Stalin
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Not just cruel - also illegal.
If you think that children working in coal mines is fine, frump is your man...
"..On Tuesday, June 17, the Trump administration signed an agreement stripping the Department of Education of two of its largest remaining responsibilities: special education and civil rights enforcement.
The Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, which administers $15 billion annually for more than 7 million students with disabilities, is being transferred to the Department of Health and Human Services. The Office for Civil Rights is being moved to the Justice Department’s civil rights division.
This move advances the administration’s use of “interagency agreements” to abolish the Department of Education through attrition, dismantling its workforce and authority piece by piece. Programs formally remain in existence, but they are being transferred to agencies that lack the capacity and expertise to administer them properly and are headed by officials who are outright hostile to their stated mission.
The latest agreements follow 10 others that shifted more than 100 K-12 and higher education programs to the Departments of the Interior, Labor, State, Treasury and Health and Human Services. These transfers have included school safety, academic supports, family engagement, Title I, career and technical education, higher education grant programs, the $1.7 trillion student loan portfolio and, eventually, FAFSA administration.
The measures follow, nearly to the letter, the fascist blueprint laid out in Project 2025. The Department of Education is being reduced to a legal shell that nominally retains responsibility for outsourced programs, including liability when they fail, while the machinery needed to run them is scattered across multiple agencies with neither the staffing nor the intention to do so.
Tuesday’s transfers mark a sharp escalation of the assault on public education. They create the conditions for a large-scale destruction of access to special education, and violate the law.
The key legislation establishing these rights—the Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975 (amended and renamed the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) in 1990), Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990—rests on the equal protection principles recognized and applied to public education by the US Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling.
Parents and disability rights advocates fought to end a system in which more than a million children with disabilities were excluded from public schools, institutionalized, or forced into menial labor.
comrade stalin
moscow
If you think that children working in coal mines is fine, frump is your man...
"..On Tuesday, June 17, the Trump administration signed an agreement stripping the Department of Education of two of its largest remaining responsibilities: special education and civil rights enforcement.
The Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, which administers $15 billion annually for more than 7 million students with disabilities, is being transferred to the Department of Health and Human Services. The Office for Civil Rights is being moved to the Justice Department’s civil rights division.
This move advances the administration’s use of “interagency agreements” to abolish the Department of Education through attrition, dismantling its workforce and authority piece by piece. Programs formally remain in existence, but they are being transferred to agencies that lack the capacity and expertise to administer them properly and are headed by officials who are outright hostile to their stated mission.
The latest agreements follow 10 others that shifted more than 100 K-12 and higher education programs to the Departments of the Interior, Labor, State, Treasury and Health and Human Services. These transfers have included school safety, academic supports, family engagement, Title I, career and technical education, higher education grant programs, the $1.7 trillion student loan portfolio and, eventually, FAFSA administration.
The measures follow, nearly to the letter, the fascist blueprint laid out in Project 2025. The Department of Education is being reduced to a legal shell that nominally retains responsibility for outsourced programs, including liability when they fail, while the machinery needed to run them is scattered across multiple agencies with neither the staffing nor the intention to do so.
Tuesday’s transfers mark a sharp escalation of the assault on public education. They create the conditions for a large-scale destruction of access to special education, and violate the law.
The key legislation establishing these rights—the Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975 (amended and renamed the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) in 1990), Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990—rests on the equal protection principles recognized and applied to public education by the US Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling.
Parents and disability rights advocates fought to end a system in which more than a million children with disabilities were excluded from public schools, institutionalized, or forced into menial labor.
Trump strips special education and civil rights oversight from the Department of Education
There is little more than a shell remaining of the federal agency responsible for assisting public education at the state and local level.
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comrade stalin
moscow
