Trump seeks to shrink federal role in education with new order

[Eugene]

Last edited Sat Jul 22, 2017, 02:21 PM - Edit history (1)

Source: Reuters

POLITICS | Wed Apr 26, 2017 | 6:59pm EDT

Trump seeks to shrink federal role in education with new order

President Donald Trump on Wednesday ordered Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to review the U.S. government's role in school policy, which supporters cheered as the first step in creating more local control in education and critics worried could lead to lower quality schools in poorer neighborhoods.

DeVos has 300 days "to review and, if necessary, modify and repeal regulations and guidance issued by the Department of Education with a clear mandate to identify places where D.C. has overstepped its legal authority," said Rob Goad, a Department of Education official, according to a transcript of a White House call with reporters.

The second most powerful Republican in the House of Representatives, California's Kevin McCarthy, said the federal government had in recent years exceeded its legal authority in creating regulations and guidance

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The Democratic National Committee, though, said the order was politically motivated, with Trump wanting something to show in school policy in his first 100 days.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-education-trump-idUSKBN17S2U8

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. We are under attack, we need to start acting like it.

The rest of you better as hell be ANGRY as hell!

[Warpy]

2. That will get slapped down fast, too much established law in the way

That fuckhead still thinks he's running a company and all he has to do is send out memos and people will jump to do it all.

I keep hoping the frustration level will get him out sooner rather than later.