I’d better get this written now, before the story disappears or turns itself inside out.
The offices of the U.S. Dept. of Education are “temporarily closed” today, according to their switchboard (1-800-872-5327).
Yesterday (Tuesday) President Donald Trump gave DOE personnel until 6 p.m. to vacate all Dept. of Education buildings, nationwide. They are expected to be re-opened tomorrow (https://www.yahoo.com/news/education-department-closes-office-buildings-204724307.html).
Major layoffs are also expected: some 1,300 “workers.” And $25,000 buyouts may be offered.
The Dept. of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has been looking into expenditures by the Education department, turning up such gems as these:
*A billion dollars (!) to advance “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” in the public schools
*Flying the “Pride flag,” supporting militant political and cultural aggression by Organized Sodomy
*Testing students at 53 Illinois public schools, NONE of the students tested were proficient in mathematics at their grade level. Zip, zero, nada.
*A 700-page “amendment” (!) has been added to Title IX “to stop harassment based on subjective gender identification”
The president has no power to abolish the Dept. of Education. That would have to be done by Congress. But he can certainly make life uncomfortable for them.
We, some years ago, seem to have entered a phase of history in which agencies created by governments to serve the public only rob them, bully them, insult them, and cheat them. “Public education” offers abundant examples–if “abundant” is not too tame a word for it.