White House preparing executive order to abolish the Education Department
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President Donald Trump promised for years to abolish the department — which he can't 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.

  • meowmeowbeanz@sh.itjust.works
    582·
    14 hours ago

    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
      51·
      2 hours ago

      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?

    • Queen HawlSera@lemm.eeEnglish
      61·
      7 hours ago

      The playbook’s transparent. Undermine trust in public institutions, then offer “choice” as salvation.

      So that’s the game

      • Soulg@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        53 minutes ago

        Been the Republicans game for as long as I can remember.

        “The government sucks, it’s too big, and it’s broken. Elect me so I can break it more to prove I was right”

    • Kayday@lemmy.world
      17·
      14 hours ago

      Congress doesn’t need to be okay with it if Elon’s cronies waltz in and kick everyone out.