Funding black students and providing them with civil rights protection is “garbage”The DoE is garbage and one of the reasons black children underachieve in this country as a group. You aren't serious if you want them to be around.

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The Real Impact of Eliminating the Department of Education
Eliminating the Department of Education could worsen racial inequities by cutting federal funding to poor schools.time.com
Today, Black students disproportionately attend segregated and under-resourced classrooms. Eliminating the Department of Education would worsen this trend by cutting federal funding to the schools that need it most. In lieu of a federal Department of Education, the Trump Administration is pushing a school voucher program agenda that prioritizes putting money in the pockets of families who already have plenty so that they can send their kids to private school and further erode the idea of school as a public good. What’s more, eliminating the Department of Education would mean schools would not need to provide children with disabilities the resources they need and are guaranteed under federal law.
And yet, with the promise of an executive order that calls for dismantling, or at the very least dramatically whittling down the work of the Department of Education, President Trump and other conservative politicians threaten to make it more difficult for public schools to survive and build a path towards education equity. Attacking the Department of Education hurts millions of young people and their families. It will have harmful, severe, and lasting effects on the quality of education received by children across the country that will be felt for generations.
Gutting this department threatens to roll us back towards the worst days of school segregation. I believe this because, as historians will tell you, the Department of Education was created to address racial inequity.
The Department of Education enforces Title VI, a civil rights law that prohibits race discrimination in the use of federal funds and Title IXwhich prohibits gender discrimination. The federal government has had a long history of protecting civil rights of students. Without the Department of Education, school districts may be emboldened to restrict access to quality education and ignore complaints of discrimination or hate against students based on race, gender identity, disability status, religion, and immigration status.