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Chronicle of Higher Education
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In signing an order to close Department of Education, President Trump called for returning authority over education to state and local officials, while punishing colleges for allegedly failing to combat antisemitism and allowing transgender athletes to compete. www.chronicle.com/article/afte...

chronicle.comAfter Cutting Half Its Staff, Trump Signs an Order Directing the Education Department to CloseBut Thursday’s order also calls for continuing most of the department’s core functions, like financial aid and civil-rights enforcement. Congress would have to vote on an actual shutdown.

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Conspiranon
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In the evangelical school I came to be familiar with the evangelical view of education — or, to be more precise, their contempt for education. #BookBans bsky.app/profile/cons...

Conspiranon@conspiranon.bsky.social

The goal of these evangelical schools was not a “better form of education” but denial of education. It was meant to prevent students from learning any facts contrary to the extremist beliefs of the evangelical Right. conspiranon.blogspot.com/2025/02/when...