BREAKING: Trump Announces Plan To Gut Education, Eliminate 490,000 Teacher Jobs (DETAILS)

[Matthew28]

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Source: americanprogressaction

BREAKING: Trump Announces Plan To Gut Education, Eliminate 490,000 Teacher Jobs (DETAILS)
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According to the think tank, this would be the actual results of demolishing the Department of Education:

‘8 million students every year would lose Pell grants
490,000 or more teacher positions could be eliminated $1.3 trillion in student loans would be at risk
9 million low-income students would lose $15 billion of Title I funding annually
5 million children and students with disabilities would lose $12.7 billion used every year to ensure that they receive a quality education
750,000 or more students from military families, Native American students, students living in U.S. territories, and students living on federal property or Native American lands would lose $1.1 billion per year for their school
4,000 or more rural school districts would lose more than $175 million used annually to help improve the quality of teaching and learning in many hard-to-staff schools
$700 million used by states to support the 5 million English language learners currently in public schools—representing close to 10 percent of all students—would be cut.’

Other factors that would go by the wayside are the federal guarantees of equality in “race, income, language, and disability” in public education. A recent CBO [Congressional Budget Office] report indicated:
http://thehill.com/regulation/294318-report-trumps-education-plan-would-cut-490k-teacher-jobs

For all you that think it isn't reliable.
https://www.americanprogressaction.org/issues/education/news/2016/09/01/162258/trumps-plan-to-eliminate-the-department-of-education-is-yet-another-in-a-list-of-terrible-ideas/

The report

Read more: https://www.americanprogressaction.org/issues/education/news/2016/09/01/162258/trumps-plan-to-eliminate-the-department-of-education-is-yet-another-in-a-list-of-terrible-ideas/

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MAKE AMERICA STUPID AGAIN!

For all you that think it isn't reliable.
https://www.americanprogressaction.org/issues/education/news/2016/09/01/162258/trumps-plan-to-eliminate-the-department-of-education-is-yet-another-in-a-list-of-terrible-ideas/

The report

[Matthew28]

1. /

http://thehill.com/regulation/294318-report-trumps-education-plan-would-cut-490k-teacher-jobs
http://proudemocrat.com/breaking-trump-announces-plan-to-gut-education-eliminate-490000-teacher-jobs-details/

[PSPS]

2. This opinion piece / click bait doesn't belong in LBN.

[chillfactor]

5. but i could see t-rump doing

everything the article says. it is the lying republican way....make America stupid so republicans can maneuver the dumb.

[Matthew28]

10. It is also in thehill link that I posted below it

No wonder the republicans are advancing their idiocy as everything that spells out the reality is somehow click bait. lol

[dflprincess]

3. He loves the poorly educated

and wants there to be more of them.

[forest444]

4. Typical fascist drivel.

Anywhere you go in the world, they always have it in for teachers and academics.

[Aristus]

6. We're already stupid.

The point is not to make it worse...

[vlyons]

7. Eliminating DoEd has always been a top priority of the GOP

All that money could be diverted to:

- more tax cuts for the 1%
- the DoD war machine
- state govs to handout sweetheart deals to their private school cronies and campaign contributors

[YOHABLO]

8. No, what we need to rid ourselves of are Corporate and MIC lobbyists

Like that's going to happen. Money Money Money Money Money .. we're doomed

[geomon666]

9. This isn't anything new

Anything that could even be perceived as having or delivering government oversight is to be eliminated and privatized.

[pangaia]

11. Tough. Just pull yourself up by your bootstraps.

Which, if you think about it for a second, is physically impossible.

[retrowire]

14. Seriously

I've always thought deeply about that phrase and wondered if I were just saying it wrong. But nope. It's a dumbass phrase.

[pangaia]

24. Hey Retro.. nice to hear from ya....

[retrowire]

25. Hey there! :)

I'm still around. Bouncing all over the place. Keeping myself busy.

[pangaia]

28. Goid th o hear

Typos 😄😃

[Thinkingabout]

12. He must have gained his knowledge from Trump university.

[Matthew28]

13. /

For all you that think it isn't reliable.
https://www.americanprogressaction.org/issues/education/news/2016/09/01/162258/trumps-plan-to-eliminate-the-department-of-education-is-yet-another-in-a-list-of-terrible-ideas/

The report

[Matthew28]

16. Many people within the base

Really want to abolish most of our government. If we don't take it seriously, we may find ourselfs a very poor and backwards nation.

[oberliner]

17. This is not a real news site

He has announced no such plan.

[Matthew28]

18. This is

https://www.americanprogressaction.org/issues/education/news/2016/09/01/162258/trumps-plan-to-eliminate-the-department-of-education-is-yet-another-in-a-list-of-terrible-ideas/

[oberliner]

19. No it's not

It's the Center for American Progress Action Fund site.

They are warning people about what might happen if the Department of Education was cut.

Trump does not actually have any plan or position on this.

His website does not even have a section on education.

Edit to add: A news site for LBN is like Reuters or AP.

[Matthew28]

21. I watched his debates earlier this year when he said he wanted to abolish the department

[oberliner]

23. Ok, but the headline says he has a plan to eliminate 490.000 jobs

Wouldn't you agree that the headline and site are a bit dodgy?

[PSPS]

29. DU's LBN policy has either taken the day off or is just a joke now.

[YOHABLO]

20. Let's gut all charter school funding. No tax payer dollars for charter schools. Screw that.

[citizen blues]

26. This is also going to devastate the American tech industry,

along with any medical, engineering, or other science-based industry. Due to the astronomical costs of higher degrees, already over half of our STEM major PhD's go to international students who return to their countries with them. Companies like Texas Instruments already have workforce shortages in those areas.

BTW, the fact that these bright young professionals aren't allowed to stay and get jobs in the U.S. even when they want to is the other side of our very broken immigration system.

[vkkv]

27. Duh, Um....

[ErikJ]

30. The white rural Trump stronghold voters should know:

"4,000 or more rural school districts would lose more than $175 million used annually to help improve the quality of teaching and learning in many hard-to-staff schools"

[uppityperson]

31. Locking as does not meet LBN SOP and does not meet the 12 hour publication LBN rule.

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