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The White House is drafting an executive order to dismantle the Department of Education, aligning with Trump's long-standing pledge.

However, Congress must approve the agency's abolition, making its passage unlikely despite GOP control. Critics, including the National Education Association, warn this move would harm students, increase costs, and weaken protections.

GOP lawmakers have repeatedly attempted to eliminate the department since its 1979 founding.

Trump also recently signed an order expanding school choice, reinforcing the Republican agenda of decentralizing education policy.

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[-] Diddlydee@feddit.uk 21 points 1 day ago

How you all haven't had a revolution I'll never understand.

[-] prole 4 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Read Brave New World and Fahrenheit 451 for some insight.

Also, that whole treatise on language that Orwell stuck in the middle of 1984...

[-] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 28 points 1 day ago

When the capitol of the country is possibly thousands of miles away, and missing work means losing health insurance and becoming homeless, it terrifies a lot of people that can't even miss one day of work for being sick, let alone the days' journey and expense it would take. Much longer than the maximum 8 hour drive it would take to get from anywhere in Germany to Berlin, by comparison.

Not an excuse either, the US is just huge, and set up for citizens to fail if they actually stand up.

[-] makyo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Surely there are protests in places other than DC too though

[-] teft@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Bread and circuses. No one wants to revolt.

"The super bowl is on and I just heated up some nacho cheese dip."

[-] Gerudo@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago

I'd love to be at the protests tomorrow. Why it's on a weekday I'm not sure, but my capitol is hours away, and I work. I just started a new job and barely make enough to make ends meet until I get my first commission checks. I wasn't working for months prior.

I literally can't afford to go protest.

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