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

[Blaster]

Who is going to send it to them? There has to be a heartbeat in there somewhere.

Relax Admiral.

 

[DukeU]

Where is the waste?
Helping poor school districts?
Helping special needs?

The poor districts don't look like they are getting help. Matter of fact it looks like they are getting worse.

Post a district that was poor when DOE was created that is no longer considered poor.

I'll wait.

 

[Lisa558]

Wow, finally government workers are getting laid off it's about time! With $2 trillion dollar deficits they don't have the money to fund all these government jobs so yeah, here's your last check go get a real job moocher.

All my regular “haunts” - from grocery stores to shopping malls - are much, MUCH less crowded here in the DC area in the middle of the week, mid-day. The number of government workers running errands and doing retail therapy in the middle of the workday was actually more than I imagined.

 

[rightwinger]

The poor districts don't look like they are getting help. Matter of fact it looks like they are getting worse.

Post a district that was poor when DOE was created that is no longer considered poor.

I'll wait.

WTF?

They don’t make poor districts wealthy.
They just help them get better schools than their taxpayers can afford

 

[DukeU]

WTF?

They don’t make poor districts wealthy.
They just help them get better schools than their taxpayers can afford

Ok, so post one that's gotten better since DOE was created.

Should be easy.

 

[Slade3200]

Before anyone asks, yes, this is what we voted for.

Education Secretary Linda McMahon said that mass layoffs—nearly 50 percent—are just a first step toward eliminating the Department of Education and returning power to the states and the parents.

Linda McMahon: Mass Layoffs at Education Department Are Just the First Step to Returning Power to Parents

Education Secretary Linda McMahon said that mass layoffs—nearly 50 percent—are just a first step tow

redstate.com

What does this “returning power to the states” line actually mean?

 

[Mac-7]

You mean government workers would rather kill themselves than get a regular job - and show up for it?

Its a possibility for some

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

The poor districts don't look like they are getting help. Matter of fact it looks like they are getting worse.

Post a district that was poor when DOE was created that is no longer considered poor.

I'll wait.

Pick just about any school in Mississippi, Arkansas or Louisiana.

 

[DukeU]

Pick just about any school in Mississippi, Arkansas or Louisiana.

You pick and post the evidence.

 

[toobfreak]

How many students has the "Department of Education" educated?

EXACTLY

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

You pick and post the evidence.

Google works. I did that when working on my graduate degree. You too can learn.

 

[BluesLegend]

All my regular “haunts” - from grocery stores to shopping malls - are much, MUCH less crowded here in the DC area in the middle of the week, mid-day. The number of government workers running errands and doing retail therapy in the middle of the workday was actually more than I imagined.

I'm not surprised at all. That's why workers have been so resistant to return to the office. Because they have been goofing off for the last 4 years.

 

[DukeU]

Google works. I did that when working on my graduate degree. You too can learn.

Our Public School System Is Set Up To Fail — and It’s …​

In short, there has been virtually no educational progress with our nation’s children in more than 30 years – and urban districts are the worst performers.

The results nationwide are dismal, according to the Nation’s Report Card. Virtually every major city shows declining proficiency for their students, even as school spending continues to increase. For years, we have been told that more money is what is needed to improve student learning. Yet more money has not worked for one simple reason: money is not the problem. The problem is the system.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Our Public School System Is Set Up To Fail — and It’s …​

In short, there has been virtually no educational progress with our nation’s children in more than 30 years – and urban districts are the worst performers.

The results nationwide are dismal, according to the Nation’s Report Card. Virtually every major city shows declining proficiency for their students, even as school spending continues to increase. For years, we have been told that more money is what is needed to improve student learning. Yet more money has not worked for one simple reason: money is not the problem. The problem is the system.

My former state of Kentucky made major changes going from the states languishing at the bottom of the rankings to running about average, which was no small feat. Even with that improvement, the school where I taught years later was still the worst in the state, and funding had nothing to do with the reason why.

The federal government does not run the schools and mostly provides additional funding to schools that need improvement or qualify based on poverty. Changing how the funding is provided to the states will not make schools improve.

 

[rightwinger]

Ok, so post one that's gotten better since DOE was created.

Should be easy.

Buttfuk School District in Buttfuk West Virginia

 

[22lcidw]

Buttfuk School District in Buttfuk West Virginia

So, you have a point. How much is spent on the students for those districts and other districts.

 

[rightwinger]

EXACTLY
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Exactly

Since Dept of Education is not doing the teaching, they can’t be blamed for poor results.

 

[martybegan]

They tried that a few years ago and there was a full-scale revolt. Do you remember Common Core? That was a standard they encouraged states to follow but did not require it. Hysteria and misinformation killed it.

Because that was a bad standard, and it wasn't designed to be a "minimum" one.

Common core took how the smarter kids think and tried to impress it upon everyone. That's why it was a mess.

 

[martybegan]

If you only knew the truth. Politicians want schools to hold teacher's accountable using unrealistic criteria. A teacher teaching honors Algebra II gets compared to a teacher teaching Applied Mathematics, which was basically Algebra I spread across two years, with a minimum of 10 special education students in the class on IEPs. The results will never compare, and it is blatantly stupid to assume they were.

The truth is there needs to be some metric to evaluate things. I know it's more difficult to quantify than say my job, where we build something correctly and on time, or we don't and get our asses kicked.

But the reflexive "NOPE" given by the teacher's unions every time someone brings it up isn't exactly a good visual.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Republicans are threatened by education

We're against a $268B budget to deliver the worst education in the civilized world