Elon Musk backs Trump’s plan to close the Department of Education.

[Mowgli]

You aren’t thinking out loud. This is the exact move. Cutting access to higher education to give “value” back to bachelors degree as a paper class barrier to the middle class.
Less students, less educated “liberals” coming out of college now stuck with no prospects of moving up and out the hood.

Privatizing non subsidized government backed college loans then allows corporations in to predatorily lend to incoming college students, or not at all for the smart ones that figure out it’s not worth it.

Couple that with gutting federal funding for public schools is the same move to privatize education to allow corporations to make money just like they did with the prison system. GOO is going where potential money can be made. Now you’ll have private companies running the schools but still funded by public money with zero say from citizens on what’s taught or how things are run (school lunch programs are about to get nuked, serving that shyt they served in the Matrix that tastes like a bowl of snot)

It’s all totally fkd

I’m loving that rural schools will get bushed though, that shyt is hilarious and I didn’t even think about that

You sure states won't just reallocate funding for black schools to the rural ones.

 

[Wargames]

You sure states won't just reallocate funding for black schools to the rural ones.

or other things all together like how Brett Farve convinced the Governor to take money allocated for welfare and use it for sport related construction at his daughter’s college.

Don’t get me started on the trainings they gave about “don’t leave a paper trail” because without a paper trail they will always try to waive away what they are doing as completely legit.

 

[BrothaZay]

Red States about to be in the shytter fr fr

Came in here to say this.

It will backfire. Let them do it.

 

[The_Unchosen_One]

Right wingers on Twitter are wanting the Bible taught in school

 

[Mowgli]

Came in here to say this.

It will backfire. Let them do it.

Probably shouldn't. They're trying to refill those empty prison cells that have been falling for the last decade. This is a way to make the comeback of prisons seem natural.

 

[BrothaZay]

Probably shouldn't. They're trying to refill those empty prison cells that have been falling for the last decade. This is a way to make the comeback of prisons seem natural.

I’m not following you. Can you break it down more simple

 

[Mowgli]

I’m not following you. Can you break it down more simple

Closing the DOE limits educational access, especially for low income Black communities by removing federal support and oversight/accountability and placing it in the hands of state governments. This leads to underfunded schools, higher dropout rates, and reduced job opportunities, fueling a direct pipeline to incarceration that fills prisons with those left behind by an education system that ends up being privatized. Meaning school for money.

The hope is that the white man gets the money and funds all schools equally and or to their true needs irregardless of racial demographics for those districts....

 

[RammerJammer]

Those red welfare states are so fukked. We're going to see massive brain drain from the south.

Our governor is a 80 year old drunk

45th in Education
2nd to last in health care

But our politicians and voters love to focus on more important issues like men playing women’s sports (which doesn’t even happen here) and CRT.

 

[Spence]

Closing the DOE limits educational access, especially for low income Black communities by removing federal support and oversight/accountability and placing it in the hands of state governments. This leads to underfunded schools, higher dropout rates, and reduced job opportunities, fueling a direct pipeline to incarceration that fills prisons with those left behind by an education system that ends up being privatized. Meaning school for money.

The hope is that the white man gets the money and funds all schools equally and or to their true needs irregardless of racial demographics for those districts....

Plessy & Brown v board are up next with this Red ass bench overturning everything.

After that it’s back to “separate but equal”

 

[WIA20XX]

What does the Department of Education do?

It administers federal grant programs, including the $18.4 billion Title I program that provides supplemental funding to high-poverty K-12 schools, as well as the $15.5 billion program that helps cover the cost of education for students with disabilities. The department oversees the $1.6 trillion federal student loan program, and sets rules for what colleges must do to participate.

Is that all?

It also runs achievement tests dubbed the Nation’s Report Card and collects statistics on enrollment, crime in school, staffing and other topics.

He's got a problem with this?

And the agency is charged with enforcing civil rights laws that bar discrimination in federally funded schools on the basis of race, sex and other factors. The Biden administration has used that power, for instance, to prohibit schools from discriminating against students on the basis of gender identity. Trump could do the same in the opposite direction, perhaps barring schools from allowing trans girls and women to compete on women’s sports teams.

Oh, now I see it.

 

[AStrangeName]

What this mean for my student loan ?

You still gotta pay them off

 

[jwinfield]

How will HBCU’s be affected.

Fast Facts: Historically Black Colleges and Universities (667)

The NCES Fast Facts Tool provides quick answers to many education questions (National Center for Education Statistics). Get answers on Early Childhood Education, Elementary and Secondary Education and Higher Education here.

nces.ed.gov

Ninety percent of all undergraduate students at HBCUs received some type of financial aid2 in 2019–20. Specifically, 83 percent received grants,3 65 percent took out student loans,4 4 percent received work-study awards,5 2 percent received federal veterans education benefits,6 and 18 percent had parents who took out federal Direct PLUS Loans (source).

Among undergraduates at HBCUs who received any financial aid in 2019–20, the average total amount received was $17,300. The average amount received from grants was $9,200, and the average amount received from loans directly to students was $7,700 (source).

Student financial aid comes from federal, state, and institutional sources. Among undergraduates at HBCUs in 2019–20, 82 percent received federal aid, 27 percent received state aid, and 35 percent received institution aid (source). The average amounts for students receiving financial aid from these sources were $13,200, $3,400, and $6,400, respectively (source).

 

[-DMP-]

Ngl all I know them for is handling my loans. I’ll have to read more into their other functions

 

[OperationNumbNutts]

That was a fantastic doc made 10ish years ago looking towards a hopeful future at the end

Its gotten a lot worse and is about to get even more chaotic

Yes it is old. The point was the privatization of education and low-income students only hope was through a lottery. I do agree it will get more chaotic.

 

[Spence]

Yes it is old. The point was the privatization of education and low-income students only hope was through a lottery. I do agree it will get more chaotic.

We have a lottery system here too but luckily the charter we got in to wasn’t at capacity yet. Once these funky ass school choice vouchers come about, our schools going to be fkn swamped