Education Department cutting nearly half of workforce

[Slant Eyed Polack]

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The US Education Department announced Tuesday that it is cutting nearly 50% of its workforce, as President Donald Trump has proposed eliminating the agency altogether.

Hundreds will be laid off starting Tuesday evening, in addition to those who took voluntary “buyouts.” Those actions will cut the department’s workforce of about 4,100 at the start of the Trump administration in half...

Every Republican POTUS of my lifetime - not to mention RINO posers in Congress - have paid lip service to gutting the Dept of Ed. Trump is the only one who has lifted a finger. Halfway there, Mr. President!

 

[Patriot]

It is very refreshing and satisfying to see things like this actually getting done. Trump is operating at a business type pace, and the sloth-like Washington bureaucrats and their sycophants are losing their minds. Delicious.

 

[Melensdad]

I believe this is pretty close to accurate. From 1950 to today, there’s been a 100% increase in the number of students in public schools, a 243% increase in the number of teachers, and a 709% increase in the number of non-teaching staff, which are largely administrative positions. Only 47.5% of people in the public school system are actually teachers.

FWIW, the Dept of Education did not even exist while most of the members here on the forum were in K-12.

Seems like now the main screaming we hear is from the teachers unions. They money from the federal government could be given to states in "block grants" but the unions don't want that to happen because many states will use the money to allow a continuance of 'school choice' programs.

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[Patriot]

I believe this is pretty close to accurate. From 1950 to today, there’s been a 100% increase in the number of students in public schools, a 243% increase in the number of teachers, and a 709% increase in the number of non-teaching staff, which are largely administrative positions. Only 47.5% of people in the public school system are actually teachers.

And in the last 25 years, despite a $32 billion increase in annual budget to the DoE, math and reading scores among students in the U.S. have not improved. Central planning at its finest.