More Department of Education attacks on higher education. My question, is it about DEI or intellectual activity. I’ve been trying to think about anti-intellectual history in US and the primary sources which come to mind are Lost Cause propaganda and confidence schemes. No doubt these feed the likes of J.D. Vance, Russell Vought, Stephen Miller and their racist nurseries, but there are con men [sic] in both parties.
#DepartmentofEducation #DEI #AntiIntellectualism
https://apnews.com/article/trump-dei-universities-investigated-f89dc9ec2a98897577ed0a6c446fae7b?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share

#departmentofeducation has been closed with illegal executive orders.

I am glad a bunch of Attorney Generals are fighting back on that one.

I can see why that is not a very important department for most #maga folks as well, and they are the easiest group ever to make fun of!

https://scoopzapp.com/n/0zfMYGIP?ctype=native_video&nid=3854978664415&s=a7&pd=0LRF5CpA&hl=en_US&send_time=1741907967&actBtn=videoShare

#Trump is cutting the #DepartmentofEducation to make it ineffectual and ultimately close it down per #project2025. #Trumplicans don't want national standards so ALL students get the same and proper education. They want states to determine how dumb to make our children so they can more easily be indoctrinated and controlled.
#TelsaChainsawMassacre

"Tuesday afternoon, the Department of Education announced plans to cut nearly half of its employees"

"Education Department to cut nearly 1,300 employees as Trump vows to eliminate agency | PBS News"

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/education-department-to-cut-nearly-1300-employees-as-trump-vows-to-eliminate-agency

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/11/politics/department-of-education-offices-to-close-security-reasons/index.html

Something is up at the #DepartmentofEducation and it's not good.

In joint guidance led by Leticia James, a coalition of 14 attorneys general said neither an executive order nor a memo from the U.S. Education Department — as a “Dear Colleague” letter — threatening schools with #DEI policies could make or change the law #CivilRights
“The administration cannot ban diversity, equity, inclusion & accessibility efforts with a ‘Dear Colleague’ letter,” James said in a statement
#DepartmentofEducation #MSGAracism https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/03/05/ny-attorney-general-letitia-james-issues-guidance-supporting-dei-in-schools/ #FuckTrumpFascistRegime

Restructuring debt into another department/category would make #millenials, largely against Trump, into indentured servants.

The #departmentofeducation treats #studentloans ($1.64 trillion outstanding) as not 'exactly' assets to the debtor (US govt). This would remove flexibilty, and weaponize the debt, (further) crushing a generation.

To provide a billionaire tax cut AND keep a boot on millenials' necks.

#uspol

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/07/politics/student-loans-education-trump/index.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/03/07/public-service-loan-forgiveness-trump-executive-order/

Support for #highered in light of Trump's attempted #DEI ban: A letter jointly from the AGs of #Illinois, #Massachussetts, and #NewYork providing guidance for responding to Trump's "dear colleague" letter.

About half the letter is reproduced below.

[the Dear Colleague letter and accompanying documents] misconstrue Supreme Court precedent, wrongly imply that it might be unlawful for schools to consider the impact of policies and practices on diversity, and create a misimpression of the impact of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility programming and its legality. To be clear, nothing in the “Dear Colleague” letter or FAQ changes existing law and well-established legal principles that encourage—and even require—schools to promote educational opportunity for students of all backgrounds. The President cannot change longstanding legal precedent by executive order, and a Dear Colleague letter and FAQ document certainly cannot do so. The “Dear Colleague” letter has inspired fear, and the Attorneys General write to mitigate that fear.

...

[RE: legal experts' rebuttal to the Dear Colleague letter]: the professors explain the fundamental legality of common diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practices, and urge university leaders to “respond confidently, with both law and moral principle on your side, and not to sacrifice essential and legally defensible DEI initiatives that help universities fulfill their most basic mission to pursue truth and knowledge for the common good.” Our offices share in the professors’ call.

...

The February 14 Dear Colleague Letter mischaracterizes DEI programs... [which] provide all students an equal opportunity to learn and better prepare students to work in our diverse country and participate in our multiracial democracy. They are essential to promoting fair treatment and eliminating stigmatization. The SFFA decision has no bearing on these lawful DEI programs, and the February 14 Dear Colleague letter cannot and does not prohibit them.

...

The attached guidance on SFFA, first issued by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 2023 and updated in light of the DOE’s recent communication, provides additional information on legally compliant ways that educational institutions can continue to meaningfully and successfully achieve the worthy goals of diverse and equitable student bodies consistent with state law, Title VI, and the U.S. Constitution.

At the same time, the Attorneys General remind all educational institutions that they must themselves abide by the nation’s civil rights laws, whatever changes they may make to their programming and policies. Fear of the “Dear Colleague” letter or the loss of federal funding is not a justification to impose or reimpose discriminatory practices. The Attorneys General stand ready to enforce their States’ robust civil rights protections—which in many cases exceed federal civil rights protections—wherever discrimination may be found.

#DepartmentOfEducation
They're doing exactly what they said they would do and the popular consensus said they wouldn't really do. Be afraid now.

Trump prepares order dismantling the Education Department

"The draft executive action, obtained by NPR, acknowledges that the department and its signature responsibilities were created by Congress and cannot legally be altered without congressional approval."
https://laist.com/news/education/trump-prepares-order-dismantling-the-education-department

#Departmentofeducation

#donaldtrump

#LindaMcMahon

#EliminateEducationDepartment

#trumpexecutiveorder

https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-preparing-executive-order-telling-education-secretary-dissolve/story?id=119499614

Trump won't sign executive order to dissolve Department of Education today: Sources

Leavitt said it's "fake news" that Trump was expected to sign the order today.

By Arthur Jones II and Katherine Faulders
March 6, 2025, 12:02 PM

#DummyDonny , #ConvictedFelonTrump , wants to shut down the #DepartmentOfEducation because he is so dumb, he wants all his maggots dumber than he is! The #Opposition will fight. #Politics

Trump will try to abolish the Department of Education by executive order as early as today, but he’ll need Congress to pass a bill (H.R. 899) to formally eliminate it. My Democratic reps are certain to vote against this, but if you have Republican reps, please give them a call. They need to feel the full fury of every constituent who opposes this.
#uspol #departmentofeducation

https://5calls.org/issue/education-department-hr899/

Trump Threatens Campus Protesters
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/03/04/trump-threatens-campus-protesters/
In addition to threatening students with imprisonment, the U.S. president said he would end federal funding for any college, school, or university that allows “illegal protests.” By Julia Conley Common Dreams In a move that one critic said was likely…
#Politics #CivilRights #FreeSpeech #Gaza #Israel #Palestine #Protests #U.s. #Academia #AntiSemitism #CampusDemonstrations #ColumbiaUniversity #DepartmentOfEducation #DepartmentOfHealthAndHumanServices #Hamas #JuliaConley #PresidentDonaldTrump #U.s.GeneralServicesAdministration

If you said "Trump won't do Project 2025," I think I should be able to opt-out of ever seeing your opinions again.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/04/linda-mcmahon-education-department-final-mission-00210057

She's got her tag partner HHH in her corner, ready to tag in and deliver The Pedigree to any jabroni who questions her. This can't be real life.

#CharacteristicsOfFascism

11. Disdain for #Intellectuals and the #Arts
"#Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to #HigherEducation and #academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other #academics to be censored or even arrested. #FreeExpression in the arts is openly attacked, and governments often refuse to fund the arts."

Fascism, Anyone? by Lawrence W. Britt published in 2003 by Free Inquiry magazine.

https://voxpopulisphere.com/2017/08/23/lawrence-britt-14-characteristics-of-fascism/
#USPol #DepartmentOfEducation #DEI #DumbingUsDown

#Eugenics anyone?!! So much for so-called #AmericanExceptionalism! smh

'We're not prepared': States brace for #Trump's plans to dismantle the Education Department [#DepartmentOfEducation]

Trump has said he wants to leave school policy to the states, but state officials and lawmakers aren’t clear on what that would look like.

February 27, 2025, By Adam Edelman and Tyler Kingkade

Excerpt: "The largest questions revolve around who would pick up many of the agency’s most crucial responsibilities — among them, the disbursement and oversight of funding for schools with extra needs, including schools with large populations of impoverished students or schools with children with disabilities."

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/states-brace-trump-plan-dismantle-education-department-rcna192953?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
#USPol #KillThePoor #Genocide #Fascism #CharacteristicsOfFascism

The General Secretary of the #UnitedMethodist General Board of Higher Education and Ministry calls for the preservation of the United States #DepartmentofEducation

https://www.gbhem.org/news/dismantling-the-u-s-department-of-education-harms-us-all/

#Education #DepartmentofEducation #Petition Block Donald Trump’s Attempts to Abolish the Department of Education | #MoveOn
https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/block-donald-trump-s-attempts-to-abolish-the-department-of-education