddit.nl 3 points 50 minutes ago

Hey evryone!! Big mooves are hapening in the world of Ed-U-Kashun! The Departmint of Edukation is gettin the boot!!! No more bossy beurocratz teling teechers what 2 do!!! Trumps doin it, an its about TIME!!

Thnik about it—why do we need a bunch of folks in Washintun teling local skools how 2 run??? It’s like they no better then us parints and edukaytors. Time too cut the kord and let fredom RING!!

But wate, some peepul are crying fowl!! The NEA an other groops are UPSET becuz they cant keep there grip on things. They want MORE RULEZ an HIGER TAXIS so they can stay in charge!?!? Can u beleev that?? It’s all about KEEPING POWER, NOT HELPIN KIDS!!!

Without the DOE skools can save monee an stop following outdate rulez!! Teechers can TEACH how THEY WANT and studants can LERN at THERE own pace!!! It’s like a fresh start 4 evryone!!!

And dont 4get Trumps skool choice oder!!! Now, local leeders can decide what wurks BEST for there kidz!! No more distunt beurocrats messing things UP!!

So, let’s MAKE IT HAPEN!!! The Dept of Edukashun is HISTORY!!! Skool choice is on the table, an local leeders are READY to take CHARGE!! Who needs a Dept of Ed when you got SMART FOLKS makin desishuns 4 ur kidz?? LETS GO EDUKASHUN FREDOM!!!

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 3 points 52 minutes ago

"We don't need no education" -- Pink Floyd, The Wall, 1979 & Donald Trump, Crazy Actionism, 2025

[–] stephfinitely@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Come on, other branches of government do your job. Even if you agree with the executive branch doesn't have this power.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 20 points 19 hours ago

If NBC thinks he needs an act of Congress then they haven't been paying paying attention to USAID.

Who the fuck am I kidding, they know damn well what's going on and refuse to print it.

[–] Shuddle@lemmy.zip 62 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Almost forgot Congress was a thing since there's been little to no mention about them in this shit circus

[–] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 1 points 53 minutes ago

The Republicans have all the power in Congress and they are all afraid of Trump.

[–] skozzii@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 hours ago

Don't worry, Congress holds the purse/wallet so nothing can get done without their approval as they have the spending power. That is unless they hijack the payment systems to no longer require congress and making complete control one step closer...

Ohhhh... wait....

[–] Skyrmir@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago

That's by design, they stay silent and don't take the polling hit.

[–] madjo@feddit.nl 10 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

And the sad part is that a lot of teachers voted for Cheetolini.

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 hour ago

What possible reason could they have for voting so directly against their own interests?

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 6 points 19 hours ago

that will... teach them?

[–] cultsuperstar@lemmy.world 37 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Keep people dumb. Write their own history to "educate" the dumb. Sounds about right.

[–] quixote84@midwest.social 7 points 1 day ago

For this reason, if you have anything with at least 32 GB of RAM and a GPU, you should get a copy of Ollama and test it out running a local copy of Deepseek. That's going to soon become the best 0 new dollars tool for access to education.

[–] BmeBenji@lemm.ee 17 points 1 day ago

This CollegeHumor video was 8 years ahead of its time: If the Other Party Wins

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 46 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I was going to ask if this means I no longer have to pay back my student loans, but of course I know better than that.

[–] xenomor@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

The debt that the government owns would be sold to private lenders and the whole situation will get dramatically worse.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 52 minutes ago* (last edited 50 minutes ago)

Yeah probably... I'm also ~1 year of payments away from Public Service Loan Forgiveness. Just waiting for the letter/email telling me they're clawing it back.

Most of my student loans are with a private lender anyway, and it's 1000x worse than the federal loans. They don't even have repayment plans. If you can't pay the minimum (which doesn't even cover the entire principal), well fuck you too bad

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 23 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Shit is getting done so scattershot, I think there's a really, really good chance that a lot of records are going to fall through the cracks or "fall through the cracks" as different databases are deleted, offices closed, code based altered, and agencies demolished.

[–] VolumetricShitCompressor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 41 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Would be funny af if some madlad goes maliciouscompliance and deletes all records on student loans or something like that.

[–] moonbunny@sh.itjust.works 4 points 21 hours ago

Don’t forget those backups need to also be corrupted or otherwise unrecoverable as well

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

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[–] RamenJunkie@midwest.social 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thats the goal.

Evennif somehow there is another election, everything will be too broken to even begin to repair it.

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[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago
[–] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 5 points 23 hours ago

So how is Betsy DeVos gonna siphon money for public schools to provide schools?

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 105 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In case anyone is still wondering if Republicans are enemies of the United States of America, you need not wonder anymore.

[–] Jericho_Kane@lemmy.org 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why use big words when small words do trick.

Soon enough, when you have to select a language on a devive, the difference between: english (uk) and english (american) will make a whole lot more sense.

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

It would have been possible, for example, to say Big Brother is ungood. But this statement, which to an orthodox ear merely conveyed a self-evident absurdity, could not have been sustained by reasoned argument, because the necessary words were not available.

[–] YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub 296 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (32 children)

Congress is required for all sorts of shit that Elon is doing but that isn’t stopping Elon.

Laws are not some sort of natural force. They are implemented by people and all of those people are either fascists or cowards.

Trumps immunity plus his pardon power make him king. All of his minions can do all the illegal things they want. Trump can then pardon them and he isn’t liable for their crimes if he is doing something roughly in line with his duties are President. John Roberts fucked us all.

The only way this is going to be solved is by people power. Organize. Fight these fascists.

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[–] meowmeowbeanz@sh.itjust.works 76 points 1 day ago (12 children)

The executive order’s a symbolic gesture—Congress won’t scrap the Department outright. But the subtext? Steady erosion. Shift student debt oversight to Treasury, pare back civil rights investigations, let federal education funds atrophy. States then fill the vacuum: red ones push vouchers, defund “woke” curricula, blue ones scramble to plug gaps.

The playbook’s transparent. Undermine trust in public institutions, then offer “choice” as salvation. Rural GOP districts take the bait, then recoil when their Title I lunches and special ed services evaporate. Even conservatives quietly rely on federal data systems and grant streams—hypocrisy’s baked in.

Latest school choice expansions? Distraction tactics. Real damage accrues in the margins: disabled students lose protections, civil rights complaints backlog, teacher retention plummets. ED’s survived 40 years of GOP vitriol because dismantling it’s all optics, no payoff.

Predictable cycle. Provoke outrage, let chaos incentivize privatization. Rinse, repeat.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 1 day ago (9 children)

The executive order’s a symbolic gesture—Congress won’t scrap the Department outright.

You're wrong. They will not wait for Congress to do anything.

Who the fuck is going to stop them, you?

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[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The executive orders are the start of rule by decree, and as long as the legislative and judicial branches let it happen, he'll get away with it.

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 205 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Education is Fascisms biggest enemy. That's why.

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