The nearer we get to the U.S. Division of Training being thrown atop the trash heap of historical past, the nearer lecturers’ union mouthpiece Randi Weingarten will get to, because the Brits may say, shedding her nut as soon as and for all. If she ever had one, after all.
Weingarten is in critical free fall with the pending motion by President Trump to dismantle the Training Division, which solely ever existed as an costly thanks from Jimmy Carter to the lecturers’ unions for his or her assist in getting him elected, and return the overwhelming majority of its obligations, decision-making and budgets again to the states and native authorities. The president is anticipated to signal an govt order (EO) on Thursday afternoon, adopted by a symposium with educators and governors to debate the modifications coming to public schooling.
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None of us is aware of the precise particulars of what the dismantling will appear to be, however that is not stopping Weingarten from happening CNN and spewing a bunch of lies meant to scare viewers over the pending actions. Right here she is in all her glory:
Bought that? She claims a lot of the nation’s public faculty college students are disabled, poor or rural, which is absurd on its face. Randi, a supposed educator herself, does not appear good with numbers, so let’s check out some knowledge from the Nationwide Heart for Training Statistics (NCES), which intently tracks these sorts of issues.
In keeping with the NCES, about 15 p.c of the general public faculty inhabitants receives particular schooling companies, whereas 19 p.c of scholars are from rural communities. There’s doubtless an honest quantity of crossover between these two populations, so we will conclude that Randi’s use of “most” is a gross exaggeration.
As for the “poor” college students, that’s decided by the variety of pupils receiving free or reduced-price lunches at college. That quantity is fairly excessive, hovering round 50 p.c of all college students, however this is what Randi does not let you know: the lunch program is funded by way of the U.S. Division of Agriculture, which is now within the succesful fingers of Brooke Rollins. The children should not going to starve.
The numbers do not matter in any respect, after all, as a result of the funding is not going to be stripped away from any of those college students, however the already-dwindling energy of Randi Weingarten and the lecturers’ unions—who saved our children out of college throughout COVID and pushed radical ideologies as a substitute of instructing the fundamentals—will definitely be significantly diminished.
Here is a quantity for Randi Weingarten and the unions: Your stranglehold on the general public eduction system on the federal degree will probably be decreased by 100%.
That is all simply additional proof that the left thought they managed the whole lot, out of your youngsters’ minds to the ability corridors of DC, and so they have been principally proper. Issues are altering quickly and superbly because the president and DOGE recalibrate the federal authorities, and the left can solely sit on the sidelines and seethe whereas they watch all of it occur.
On a closing word, as a mother whose autistic son was not so way back part of the 15 p.c of scholars receiving particular schooling companies, I can attest to the truth that eradicating the feds from the method of getting your youngster educated will solely be a blessing to folks caught in that endless loop. This transfer by the Trump administration is addition by subtraction for a lot of, many American households.