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

[the watcher]

Many schools struggle to fund Special Education and would drop it if they didn’t receive federal funding

The state shouldn't have to depend on Uncle Sugar for funding anything. The feds take tax money from the states' residents and dribbles it back to them with PC demands.Uncle Sugar puts a big hook in that cheese bait, and it is destroying our culture with it's "conditions" for it's grants. The people in the Federal syndicate can't be as concerned with kids as the local taxpayers, no way.

 

[SweetSue92]

Of course
They serve a vital function to education
Many schools struggle to fund Special Education and would drop it if they didn’t receive federal funding
Would you just throw these students away?

Why do you love paper pushers more than teachers?

 

[rightwinger]

Why do you love paper pushers more than teachers?

Because those paper pushers get funding where it is needed

Why do you hate funding for low income districts and special education?

 

[DGS49]

The real "problem" with public education in the States is the way most of them pay for it. School taxes are generally County taxes and taxes from the local school district; the states kick in a lot, and the Feds kick in a bit. As a result, school districts with a relatively low real estate tax base have less to spend, relatively speaking, than more prosperous school districts. As a result, prosperous school districts have more to spend on education, they pay their teachers more, they have more ancillary personnel, their facilities are larger and more robust. When a teaching vacancy comes up in a posh district, there are hundreds of applications; when they come up in a poor district, they go begging for teachers and hire less-qualified/desirable people to be teachers.

This is bullshit. The highest compensation should go to the teachers in districts where the students are the most problematic, not the rich districts where there are two college degrees per household, the kids have gone to expensive pre-schools, and parents hire tutors and private counselors when their kids have problems.

A "free" public education is guaranteed to the little tykes by the STATE, not the local school district. The State should provide essentially ALL of school funding, with a baseline objective of giving the same amount, on a per-student basis, to every school district, except where there are so few students that such a ratio would not generate enough money to operate a viable district.

The Feds have no legitimate role in K-12 education, except to the extent that students' "Constitutional" rights are jeopardized by the way the State fulfills its obligations("separate, but equal" and shit like that), in which case the DoJ might want to step in.

Nothing good has been gained by the Feds stepping in to finance "higher education," and they have no power to do so in any event. Anything they touch they **** up. Their involvement has resulted in massive inflation in tuitions for generations, to the extent that it is virtually impossible these days for anyone to work their way through college - an experience that is as fulfilling as the education itself.

 

[rightwinger]

The real "problem" with public education in the States is the way most of them pay for it. School taxes are generally County taxes and taxes from the local school district; the states kick in a lot, and the Feds kick in a bit. As a result, school districts with a relatively low real estate tax base have less to spend, relatively speaking, than more prosperous school districts. As a result, prosperous school districts have more to spend on education, they pay their teachers more, they have more ancillary personnel, their facilities are larger and more robust. When a teaching vacancy comes up in a posh district, there are hundreds of applications; when they come up in a poor district, they go begging for teachers and hire less-qualified/desirable people to be teachers.

This is bullshit. The highest compensation should go to the teachers in districts where the students are the most problematic, not the rich districts where there are two college degrees per household, the kids have gone to expensive pre-schools, and parents hire tutors and private counselors when their kids have problems.

A "free" public education is guaranteed to the little tykes by the STATE, not the local school district. The State should provide essentially ALL of school funding, with a baseline objective of giving the same amount, on a per-student basis, to every school district, except where there are so few students that such a ratio would not generate enough money to operate a viable district.

The Feds have no legitimate role in K-12 education, except to the extent that students' "Constitutional" rights are jeopardized by the way the State fulfills its obligations("separate, but equal" and shit like that), in which case the DoJ might want to step in.

Nothing good has been gained by the Feds stepping in to finance "higher education," and they have no power to do so in any event. Anything they touch they **** up. Their involvement has resulted in massive inflation in tuitions for generations, to the extent that it is virtually impossible these days for anyone to work their way through college - an experience that is as fulfilling as the education itself.

Where I live in Maryland, county taxes pay for the schools and schools are run by the county.
There are about ten High Schools and numerous middle and grade schools.
Teachers are hired county wide and resources are bought by the county and distributed where needed.

Seems more efficient than individual districts

 

[Polishprince]

Because those paper pushers get funding where it is needed

Why do you hate funding for low income districts and special education?

The Dept of Education isn't needed for that. In fact, funding the high paid bureaucrats in Washington to run the department siphons money away from helping the indigent.

 

[rightwinger]

The Dept of Education isn't needed for that. In fact, funding the high paid bureaucrats in Washington to run the department siphons money away from helping the indigent.

They make significantly less that similar positions in the private sector and many states

 

[dudmuck]

Most of those people vote Democrat anyway. No great loss.