Outside of all the culture wars BS, there is a serious discussion to be had about the role of the Ed Dept. It’s not clear to me that there was ever much to be gained by adding a layer of Federal control on top of that of the states. As you have so effectively argued over the years, trying to do national education standards is a fool’s game. The department mainly functions as a $ conduit, shuffling resources from one state to another. If it went away, I don’t think it would be missed.
ICYMI, Texas, of course, is leading the way on dismantling higher education's "indoctrination."
"The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents on Thursday unanimously directed its flagship university to disband an LGBTQ+ studies minor, months after conservative lawmakers and websites accused the program of promoting 'liberal indoctrination' on campus."
"The LGBTQ Studies minor is one of 14 minors and 38 certificate programs that administrators said were 'low-producing,' according to a new process they developed to identify and eliminate programs with low enrollments. But faculty argue the process used inaccurate information and faulty data. It also kept faculty from providing input about curriculum decisions, they said.
Outside of all the culture wars BS, there is a serious discussion to be had about the role of the Ed Dept. It’s not clear to me that there was ever much to be gained by adding a layer of Federal control on top of that of the states. As you have so effectively argued over the years, trying to do national education standards is a fool’s game. The department mainly functions as a $ conduit, shuffling resources from one state to another. If it went away, I don’t think it would be missed.
ICYMI, Texas, of course, is leading the way on dismantling higher education's "indoctrination."
"The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents on Thursday unanimously directed its flagship university to disband an LGBTQ+ studies minor, months after conservative lawmakers and websites accused the program of promoting 'liberal indoctrination' on campus."
"The LGBTQ Studies minor is one of 14 minors and 38 certificate programs that administrators said were 'low-producing,' according to a new process they developed to identify and eliminate programs with low enrollments. But faculty argue the process used inaccurate information and faulty data. It also kept faculty from providing input about curriculum decisions, they said.
https://www.texastribune.org/2024/11/07/texas-a-m-lgbtq-studies-minor/