Good news!
Jan Resseger reports some surprisingly good news: the Senate Appropriations Committee passed an education budget that restored Trump’s cuts to education and disregarded his plan to eliminate the U.S. Department of Education.
Jan sees their action as evidence that public protest works and that the public does not want to abandon federal funding of schools. Jan also cautions that education may yet be imperiled by Russell Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget, and Secretary of Education Linda McMahon. Vought was overall writer and editor of “Project 2025” and McMahon is a dedicated ideologue.
Nonetheless, it’s heartening to know that some Republicans were willing to stand up to Trump and Reject one of his worst ideas.
She begins:
On July 31st, K-12 Dive’s Kara Arundel reported some very good news: “The Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday approved a bipartisan spending bill for fiscal year 2026 (FY 26) that would prevent the executive branch from removing Title I and special education programs to agencies outside the U.S. Department of Education. The legislation also rejects several other funding reforms proposed by the Trump administration… In total, the Senate Appropriations Committee recommends funding the Education Department in FY 26 at $79 billion…. That’s $12.3 billion more than President Donald Trump’s proposal of $66.7 billion. In the current fiscal year, the Education Department is funded at $78.7 billion.”
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“Nonetheless, it’s heartening to know that some Republicans were willing to stand up to Trump and Reject one of his worst ideas.”
May it last. Will they pay a price come 2026? Aren’t there other devious ways – of course there are – for the Project 2025 adherents and acolytes to achieve their ends – you betcha.
Eternal vigilance has become the byword for the current age, and beyond.
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Whenever Trump does not get what he wants, the threats follow.
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Plenty of republicans have children in public schools and understand their important value to their community, state and nation. Unfortunately, the extremist members of the GOP are dictating the direction of their party.
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That is good news. But the department will be short staffed after the layoff of 1400 employees. Not an insignificant number considering they’ve been operating with about 4400 up until now.
There’s a rush of power that comes from controlling our environment. Whether that control is a result of creating or destroying; that rush is there.
It’s so much easier and faster to get that rush from destroying something. Especially when someone is weak in the area of creativity. But that feeling of power and satisfaction is as short lived as the process. So the person looks for something new to wipe out.
Who could I possibly be talking about, here…? He could’ve easily been one of my Special Ed students.
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