Discussion: Trump Signs Executive Order Seeking To Limit Federal Role In K-12 Education

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Trump Signs Executive Order Seeking To Limit Federal Role In K-12 Education Trump Signs Executive Order Seeking To Limit Federal Role In K-12 Education Back to article
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A report will be returned to the White House and *eventually made public,* officials said.

I’m sure. :unamused:

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Yep, the states know best how to give the rich districts more resources, cut off the poor, and stuff the minorities in to the worst schools. That’s what local control, without federal guidelines and rules, looks like, we’ve already seen it, and several states will gladly go right back to it (and sort of have through the use of private schools).

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Oklahoma would be eager to expand its holocaust program. The Holocaust will remain a stain on our history until the day Roe v. Wade is overturned.

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…and we’ll be able to reinstate that age-old scientific explanation for the origin of the universe. Creationism.

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An example of federal “overreach” in K-12 education:

101st Airborne at Little Rock Central High.jpg
By US Army - US Army, Public Domain, Link

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Republicans have long chafed at federal government involvement in education, asserting that states and local governments, school boards and parents Tea Party–infested GOP state legislatures are best positioned to decide what students (especially minority students in poor school districts) learn.

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