Would you accept this trade?

[bluestateguy]

Full repeal of NCLB and repeal of Race to the Top in exchange for abolition of the federal Department of Education.

Just a point of clarification, this would NOT mean abolishing federal funding for education.

[Smarmie Doofus]

1. From my POV, it wouldn't make a lot of difference.

What's happening now is big $$$$ moving to control public schools. ( i.e via privatization or de facto privatization). They're working now on the fed level 'cause that's where they have to work to achieve what they want to achieve.

But they can just as easily $$$$ influence the individual states, seems to me.

[LWolf]

2. How would the feds fund anything without the DOE?

Abolishing the DOE was Ronald Reagan's goal.

I support putting an educator at the head of the DOE, both at the federal level and at the top of every state.

[iemitsu]

3. what we need is a department of education

that is staffed by professional educators and committed to seeing that all public, K-12 schools were funded equitably and that guaranteed that those prepared for higher education were not priced out of that opportunity (free universities).
it is not the department of educations job to sponsor divisive, corporate driven reforms aimed at re-segregating the school population and providing un-equal educational opportunities for our nation's students.

[SheilaT]

4. We need to start out by talking

to the teachers who actually are in the classrooms.