rightwinger
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Yes you doOf course they add valueStates don’t send money to the Fedsand then the states can stop Sending it to the Feds so that the Feds can just send back lessRemove the DOE and you remove the Federal dollars
The American taxpayer does
Ok, in the end it is the same. We the people send tax dollars to fund The Ed, some of which they keep and some of which they send to the states.
The Ed adds no value to justify what they keep.
They set educational standards for the country. They facilitate the exchange of educational information between states. They provide spot funding to needy districts.
What they don’t pay for is $60 million Football Stadiums
State and local governments fund those
I do not need nor want the Fed Govt telling my school districts what standards they have to meet. The states are more than capable of exchanging educational information if they wish to do so without a middle man.
In 1982 the US students ranked number 1 in math and science. Now we are 38th and 24th.
Tell me how the Dept of Ed is helping a damn thing.
Many states (I will just call them Red States) shortchange educational standards. Their priorities are providing the bare minimum educational standards at the lowest cost.
Without the federal Government requiring basic standards, they would provide even less
I agree. the DOE could be doing more but we provide them a minimal budget and Trump and DeVos cut even more
Those other counties that you speak of don’t divide their educational system 50 ways and among tens of thousands of individual school districts