The ONLY way to enforce that kids get the 504 accommodations they need to learn is federal disability laws. Otherwise individual principals and schools can just not care or deliver them. Lived it!

Absolutely true!

It’ll be fine The states have autonomy over lots of things; they can figure this one out too

No we cannot! But they will. They have the power. This country will have to lean the hard way bc that's what the voters wanted.

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States rights is such a bullshit doctrine. Why is it so hard to want human dignity for all?

Truth.

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You know what. I’m all for it. The Blue states are tired of subsidizing the red states’ children. LET THEM RAISE THEIR OWN TAXES TO EDUCATE THEIR OWN CHILDREN!!!

And the ironies continue to pile up: "especially in the south." Trump's supporters live in the south. Yes, self-sabotage is a real thing.

Thank you for plain, ordinary speak. Everyone's dancing around why it was created, what it does and why we need it. It's just what you said.

Ironically… mainly red states

They want state funded segregated religious schools. Not only segregated by race but also by sex. They want to indoctrinate white children in the ideology of Christian Nationalism and White Supremacy. Thats the goal. Don’t let them fool you with their BS about “ States Rights “.

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I like your style. All. 👏🏾 of. 👏🏾 this.

Remember tRump's mocking? He considers children with disabilities disposable; a joke.

This was when he metastasized.

This should have been his demise.

It should've been, but Americans are so bigoted and selfish, so unfortunately here we are.

I had somebody just this morning tell me, "he was just poking fun" Seriously, it doesn't matter what this guy does. People are going to think he's amazing. And if I hear one more person tell me what an amazing businessman he is, I'm going to vomit

Those that excuse his behavior secretly or loudly perform the same acts of ridicule. We got here because he is the epitome of all of their hate.

I concur. Some people surprise me tho!

I still don't understand the businessman glazing, he BANKRUPT A CASINO HOW DO YOU BANKRUPT A CASINO

I don't either! All they talk about is, "art of the deal" which I'll tell you right now is BS, I've been a sales person my whole life. There is no art of any deal that he's pulling. Everything he does is a last-minute knee-jerk reaction that he has to clean up. There's no art in being a douchebag

There are so many things that should have been his demise they are too numerous to count, yet here he is screwing up the country at an alarming pace.

Worst part is that people are supporting him & Elon no matter what and have zero idea what's going on. They're all ok with us being isolationists because "the world is ripping us off" Any bets on when they start manufacturing everything here?

This latest national security mistake is a big deal though

Do you really think anything's going to be done about it? I would bet my next paycheck that nobody's going to do anything about it and nobody's going to be reprimanded for it and we're just going to go on business as usual and probably blame somebody else for it

It's all over the news it's no small potatoes.

I still stand by the fact that I don't think anybody's going to do anything because everybody is too afraid of trump or speaking up or losing their job. Anyone else would have been fired and tried for treason. We will not see that happen here

The Trump administration's push to dismantle the Department of Education aligns with efforts to defund public schools, weaken civil rights enforcement, and shift toward religious education—threatening secularism, equity, and constitutional protections in U.S. schooling.

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Guess Red state kids are gonna grow up stupid, poor, and republican. Want fries🍟 with that?

Let’s be clear: saying “Let’s be clear” doesn’t mean a damn thing and in unbelievably cliche. Please stop doing it.

Education is a superpower and one of its superpowers is that people can educate themselves out of poverty and break the cycle of poverty. My father did that. One room high school to second in his class in dental school. Sent three children to college. Education is a superpower.

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She's right. The Department of Education was established in 1979 after a decade of "forced busing" failed.As a means of ensuring all American kids get at least a minimum standard of education. But Trump doesn't believe in education.Because it levels the playing field. Bad for racists, oligarchs.

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Meanwhile, and thank God, black people were busy studying decent literature, and history while white people were coasting on their lazy asses. I’m white and I’m allowed to say this and you know what, black people should be allowed to say this as well. I’m so sick of this **** I could puke.

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Imagine no school to keep an eye on kids being potentially abused at home. Exactly what they want.

I have seen this personally. I live in a county that is more prosperous than the one next door and had the opportunity to vist schools in both counties over a 5 year period. I saw the the poorer county struggling to keep school buildings standing, not to mention the lower quality of education

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he also cannot remove a department created by congress so again nice try but no cigar!

article one section 9 the president cannot override congress's purse strings nice try but no cigar!

It seems like the entire administration wants to turn back the clock.

Yes. That is the goal for them

No, we can't let education be pushed into a ditch.

probably the #1 reason the feds get involved in anything: b/c the states do such an awful, incompetent or biased mess of the subject. Education. Healthcare (standards, at least), environmental; air, land and water laws... the list is LONG. B/c states can be REALLY bad at it.

Let’s be clear that all these cowardly beta boys and girls who said that they represent their constituents aren’t. And, for that sports could be dead. School was the pipeline without it - no football, basketball, no nothing. 2nd order consequences.

Absolutely. In NC we are giving $3,300 handouts to the rich for private schools. Money that could be used to teacher raises, supplies and upgrading our buildings. Instead we are giving it to schools that don’t even have to accept kids with disabilities and poor kids can’t afford even with vouchers!

Worse still is the fact that many private schools created in rural Southern states are substandard. Kids ride long distances on old buses to go to old schools with outdated books, underpaid teachers because their parents don't want them to integrate. Fine, but everyone shouldn't have to fund it.

Oh my goodness. I’ve said this my entire adult life and it’s one reason I became a Special Education teacher. It’s so bad here in North Carolina. I taught in Ohio for most of my career then had to move here for my husband’s job. I just kept thinking that this could not be happening.

Good thing Terry Sanford is dead because this'd kill him.

I wonder what they have in store for ADA and IDEA, but I can guess. I’m sure that it’s nothing good for students with disabilities.

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NC private schools "are not regulated and are not accountable to taxpayers," are exempt from performance, testing & teacher licensing while able to get public funding. Public education (i'm sorry, "education," period) in this state is now a joke. But, isn't that the point?

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Let’s be clear: this is exactly what they want.

And now those schools are funded higher, absolutely and per capita.

I hate that this should be obvious

If only someone were elected to power and had a plan to do something about it.

That is exactly the goal of this regime.

Lmao about a decade late

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The Rich just buy the Diplomats Candy Canoe 🛶 crackers

Our blue states will take care of our kids - as we always have. The Confederate states will not. As they always have. Fuck every last one of them.

Every. Last. One.

This is to keep the minorities poor and uneducated and unable to fight for their rights

Te evangelical push of all this has no mercy.

Look at Sounthern Red states. Keep em stupid & racist, we got this

You know something really odd? Even that Hitler fella didn’t tear down schools. Your government is special kind of stupid.

lol he absolutely did tho

MAGA is proof of what inadequate education produces.

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Sorry, but poor states want this to happen, so let them find out the hard way. They are the biggest freeloaders in the country and their elected leaders keep stoking their racism and cynicism by demonizing the states that fund them. They have been circling the drain for 50 years, time to let go.

Yeah, but then we all have to live with the uneducated, poor, hungry criminals that letting them go down will create.

I think that’s happening anyway. 😕

In Russia, the lowest population layer, those that live in remote regions, are extremely poor, uneducated and without any hope for the future. They know no outside world but they believe in Putin so there he can recruit his meat-wave soldiers. Trump wants that kind of people too.

This is what they're referring to when they say "Make America Great Again", they really mean Make America Segregate Again, for starters. (MASA) 👀

The problem is that the neoliberal Democrats and the facist Maga Republicans are both right of center. They prop up their corporate overlords and personal wealth above everything else. They only differ on some social issues. We need a humanitarian/progressive party. An actual Left.

Exactly

Let's be clear: that's why they want it gone.

How GOP leaders used think, talk and behave. When honest, healthy debate was something to be expected and respected. An educated nation is KEY to its prosperity. The answer then. The answer now. Greater good. DoE being actively looted (without OVERSIGHT) by those who can AFFORD private education.

Watched Mini Elon precociously wipe a large hard-won booger dug out of his nose on dictator donny's desk as he leaned in and told Hisroyalassholiness he wasn't the PRESIDENT AND TO GET OUT. Kids know how to get two germaphobes out. Adults know it'll take 2 straitjackets and 4 burly men.

Everything they're trying to get rid of exists for a reason.

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Absolutely not REVOLUTION this ain't no joke

No lies detected

I've met some of these people after Daylight Savings hits, they don't know how to change a clock

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Sorry, but your country turned back the clock, the moment it elected the orange felon

This is what his voters want and what our voters who stayed home don’t care about. We made our choice in November, and I can’t believe I brought a child into a world that would make that choice.

MADA. Make America Dumb Again

Soon enough this cesspool of republican maggot filth will be calling for reinstating slavery! They'll tell the country how good the slaves actually had it as some of these motherfuckers actually believe that shit!

This is all true. Ever since this country turned to home-schooling and school vouchers, the quality of education has been diminished. If left to the states, we would have a very stupid population in at least half the states. The educated population are those who can afford private schooling.

My brother was unable to go to school as he is autistic. Socially he needed the routine and contact with others. But the school system in rural Nevada was not required to educate him. So he stayed home. That was 55 years ago.

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For Democrats and any media that still has a pulse: Ask the Republican Senators and Representatives how this affects education in their state. And keep asking after they give you the boilerplate BS answer!! #Resist

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Sabotage. Sabotage is the word you're looking for here. Anyone wanting to get rid of the Department of Ed is looking to sabotage minority communities.

The clock is going backwards. Do something to stop it.

So how do we stop it?! Please! You are right!!! What now?!!

Trump and his DOGE Bioys want to turn back the clock to even before Plessy V Ferguson.

A reason Jimmy Carter created the Department of Education was to stop the warehousing of Autistic, Mentally Challenged and Handicapped Children. This YouTube Video has 46,000,000 views. It is an Autistic/Asperger's Syndrome boy, helped by Jimmy Carter, meet him youtube.com/watch?v=eGguwYPC32I&t=0s

MAGA is about to discover what these government agencies di for them

No, DOE exists as a payback by Jimmy Carter to teachers ' unions. Be honest and you'll help the causes for which you're advocating. Be dishonest, like this, and people don't take you seriously.

Stop them…. 😡🚫🛑

I graduated high school in 1973 and the Department of Education was created in 1979 so I've never been clear on exactly why this agency came into being. That block of text explains it, thank you!

MAGA voters don't see it. They think that the DOE is some kind of woke or DEI entity that teaches children to be liberal. Do most other Americans know that all the DOE does is fund education, not direct curriculum? NOW can we start impeachment proceedings? Asking for a friend.

That’s what they’ve been told by FOX News for 30 years. Guess they’re gonna FO because plenty of MAGA kids are poor and have disabilities. Unless they’re ok with putting them back in the basement. Who the fuck even knows anymore?

Without the Department of Education, how much dumber can red bible belt states get. Primitive third-world dumb worshipping a 2000 year old book they didn't read over today's historians, scientists, and mathematicians.

I think we can rebuild, but I don't see any way to stop them. Maybe we build it better this time?

Gee, it’ll disproportionately affect black people. It’s almost as if this administration doesn’t like black folks. I’m shocked! Shocked, I tell you! /s

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It's going to affect poor whites in red rural states. Black women are the most educated in the country, and they hold the most college degrees, particularly master's degrees. Trust me, black and brown kids will get educated and will stay educated with or without the department of education

Republicans are racists. It is their goal to white wash America and deport it enslave anyone who is not white. They also wish to take away rights for women. Including white women. I pity any man telling ne what I can and can’t do.

Trump is so into turning back clocks he wants to abolish Daylight Savings Time...

then start blocking all GOP votes until they save the dept of education! DO SOMETHING

Ha! Good luck. The Junta has taken over. You're finished.

You’d better do something quickly - they dismantle agencies at lightening speed - votes? They don’t care about congressional votes or court orders

They voted for it, let them reap their rewards.

It’s not just the South. Rural America nationwide is usually underfunded.

The south won't follow civil rights laws. Never has. Unless there is an E.L.E. in the southeastern US, and it is repopulated with people from somewhere else, the south will never follow civil rights laws. This is a special brand of bigotry down here. People collected body parts after the lynchings.

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You are right. The Trump administration wants to turn the clock back a century. No civil rights protections at all. Read Project 2025: they want to return the money to the states with no strings. After 10 years, no federal funding for education.

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Trump's election shows the need for a Department of Education

School systems here in Alabama are still under desegregation orders. I’d like to say I was surprised to learn that, but it sounds about right 🤦🏻‍♀️

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I agree with the GeneralStrikeUS, but I don’t think the “peacefully” part gets the true message out there. I am a peaceful person, but I’m really fucking angry and those motherfuckers need to feel this from all the others like me. 😡👺😾🤬😤

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Which States would fund programs for special needs kids and which would throw those kids out of school Every State better start coming up with Plan B if Czar Eio keeps getting his way...

People believe this started with Trump; I fought with our public schools about the dumbing down of our curriculum 40 years ago. This has been a slow process. Look at the MAGA crowd sadly and Fox News. Fox News has to go!

improve the doe to prevent the dismantling of civilization. poor and lack of education is why we have trump

THAT is exactly what this administration is trying to do. STATES LAWS is the cry of the Grand Oligarch Party. They are the Dixiecrats that ran away from the Democratic party because they stopped the Jim Crow laws. The laws ADOLF studied to work out his "Jewish" problem.

We already know WHY...

Its happening.

Exactly. To abolish the Department of Education is cruelty. But I think a lot of people don’t realize that because so many lies have been told about it (and other agencies).

Not necessarily wouldn’t, but sometimes just couldn’t, due to lack of resources.

It's already happening and no one did stop it. In fact, they actually voted for it. This is not a rehearsal. You are living through it. The US is no longer the land of the free and home of the brave. It is an unashamedly authoritarian State with NO checks or balances.

This is what Putin did to Russia. 😩😱

We can’t, and we won’t. We fight back. Education is power. Power to the people.

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They are also in charge of educational standards. Like preventing scam universities.

As we al know a handful of them love to do

That has always been the purpose of these sudden cry of DEI. But it is a bit mind bending that we are 2025 with all the technologies and advancements made in the world there are still some people who don’t want the less privileged to get an education. I keep asking myself what is wrong with them?

That!

Turning back the clock is what MAGA - and the right in general - are all about.

They're abolishing it so they can extort the states, just like they did with California fire relief.

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Don't people wonder why there has not been a MILITARY coup yet? There r so so many things going on right now in America, that r ALL ILLEGAL? Cause you have a CONVICTED person as president, which should be completely IMPOSSIBLE!Wonder why he can keep ruling? Wonder why all the fail saves FAIL! The 1%

The "people"? Where is red side to counter demonstrate against the demonstrations now? Where is the voice of the people around you? The town hall meetings? Again where is RED? either inside or outside? Where r the masses of people that voted for him? America is Fooled bigtime, even now!

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Trump and MAGAs want to take us back to the 19th century: primitive healthcare, no social safety nets, no Fed to protect us from “panics,” colonialism, no rights for women, child labor, etc. What’s not to like?

It just makes the red States even dumber than they are now. Their economies will fall behind. Just make sure we pass the law no blue state money flows into the ignorant areas.

Society, and the Rule of Law appears to be broken in the US.

Exactly what the likes of Rufo want and I bet he is one of the biggest pushers of this in the admin.

Your clock has been turning back for some time. The orange don is just a representative of that.

Just in time, segregation is now legal by executive order.

Try the Canadian solution. Funding to poorer states (provinces/territories in Canada), conditional on spending it on education. So the states only get the funds if they spend it right. In Canada, it ensures quality education everywhere.

The point is they’re not going to give ANYONE any funding…

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you mean the same 'South' that voted to vote a racist sociopathic narcissist in as president? In a democracy you deserve who you voted in. Perhaps as they feel the pain of their ill thought out decision they will wise up and see the error of their ways. Probably not though they'll just blame Biden.

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EXACTLY !!! SHE IS SO RIGHT!!’

And don't forget all that lovely real estate Felon47 would like to sell off just to make a buck!

School budgets by zip code is segregation.

Let’s put the “UNITED” back in the United States of America, and throw out of office the Nazis who are trying to overthrow our govt. Make some good noise. Join protests local and national. We are Americans, not Nazis… they lost in WWII #LetsSaveAmerica

Add to that they want the taxpayer to pay for private schools.

Private religious schools-a clear violation of the 1st Amendment!

The U.S. ranks 36th in illiteracy with over 46 million adults that are illiterate. This will increase that rate and make us less competitive in the long run.

“We can’t let that happen”. Oh it’s happening.

That’s what the current regime is all about. Turning back the clock.

Exactly. He wants the states to have control. No thank you.

Amen

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For all those people who are excited that it will go to the states because the school systems suck now, just wait until they have no funding for all the actual things they need. And especially for any special education, grants, scholarships or anything other than what they are told they can have. 🤬

There is a cottage industry of lawyers, who specialize in protecting those students with disabilities. It is my hope that they gather together to fight against maga, in favor of their clients.

True It reminds me of regulations… Giant companies have proven time & time again they can’t be trusted to do the right thing for humans so we have to regulate them. States have shown us they can’t handle doing the right thing so that privilege was taken away. Our society has been better for it.

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Plus, the same in the land that time forgot. Yewtaw! Where they hate all that isn't momo.

Make America Great, like when kids died of rickets.

Be like Tony Evers.

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It's older then 40 years. Business people tried a coup back in the 30s when FDR was elected

Yes, it's 54 years old. Eventually all of them will fall. All the republican senators and republican congressmen, all need to be charged with attempting, a coup and treason. Congress should be charged right now for failing to do their congressional duties in stopping the madness.

Ties all the bad actors together who are destroying our country!

NARRATOR: They let it happen.

Absofukinlutely! 💙

How the fuck are we going to find foster families? Most foster kids are special needs & require a 504/iep. Are foster parents supposed to homeschool?! Also, foster kids rely on Medicaid/social security. This administration is cutting every program to help these kids while they're in govt custody.

When people aren’t educated they can’t find good work, and often can’t make ends meet. Some turn to crime to “make” it, but then republicans complain about the crime rate, but don’t want to understand what leads people to crime or fix it. They just want to create a country with cheap prison labor.

It has already happened and the GOP applauded! 😡😡😡

They want to go back to segregated schools by way of private schools for white Christians only.

The patriarchy has become overrun by mediocre white men who lack the ability and nuance to hide their misogyny and racism

Of course

exactly

Yeah…that would be mostly red states I’m guessing.

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That’s why we fought Bush 1 plan for block grants to the states for disabled students. Living in Indiana we knew the state couldn’t be trusted to actually support the disabled. Hell, i couldn’t trust the local schools and had to fight for services.

"We have to vote for them to abolish the department of education so he doesn't do worse things instead". -Chuck Schumer, lord of appeasement

With all due respect @\RepSylviaGarcia; that is their intent. Donald "loves the uneducated" because he feels superior to them and believes they are more easily manipulation/bought cheap. Knowing that should make a difference in your messaging.

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When they say make America great again, this is what they mean.

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Providing equitable educations is a challenge throughout the world, the rich will always use their wealth to maintain their advantage

They don’t want to fund it so they make sure students scores show them failing so they don’t have to fund it

It’s like we have to have unions to protect workers. We need a middleman to watch over education because states don’t really care about their people. Maybe Minnesota does but Indiana just wants our kids to go to for profit charter schools.

I'm starting to believe these people missed the point of "To Kill A Mockingbird," or simply have not read it.

Right on

This is exactly why the federal government had to step up to help every child to be able to get an education. Republicans fear people who are educated, and that's why they denigrate higher education except for the wealthy .

GOP led states shooting themselves in the foot

When, duh, they want to turn the clock back. They want a time when women, people of color were submissive, LGBTQ people were arrested, Jews were second class, workers had no say in how much they earned or what conditions they worked under, and if poor people couldn't work, they just died.

Which are all the groups that need it most …

That’s exactly the plan to turn back the clock on black peoples rights

I can attest to this first hand having lived in rural Mississippi back in the 1980s. Now the entire region is drying up economically for both whites and blacks.

Trump will take care of them. He loves the uneducated.

Hello, y'all already let it HAPPEN!

This isn't a bug, it's a feature. This is exactly what they mean by making America "great" again

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Turning education over to these clown show states will destroy what is left of sanity in Red States1

Welcome back to the 40s

The red states, his base have the poorest population, schools, education, national scores always a the bottom are going to get table scraps after the main funds go to wealthy private Christian schools. If you can’t afford to feed your kids breakfast, depending on school lunches, that’s going too.

So you live in Georgia huh?

What’s your point about my post?

That’s what happens in every city & county in Georgia.

Wasn’t sure why you asked me if I lived there. I didn’t mention that state, I was talking about most southern red states.

The rest of the world sees the Southern states for what they are. Corrupt, racist, uneducated, and stick on trump supporters. They started a civil war, and lost FFS.They should secede again and nobody would miss them, apart from the cartels!

Hmmmmmm nope never been there, have you?

I really do feel bad for them. We’re getting what they paid for the life for them is gonna get so bad. And no one who fed them. The bullshit is gonna give one tiny shit about them. They got what they want. They don’t need them anymore let them suffer is their motto

not it starts to come home to bear. Sadly, they’re going to see what their vote got them. They never thought it would hurt them. They thought it would make them better. It would hurt other people and WTF other people like punching yourself in the face that it was.

It's terrible; MA has had free school lunch and breakfast for years. It's nice that we're ranked as the best public schools in the country, but it means nothing if kids are going to start getting ripped off in other states when public schools are defunded by vouchers for private religious schools.

Right. Hello. To all the good people who don’t vaccinate your autistic kids. That means your kids too. Got Home school? And Got Milk. The raw kind. I love it when the roller coaster goes backwards. Why not Social advancement too?