Education Department Cuts Half It's Staff

Wednesday, March 12, 2025

" The Education Department plans to lay off more than 1,300 of its employees as part of an effort to halve the organization's staff -- a prelude to President Donald Trump's plan to dismantle the agency.

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"McMahon told employees to brace for profound cuts in a memo issued March 3, the day she was confirmed by the Senate. She said it was the department's "final mission" to eliminate bureaucratic bloat and turn over the agency's authority to states."

At least this isn't political, lmao. I mean, the facts are that the most reliable way of predicting if a person will vote Republican is if they have a low level of education.

www.cnn.com

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2025-03-12 11:53 AM | Reply

I guess the cruelty is the point.

#2 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-03-12 12:59 PM | Reply

Authority already largely rested with the states.

Want to blame America's state of education? Blame states that do a piss poor job of educating their residents.

This will do nothing more than fracture education and cause states with good programs to pull away from states with bad programs. The deep red south will fall further behind and need to be floated even more by blue states.

#3 | Posted by jpw at 2025-03-12 01:13 PM | Reply

There's only 2600 employees at the Department of Education? (I read the article the peak was 4100.)

"She said it was the department's "final mission" to eliminate bureaucratic bloat and turn over the agency's authority to states.""

What dies that even mean, because education is already controlled by the States, and that's why education is worse in poor Red states, and poor Red states like it that way.

#4 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-03-12 01:55 PM | Reply

Maybe we can break down into micro units where we're surrounded by people who think like us and all have the same goals.

First-century church?

Communes?

What comes after anarchofascism?

#5 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-03-12 02:04 PM | Reply

If what snoofy said is true .

What dies that even mean, because education is already controlled by the States, and that's why education is worse in poor Red states, and poor Red states like it that way.
#4 | Posted by snoofy

What was DOE doing to prevent this, if States already control education?

I could see the DOE if there was a standardized testing, but I recall these are racist when Bush was pushing no child left behind.

So really no need for large DOE.

#6 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-03-12 03:04 PM | Reply

and that's why education is worse in poor Red states, and poor Red states like it that way.
#4 | Posted by snoofy

Is Connecticut a red state?
www.cnn.com

#7 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-03-12 03:07 PM | Reply

Putin's demented orange bitch's fraudulent university was a model of efficiency.

thenationaltriallawyers.org

#8 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-03-12 03:10 PM | Reply

The Dept of Ed has been a abject failure since inception as our students are doing much worse than before it was founded in '77. Eliminate and let the Dept of the Treasury send the funds to the states.

#9 | Posted by MSgt at 2025-03-12 03:30 PM | Reply

This is a good time for all of you here to look into a role in your State's Department of Education as well as your local school boards.

#10 | Posted by HeuristicGratis at 2025-03-12 03:54 PM | Reply