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Trump Staff Picks, Co-Conspirators and the Revolving Door of Departures

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gsdx said:
So, to all the millions of Americans to whom those pages apply and offer some assistance and information, Trump's government is saying, "Fuck you. You won't get any help from us."

So, "for all Americans" was just another lie.
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Re-read my post; the parts which do not reflect the administration's policies and priorities are misleading.
 
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So, did the top 5 at the State Department quit? Or were they oustered?

I'm sure Tillerson has got a strong grip on things, of course.
 
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smokeshadow said:
On top of that, Senate switch boards were inundated with irate callers about Department of Education pick Betsy De Vos

http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovemen...ary_creating_massive_negative_public_feedback

Who is providing all the pop-corn for this matinee? :rotflmao:
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Since the Constitution give the Federal government nor authority over the schools, the choice for Education Secretary should be someone who will respect the Constitution and leave schools alone.
 
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zoltanspawn said:
So, did the top 5 at the State Department quit? Or were they oustered?

I'm sure Tillerson has got a strong grip on things, of course.
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They are political appointees so they would be gone.

While a week ago TrumpCo. had only nominated 39 people for 690+ senior positions in their regime and had asked some 50 Obama appointees to stay on....I doubt if many people want to be hanging around the SS Titanic as Trump plays the fool with Twitter Wars.
 
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Benvolio said:
Since the Constitution give the Federal government nor authority over the schools, the choice for Education Secretary should be someone who will respect the Constitution and leave schools alone.
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The only function of the Department of Education should be making sure that civil rights laws are followed by schools and working to make sure schools have enough money to do their jobs. For example, provide funding for deferred maintenance, and to provide good science labs to all students 7 - 12.
 
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Kulindahr said:
The only function of the Department of Education should be making sure that civil rights laws are followed by schools and working to make sure schools have enough money to do their jobs. For example, provide funding for deferred maintenance, and to provide good science labs to all students 7 - 12.
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It was interesting during the hearing that some of the Senators were criticized for "grilling" Mrs DeVos about things like student loans and education research (which she was woefully unprepared to answer and often gave incorrect answers), so I asked myself, "What exactly does the DoEd do?".... it wasn't that easy to find on their website.

Odd, but the US Department of Education doesn't have it's mission statement directly linked on their website like many governmental websites do. I did find it with a Google search buried on a FAQ page:

When Congress passed Public Law 96-88 in 1979, creating the Department, it declared these purposes:

  • To strengthen the federal commitment to ensuring access to equal educational opportunity for every individual;
  • To supplement and complement the efforts of states, the local school systems and other concerned organizations and individuals to improve the quality of education;
  • To encourage the increased involvement of the public, parents, and students in federal education programs;
  • To promote improvements in the quality and usefulness of education through federally supported research, evaluation, and sharing of information;
  • To improve the coordination of federal education programs;
  • To improve the management and efficiency of federal education activities; and
  • To increase the accountability of federal education programs to the president, the Congress, and the public.

And on a statement from the last Secretary:
How Does the Department of Education Serve America’s Students?.
  • establishes policies relating to federal financial aid for education, administers distribution of those funds and monitors their use.
  • collects data and oversees research on America's schools and disseminates this information to Congress, educators and the general public.
  • identifies the major issues and problems in education and focuses national attention on them.
  • enforces federal statutes prohibiting discrimination in programs and activities receiving federal funds and ensures equal access to education for every individual.
What Is Not Part of the Department of Education’s Role?
Thus, the Department does not
  • establish schools and colleges;
  • develop curricula;
  • set requirements for enrollment and graduation;
  • determine state education standards; or
  • develop or implement testing to measure whether states are meeting their education standards.

It's really a joke to appoint someone with no experience as a teacher or administrator, no academic preparation for education, no background in education research and no knowledge of federal loan programs (currently $1.3 trillion dollars).
 
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Perhaps it is better if sometimes, at least, the Secretary be someone who is not part of the teachers union or the bureaucracies. Like other government workers, the teachers and bureaucrats tend to fall into the ideology that because they are important, they are entitled to unlimited funds. No matter how much we pay for education they always claim it is underfunded. If they are doing a poor job, it is always because the need more money. Republicans are also upset that the schools seem to believe that indoctrination into the liberal ideology of political correctness is an important or the important part of their job. Pro minority, anti majority. Anti white, anti Christian, anti free enterprise. More balance is needed. Here are schools teaching white privelege--teaching anti white. http://www.wnd.com/2015/06/white-privilege-chaos-sweeps-schools-nationwide/
Increasingly Islam is being introduced into schools where Christianity cannot be mentioned. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/islam-in-schools/
I don't expect you to agree, but perhaps you can see why some believe that the Secretary should be someone outside the educational establishment.
 
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^ Of course a Secretary doesn't have to be directly employed in their field....but they should be experienced and skilled in some aspect of it.

Being a right wing billionaire trophy wife who has a clear agenda of dismantling public education and equal access for all students in America does not count. Face it. She was chosen because her family have bankrolled the GOP and Trump...not because she might bring new intellectual breadth and depth to her job.

And DO NOT try to derail this thread with your anti-muslim rants. Seriously.
 
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Many conservatives would prefer to end the DOE because it tend to dictate matters outside its jurisdiction, such as the presidential bathroom decree and the vegetable edict.
 
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So here is interesting bit of news on the White House staff. Mother Jones provided this timeline of the green card issue with Trump's Muslim ban:

On Friday, the Department of Homeland Security determined that President Trump's immigration order didn't apply to green card holders.
Later on Friday, Steve Bannon overruled them and said it did.
Saturday night, DHS confirmed that the order applied to green card holders.
Today, chief of staff Reince Priebus apparently overruled Bannon and said it didn't apply to green card holders after all.

I've seen some speculation that by creating these new posts in the staff structure that folks like Bannon who have the President's ear but no real official status combined with the way he setting up his cabinet that Trump is setting up an administration that will be ruled by chaos as the various power players working against each other. The confusion of pecking order between Priebus and Bannon being the main point. Are we seeing the first signs of the impacts of Trump's political naivete?
 
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Kabluey said:
An apt statement.
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It's a true statement, if you measure success by standardized test scores. But when it the last time that you heard of foreign nationals wanting to attend school anywhere other than the US?

But ultimately the topic is a derail since the DOE is primarily a lender and equal rights enforcer. Control of the public education system still resides at the local and state level. Typically that is why educational experts and administrators end up at the DOE... not socialite lobbyists with a track record of religious activism and poor results with privatization.
 
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Benvolio said:
The US is among the highest spenders on egucation with poor results...
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KaraBulut said:
It's a true statement, if you measure success by standardized test scores. But when it the last time that you heard of foreign nationals wanting to attend school anywhere other than the US?

But ultimately the topic is a derail since the DOE is primarily a lender and equal rights enforcer. Control of the public education system still resides at the local and state level. Typically that is why educational experts and administrators end up at the DOE... not socialite lobbyists with a track record of religious activism and poor results with privatization.
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Our higher education still leads the world. But below that, we suck, and increasingly so. We're still running school on a factory concept from eighteenth century Britain, and it's time to change.
 
KaraBulut said:
It's a true statement, if you measure success by standardized test scores. But when it the last time that you heard of foreign nationals wanting to attend school anywhere other than the US?
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University education is a high earning export industry in all developed English speaking countries... But by any measure Harvard /Oxford / MIT / Cambridge are the prestige institutions from an outsider's perspective.

Wonder how many of his appointees actually earned their degrees...?
 
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