President Donald Trump’s administration plans to announce a proposal to merge the Department of Education and the Department of Labor as soon as Thursday, Politico and Education Week were first to report Wednesday.
The effort has been steamrolled by Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney and is part of an expansive effort to reorganize the government and eliminate agencies the Trump administration deems unnecessary, according to Politico.
The new agency could be called the Department of Education and the Workforce, if approved, Education Week reported.
The move would have to be approved by Congress, which may prove difficult, as Politico notes, because previous efforts to cut the Education Department have been unfruitful.
Read the full Education Week report here.
Why the hell not? Public education (as long as it lasts) is only for training wage slaves, anyway.
Because getting educated is hard work!
The new agency could be called the Department of Education and the Workforce
He has this thing about the word “force”, Workforce, Space Force, forcing his nonsense on us . . . Oh to have a president once again with a vocabulary above 3rd grade.
Not a surprise…Trump is opposed to both public education and unions.
At this point they’re actively opposed to education in general, because they see it as supportive of liberal views. And as a practical matter, our decentralized education system means you can get a world-class education or a very substandard one depending on where you live. Folding Education into another department would further hamstring our already limited efforts to bring about more equitable educational outcomes for everyone. Rich get richer, poor get worse and worse educated children. #MAGA