Trump Sets His Sights on “Eliminating” Public Education

When President Donald Trump signed the executive order yesterday, saying his intention “to start eliminating the Federal Education Department once and for all”, he did more than realized Independently. The Education Department, which created the Congress in 1979, is a key support in the right -wing cultural war. That is why the dismantling of the majority of the key functions of the agency is the main part of the Trump administration’s destruction of the administrative state: the agenda of state education has always been an anathema of the modern conservative movement.

Like other death sentences issued by the second Trump administration, watching other noir as the US International Development and the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau – the expectation of DOE will reach the most vulnerable population. The Department pays $ 18.4 billion in titles and grants with high-poverty state schools, and $ 15.5 billion under the program for students with disabilities. In general, the DOE grants make up 14 percent of budgets for state schools in the country. The agency also controls the loan program of 1.6 trillion. Dollars, which under the new Trump administration is likely to move to other agencies with a slight stimulus to continue to abolish the devastating exposure to student debt. The most likely scenario, says Jeff Hauser from the group “Group” Revolutionary Door Group “, is that the fate of assistance to the student loan will be resolved by territorial inertia for the government. This critical body is likely to be a version of what happened with USAID, whose skeletal remains are now located mainly in the state department. “They are going to make cuts that will make the mandatory functions of the mission of different departments cannot be achieved to take the maximum position before the trial,” says Hauser, referring to the following court problems in Trump’s order. “Law trials may well lead them to a situation in which functions are performed illogically, restructured in another department; for example, trade or treasury that has the remaining duties of federal assistance to students.”

However, for all the prompt chaos, the ideological short information behind the attack on the doe is extremely simple: to demolish the small democratic mission of the State School in America. Such an agenda, as advanced in the early American republic, is to maintain democratic civil life through the cultivation of informed citizenship-centered targets of the 19th-century US Champions School, such as Horace Man. But translated into the register of the right complaint against the culture, the behavior of pedagogy at the public purpose service is the cunning expropriation of family sovereignty and parental powers. Historian Rick Perltstein Prescribes basic logic When dissecting the 1970s tract at the alleged liberal institution in schools, in schools, Board tyranny. The author of the horse Marsner, a former apparatus from the Human Rights Group of Young Americans for Freedom, which later withstood the Heritage Fund, the book transforms the ideals of civic pedagogy on the head to cause the image of state schools as a record of the left wash of the brain and youth uprising:

The mother has long noted that after the child starts school, the rest of the family begins to catch more colds and flux. But other forms of the disease are not so obvious.

What about the traits of the person who begins to develop? What about the dissatisfaction with family rules and procedures? What about the boredom with the loss of curiosity in the ideas and the world as a whole? Why do children suddenly start complaining about the responsibilities of the little brothers or sisters? Why are they outraged by the preferences? Why does a stranger or unfamiliar slang suddenly appear in the conversation of the child?

As the childhood gives the preodes and adolescence, the condition is deteriorating, parents say these symptoms indicate normal ripening stages. But when the mother tells her average schoolboy, “you do not know what is right and not” or “You are not worried about me”, she knows in her heart that this is something more than a youthful assault that causes longing. A person’s offspring is not intended for the descendants to turn against the parents. But all children are in the same way, so Mrs. Middle America thinks that it should be intentionally … So far, it does not cause her to look more closely at the public schools of her children.

Much in many ways, the marchner’s cry drives away anti-poo that seller traveling Harold Hill A musical manAnd the main structure of the complaints remains the same. The only difference is that instead of breaking the marching tools and school uniforms, the right was tirelessly promoting what Trump is ready to deliver: a fully privatized training model. Consistent right breakdowns in the late 20th century about school psychologists, gay teachers and sex Ed, who were down the moral panic of the last day over the theory of critical race and Dei administrators, all of which Marsner did, the sacred prerogatives of the family and parental control over children and their behavior. But they come down to the same – the model of training, which was detached from any broad civic purpose, and therefore sacrifices the same private interests that have cut and burned the rest of the public sphere.

Linda McMuhon, Trump’s selection to head – and now to watch his expected deconstruction – perfect for introduction New School Privatization Age. McMuhon headed the former head of the Federation of World Work Federation without having experience in education, not used Central Analytical Center of MagazineInstitute of First Politics of America. The political store with enthusiasm supports private statutory schools, despite their clearly unambiguous educational services, as well as promoting savings accounts (ESAS) to further restructure access to school on the market network. And, like the statutory schools, Esas reinforces, not mitigating, steep inequalities of school systems, which are mainly funded by payments on real estate: by sending one -off subsidies to parents and students, they leave them to orient for priorities for their own, so that some recipients spend their hopes. Not school supplies) Before they can pay for enrollment. Esas is also a short circuit of any public responsibility in education funding; Because they mainly benefit private institutions, no governing council can field complaints and problems when, say, schools stop teaching Racist history of the countryEither face a decrease in the speed of pass and test performances. Like the current movement of the statutory school, a large -scale ESAS extension promises to become Playground Fraud and Pressing.

Speaking of educational grifts, one of the recent success stories in Doe before Trump’s return to the office was help strengthen the predators Commercial College. The contract reduced that the White House has already created in the department, effectively reduced its supervision in this sector, which is infected with fraud. “There is a rule-it is called a 90-10 rule, according to which these schools can receive 90 percent of the government’s revenue, and in their prosperity, larger profit universities have received up to $ 1 billion of grants Pell and other federal money,” says Aaron Ament, president of the non-profit network of the National Defense Defense Defense. “They effectively fired each staff member of the student assistance officer who participated in the supervision of profitable universities.”

In her confirmed hearings, McMahon herself confessed that the fallower could not be canceled without a congress – something that will not happen even with the majority of GOP in both houses. That’s why Trump tries to strike through massive dismissal And the executive order – just like USAID and CFPB were allocated and abandoned. That is why this order has already been announced for the court problem, trade union teachers, civil rights groups and propaganda outfits like Ant. However, the same gloomy calculation that has destroyed USAID and CFPB may prevail here as the battery of the hostile market and ideological subjects are preparing to turn another concern into the predator ball.