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BumRushDaShow

(158,588 posts) Tue Aug 12, 2025, 05:16 AM Aug 12

Linda McMahon defends disbanding the Department of Education on national tour

Source: CBS News

August 11, 2025 / 5:20 PM EDT

Education Secretary Linda McMahon is kicking off a nationwide tour focused on promoting the administration's goal of dismantling the Department of Education, which has been met with congressional and legal challenges. The "Returning Education to the States Tour" is set to take McMahon on a tour of all 50 states, starting in Louisiana, where she met with leadership and educators to discuss strategies for improving education. She told "CBS Mornings Plus" that this approach is meant to focus on highlighting resources states can provide to students, in lieu of those traditionally provided by the Department of Education.

"I think as we make this tour and as I see what best practices are and we provide these toolkits, we develop them and then can deliver them to the states and say these are things that you can choose from. These are things that have been successful in other states. It's not a mandate," McMahon said. "I think every school system needs to work within its own community to decide what curriculum works best there. What are the ways that their students can learn? And that's why it's imperative that education be returned to the states because when states are creative and innovative, you will see the kind of progress that you've seen here in Louisiana."

President Trump issued an executive order to begin dismantling the department in March, arguing that education policy and funding should be left to the states. McMahon announced cuts of roughly half its workforce the same month. The downsizing has led to legal challenges, but the Supreme Court allowed the cuts to continue in July.

In 2024, the department accounted for less than 4% of the federal budget. Its responsibilities include overseeing federal student loan programs, distributing grants for low-income schools and enforcing non-discrimination policies in schools. It does not set curriculum. Completely abolishing the department would require congressional approval, an unlikely proposition given Democrats' general opposition to eliminating it altogether.

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/linda-mcmahon-department-of-education-national-tour/

She should get the Betsy DeVos treatment.

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Linda McMahon defends disbanding the Department of Education on national tour (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Aug 12 OP

Trump will destroy everything that makes America great. Irish_Dem Aug 12 #1

Just say it out loud already. "We want Jim crow schools run by states JT45242 Aug 12 #2

**Translation Matrix Engaged** OldBaldy1701E Aug 12 #3

We ran her and her husband out of CT. She is vile. CTyankee Aug 12 #4

bully 45 won't just hurt us but insult us, too rickyhall Aug 12 #5

Irish_Dem

(73,298 posts)

1. Trump will destroy everything that makes America great.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Tue Aug 12, 2025, 05:21 AM

Aug 12

JT45242

(3,578 posts)

2. Just say it out loud already. "We want Jim crow schools run by states

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Tue Aug 12, 2025, 06:08 AM

Aug 12

We want to steal money from black and brown communities and give it to rich white kids to go to hate filled schools masquerading as Christians.

State control is why brown v board of education was needed.

But wrestling lady knows best.

OldBaldy1701E

(8,757 posts)

3. **Translation Matrix Engaged**

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Tue Aug 12, 2025, 08:42 AM

Aug 12

She told "CBS Mornings Plus" that this approach is meant to focus on highlighting resources states can provide to students, in lieu of those traditionally provided by the Department of Education.

TRANSLATION: "The evangelical rethug states hate it when they are forced to stop their bigotry and ignorance, so we want to remove any kind of federal oversight so that they can program their children without interruption."

And that's why it's imperative that education be returned to the states because when states are creative and innovative, you will see the kind of progress that you've seen here in Louisiana."

TRANSLATION: "You guys ranked dead last in education, and we here at the regime love that!"

In her tour, the secretary is highlighting Louisiana because it is the only state in the country that has shown an improvement in elementary literacy since before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a review of fourth graders' standardized testing scores by The Nation's Report Card.

TRANSLATION: "When one is at the bottom, the only way to go is up. Since that has happened on a very tiny scale, we plan to use it as the sole reason for our position."

"I think that is the least worry that anyone should have because Congress appropriates that money and it flows through whichever agency will be distributing it. So that money flowed from 1965 before there was a Department of Education, and it will continue to flow,' McMahon said.

TRANSLATION: "That's next, because who cares about faulty humans?"

It's unclear which agency would become responsible for distributing special education grants if the Department of Education is disbanded. Currently, the department provides special education grants that supplement state funding for the more than 7.5 million students with disabilities.

TRANSLATION: "None of them will! We ned that for our next as cut!"

**END TRANSLATION MATRIX**