Education Secretary Linda McMahon announces mass layoffs at Dept. of Education - 50% of workforce

If you want to go after education, the biggest waste of money is Sports
Tens of millions are spent on facilities, coaches, insurance, travel, equipment

Almost no athletes will turn pro
 
specious point but ok, so accusing the cuts to/at DoE of being harmful to education would be a lie then?
Not at all
They support college loans, special education, poor school districts

What are you going to replace it with?
 
Powers listed in the Constitution of which the majority of the shit the Government oversees is not listed. The Fed has gone way beyond it's mandate. Time to cut all that crap and give it over to the States to decide if they are necessary.

How much can we save if the Air Force is eliminated?

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US Constitution, Article 1, Section 8 Provide for the common defense.

And in the same section, very next line it says "promote the general welfare".

Article I Section 8 would then define defense as Army, Navy, and calling the Militia of the states. Nothing about Air Force or Space Force.

My youngest Son serves in the Air Force.

My daughter is also in the Air Force (Major, getting ready to go over 10) stationed overseas.

The point is that just because words aren't in the Constitution specifically doesn't mean spending on them is unconstitutional. Spending by Congress on education is Constitutional because it promotes the general welfare they are mandated to provide. Spending by Congress on the Air Force is Constitutional because it promotes the common defense they are mandated to provide.


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What source are you using and why/how is it incorrect and mine is wrong?

About 15 sites that checked all agree. I can even tell you the vote totals for each party on the bill. Google is a tool you should learn to use, dipshit!
 
As someone that works in a School Districts Human Resources Department (I'm the residence HR Information Systems Geek), I've watched teacher recruitment now for decades. I've got a BS in technology and a MEd. After the Navy I was going to be a Middle School Tech Ed. teacher - but private industry snagged me first. But that's a different story.

IMHO - we are in a teacher staffing criss and have been for a number of years. Pre COVID we were hitting 100% or very close to it fully qualified/licensed staffing levels, including hard to staff Math and SPED. Now we are having to hire unlicensed teachers (mostly those already with Bachelor degrees) into special programs where they work now and have course requirements to be completed in 2-3 years to complete license requirements.

And the suprising thing is, it's not so much the pay that has caused the long term problems. It's the disparaging of teaching as a profession that has caused the long term staffing issues. People just don't want to go into teaching like they used to as a career field. Pay may be "a" factor, but I think it relates more to teachers/administrators not being able to effectivley deal with disipline issues (which leads to disruption in the classroom) and demonization of the profession in the media for decades.

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I was hired into teaching with a BA in History and no teaching coursework and given a temporary certificate. I had a few months substitute teaching a few years before and I was an instructor for AT&T in the employee benefits area.

I taught math for a year and a half before getting my full certification. I went to school at night to meet the same requirements as everyone else. I was then certified in math and social studies for grades 6-12.
 
Mostly agree
Some majors provide low value and few job prospects. Just because you love Art or music or history doesn’t mean anybody is going to pay you for it.
Going into debt is of little value.
But most students already major in subjects that offer high pay.
I’d be okay if someone wants to major in a concentration that doesn’t directly map to a field with higher pay with the goal of getting a BA or BS….. but it needs to be through a combination of Community College and In State Public University to minimize Federal Student Loan Debt.
 
So I guess before 1980, no one in the United States of America received an education?

How ******* retarded does that sound?

Somehow, people got educated in the US prior to 1980 and the DOE.

SWEAR.

We even had planes and spaceships and medicine and shit….all before the department of education.
Many kids in poor states were not getting any education, nor many special needs kid. The first handicapped kid I ever had in my schools was my senior year when we had a kid suffering from cerebral palsy. Before that, none!
 
About 15 sites that checked all agree. I can even tell you the vote totals for each party on the bill. Google is a tool you should learn to use, dipshit!
Officially it signed into Law October 1979 and then went Operational May 1980. You really need to make better use of your time and stop splitting hairs.
 
I was hired into teaching with a BA in History and no teaching coursework and given a temporary certificate. I had a few months substitute teaching a few years before and I was an instructor for AT&T in the employee benefits area.

I taught math for a year and a half before getting my full certification. I went to school at night to meet the same requirements as everyone else. I was then certified in math and social studies for grades 6-12.

Understood, different situation. Here in Virginia...

With a BA in History you would qualify for a Provisional License good for 3 years. During that period you would have certain education courses to complete to qualify for a full renewable license. With a full Collegiate Professional license in History, you would apply for an Provisional math endorsement and be allowed to teach math (if you have sufficient basic math credits). Your history license would have remained in force, the math would have been a provisional rider until full license coursework was completed (with a limited time frame, 2 or 3 years depending).

That's different then what I'm talking about now because your initial degree directly related to the subject you were teaching.

What we're having to do now is hire people with unrelated degrees for example a BA in business, to teach say Elementary. The employment is more equivalent to a full-time substitute (non-licensed) while they participate in a program plan that provides both the core subject and education class to achieve full licensure.

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What tasks are they doing and what are the results? $298 Billion per year for US to rank in the bottom among industrialized nations for math and reading proficiency?? School
Violence is up to the point recruiting and retaining teachers is a challenge.

At a minimum, this place needs a detailed audit and personnel role review. What I see is a lot of bloat and its mission appears to be at the service of the NEA Union, not the taxpayer.
Perhaps the reason is we test reading in English. All the illegals might do much better if we tested them in Spanish like other countries do.
 
Understood, different situation. Here in Virginia...

With a BA in History you would qualify for a Provisional License good for 3 years. During that period you would have certain education courses to complete to qualify for a full renewable license. With a full Collegiate Professional license in History, you would apply for an Provisional math endorsement and be allowed to teach math. Your history license would have remained in force, the math would have been a provisional rider.

That's different then what I'm talking about now because your initial degree directly related to the subject you were teaching.

What we're having to do now is hire people with unrelated degrees for example a BA in business, to teach say Elementary. The employment is more equivalent to a full-time substitute (non-licensed) while they participate in a program plan that provides both the core subject and education class to achieve full licensure.

WW
The procedure is almost exactly the same. I qualified for both subjects at the same time. There are no math teachers with degrees in math anymore. Two of my colleagues had degrees in Economics. Others were in Physics, Chemistry and other hard science. I had 30 hours of mathematics with that history degree, along with numerous engineering courses in aerospace, mechanical, and computer engineering. To get my math certification, I had to take two classes, one of which didn't even exist when I was in college the first time. I helped the professor teach my statistics class. He learned my background and told me I would be given an "A" if I assisted him with students doing the classwork, so I became his assistant.
 
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Interesting, suddenly the left wants trannies in sports to be decided at the local level.

Those communities know best, according to the left.

BUT ONLY ON TRANNIES. :auiqs.jpg:

State governments can handle anything the DOE does,

WHICH, AGAIN….DID NOT EXIST BEFORE 1980.
The Department of Energy did exist before 1980.
 
Perhaps the reason is we test reading in English. All the illegals might do much better if we tested them in Spanish like other countries do.
First of all, need to reduce the number of Illegals. On a parallel path, if a large number of Spanish-Speaking immigrants would like to seek legitimate citizenship and we can provide that path, then testing in Spanish has potential.
 
So, what IS the fault of the Dept. of Education?

Or in your view, is "nothing" their fault?
Student loans should have never been incorporated into the Education Department.

Funding can be allocated to the states with a lot fewer bureaucrats.

Special education programs should be centrally managed to prevent states from mismanaging them as they did before 1979. This is the one thing they do right.
 

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