“This moment demands a sense of urgency,” U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona said in a call with reporters. “This moment demands the same courageous commitment to equal opportunity and justice we saw from leaders at the height of the civil rights movement.”
Then show some courage, and respond with some urgency. You want to fix black and hispanic educational achievement (and improve it for whites and asians)? 4 simple steps to do so.
Bust up any teacher's union which covers more than one district and arrest every single teacher's union official who argued for shutting down schools during covid on charges of child abuse.
National school choice where the money follows the student.
Cut all federal funding to schools where more than a set percentage (I'd say 20% as a starting point) is spent on things beyond teacher salaries and building upkeep and maintenance.
Forbid schools from graduating students who do not score as proficient on reading, math and science national standardized tests to be given at the end of elementary school, middle school and high school.
Won't fix every problem, but will drastically improve the system within a couple years. Do you have the courage to do that?
The fed has no constitutional authority to have a department of education. Federal funding to states is just a method of extortion and manipulation - they take our money, use it to bribe states to follow along with faggot bullshit implemented by unelected bureaucrats in a federal agency, and then use the existence of the federal agency as an excuse to keep taking more money.
Any federal agency whose job is to take money from a state just to send it back conditional upon obedience is an unconstitutional agency that subverts the intended mechanisms of the government.
Then show some courage, and respond with some urgency. You want to fix black and hispanic educational achievement (and improve it for whites and asians)? 4 simple steps to do so.
Bust up any teacher's union which covers more than one district and arrest every single teacher's union official who argued for shutting down schools during covid on charges of child abuse.
National school choice where the money follows the student.
Cut all federal funding to schools where more than a set percentage (I'd say 20% as a starting point) is spent on things beyond teacher salaries and building upkeep and maintenance.
Forbid schools from graduating students who do not score as proficient on reading, math and science national standardized tests to be given at the end of elementary school, middle school and high school.
Won't fix every problem, but will drastically improve the system within a couple years. Do you have the courage to do that?
Ftfy
The fed has no constitutional authority to have a department of education. Federal funding to states is just a method of extortion and manipulation - they take our money, use it to bribe states to follow along with faggot bullshit implemented by unelected bureaucrats in a federal agency, and then use the existence of the federal agency as an excuse to keep taking more money.
Any federal agency whose job is to take money from a state just to send it back conditional upon obedience is an unconstitutional agency that subverts the intended mechanisms of the government.