The closer we get to the U.S. Department of Education being thrown atop the trash heap of history, the closer teachers’ union mouthpiece Randi Weingarten gets to, as the Brits might say, losing her nut once and for all. If she ever had one, of course.
Weingarten is in serious free fall with the pending action by President Trump to dismantle the Education Department, which only ever existed as an expensive thank you from Jimmy Carter to the teachers’ unions for their help in getting him elected, and return the vast majority of its responsibilities, decision-making and budgets back to the states and local authorities. The president is expected to sign an executive order (EO) on Thursday afternoon, followed by a symposium with educators and governors to discuss the changes coming to public education.
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None of us knows the exact details of what the dismantling will look like, but that isn’t stopping Weingarten from going on CNN and spewing a host of lies meant to scare viewers over the pending actions. Here she is in all her glory:
Got that? She claims most of the nation’s public school students are disabled, poor or rural, which is absurd on its face. Randi, a supposed educator herself, doesn’t seem good with numbers, so let’s take a look at some data from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), which closely tracks these kinds of things.
According to the NCES, about 15 percent of the public school population receives special education services, while 19 percent of students are from rural communities. There’s likely a decent amount of crossover between these two populations, so we can conclude that Randi’s use of “most” is a gross exaggeration.
As for the “poor” students, that is determined by the number of pupils receiving free or reduced-price lunches at school. That number is pretty high, hovering around 50 percent of all students, but here’s what Randi doesn’t tell you: the lunch program is funded through the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which is now in the capable hands of Brooke Rollins. The kids are not going to starve.
The numbers don’t matter at all, of course, because the funding isn’t going to be stripped away from any of these students, but the already-dwindling power of Randi Weingarten and the teachers’ unions—who kept our kids out of school during COVID and pushed radical ideologies instead of teaching the basics—will certainly be greatly diminished.
Here’s a number for Randi Weingarten and the unions: Your stranglehold on the public eduction system at the federal level will be reduced by 100 percent.
This is all just further proof that the left thought they controlled everything, from your kids’ minds to the power corridors of DC, and they were mostly right. Things are changing rapidly and beautifully as the president and DOGE recalibrate the federal government, and the left can only sit on the sidelines and seethe while they watch it all happen.
On a final note, as a mom whose autistic son was not so long ago a part of the 15 percent of students receiving special education services, I can attest to the fact that removing the feds from the process of getting your child educated will only be a blessing to parents stuck in that never-ending loop. This move by the Trump administration is addition by subtraction for many, many American families.
Get Rid of the department of education they are Teaching our Children to be Ignorant