Republicans say education department should go

Play with education and the country is finished. This is illiteracy promotion, backwardness....

they say they would gut the department...but we know they won't if elected. They'll do exactly what the shadow government tells them to do. Just like Bush and Obama.

This is hardly a news. Perry and his gang (which is almost the whole GOP) have already declared their resolution to make the Fed irrelevant once they are in power.

A FED driven education department is a disater waiting to happen. What exactly has a FED driven anything ever benefitted? Now the eduactional disateds will just be maginified on a federal level. Liberal educational experiments like adopting the notion that you can't tell little johnny that 2+2 does not equal 5 is wrong because it might make him hate learning is an example of the "experiments" they are going to try
Bad idea.

You all can haz cheezeburgerz

Eliminate the Dept of Education: That way we can have more undereducated workers who can't find jobs; a higher crime rate; be less competitive in the world which will lead to more jobs being shipped overseas so again fewer jobs here; a weaker economy so more businesses will fail and more homes go into foreclosure. And with vouchers more public schools will be strapped for cash so even more kids will receive a poor education, so fewer job prospects again. Yes sir, a great plan these candidates have!

Most of the posters here have little idea what the Dept. of Education does. It has nothing to do with unions, and it does little to fund schools. The federal government is responsible for about 8.5% of school funding, and the US is ranked 37th in the amount is spends on schools based on GDP. The issue of school quality and funding is already local issue.

Please do not give control of education to the state. Where I live the schools are under federal oversight due to poor management and low test scores. If they get control again are children will suffer even more than now. I should not have to consider moving to another state, or to the county for my child to get a decent education and services.

The politicians (Reps or Dems) could easily repair the Education department such as by upgrading standardized textbooks utilizing customized Barrons soft-cover textbooks for all grades across the USA and standarized tests based on them. There are plenty of USA PHDs from top tier USA universities that could better the USA curriculum. With the new, modern learning materials on the general market, the students should be doing better not worse.

After 47 years of bilingual education in California the measure of success is "for english press one". So again why the Dept of Education unless it is to present one groups agenda.

Well, "HOW EDUCATED or UNEDUCATED/STUPID do YOU WANT YOUR CHILDREN TO BE"???? "GOD BLESS AMERICA"!!!

For the idiot Tea baggers who hate all taxes, Big gov., and Socialism.
Stop taking Social Security checks
Stop taking medicaid/medicare
Do not send you kids to publicly funded school
Get off the highways and bridges
Dont cry when the rich dodge even more taxes since you got rid of the IRS
By all means drink water that is not protected by the EPA so it can be shut down
Please.. go work for companies with no safety standards so we can disband OSHA
Take medications with no FDA safety checks.. we cant afford the FDA
Enjoy your lower wages and benefits from dismantling unions
Watch as your house burns to avoid utilizing fire fighters service on the tax payers dime
When your getting robbed dont call a cop.. his salary is paid by taxes.
The point here is: We have always had a certain measure of socialism.. that word amongst many others is just a way the right tricks weak minded fools into thinking that Obamas policies are unamerican so they can change public perception and get their boy back in power, when in fact the truth is taxes have gone DOWN for 95% of America under Obama, and his policies though while they have created many jobs as yet have actually saved many jobs from being lost. Like it or not he is not the monster the right tries to portray him as. This is not kiss ing his butt.. this is objective facts that can be verified.. if you dare to look it up.. go ahead.. I dare you!

The TEN poorest and least educated states in the US are in the SE and are GOP controlled. If you live in that area and are middle class or lower, your GOP brethren are given you a HOSING while you live in POVERTY. It is hard to believe that the people in the SE keep asking for more GOP HOSINGS. Education is something that ALL the Southern states lack. Enjoy it boys and girls of the SE, at least you got your guns, bibles and pickem up trucks.

READ AND LEARN:
1. 35 Cents of every tax dollar collected for the Dept. of Ed goes to pays its salaries and operating costs. That's a 35% OVERHEAD before ANYTHING ELSE GETS DONE.
2. DE has a 24.7 BILLION $ Operating Budget
3. DE has a 69.4 BILLION $ DISCRETIONARY Budget
4. For every 14 CENTS of money the DE sends back to the States, there is 16 Cents of 'conditions' attached that the states must pay for.
5. The greatest level of educational attainment in the US was during the 50's and 60's BEFORE THE DE was made a Cabinet level office; the educational excellence was achieved by the STATES, NOT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
WE DO NOT NEED THE FINANCIAL DRAIN OF THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION.
LET THE GOVERNMENT KNOW WE WANT THE DE DISMANTLED.
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The fact is that Parents and schools are failing our children. Kids today have no respect for learning. The issue here may not be about what the Dept of Education does as a whole, but about what the Department of Education dictates down to the State Level. All of the Candidates believe the States should have more to say about their Schools. In all cases the system is broke, but not all schools are broke. Successful schools should be modeled after. The strengths and aptitudes of the Teachers at those schools should be emmulated and cirriculum copied. Do we need a Federal Dept of Education to do that? I don't think so. Everything seems too big to fail in todays World. I say shut it down, and rebuild it if needed. Sometimes things are so structurally flawed that they must be taken down to the foundation before they can be fixed.

It's about time. No place for the federal government in local education policies.

"Small government" is an Orwellian newspeak word for ba$$ackwardness.

Former Speaker Newt Gingrich says he would roll back much of the department's regulation and would introduce grants to help parents pay for the schools of their choice............This dude is one of the founding Architects of the Department of Education from back in the Reagan presidency..........now he want`s to leech off of that Charter School Gravy Train funding

Keep em dumb so they can vote against their own best interests.

The same Department of Education whom administers Pell grants so one can go to college. Same grants the House is trying to kill. Seriously I do not think any GOP candidate really knows what any one department actually does. I look Gingrich's statement "would roll back much of the department's regulation and would introduce grants to help parents pay for the schools of their choice." Grants imply no payback ya Jacka$$. So what is the Pell Grant again. He again they advocate government welfare ISO of private companies.

Now the Dept of Education does not break out their labor costs in their budget history but it is mandatory s assume its part of mandatory spending vice discretionary as you are required to pay for labor. About only 8% of the Dept's spending is mandatory the rest is discretionary. Labor does not make up all the mandatory spending by the Department of Education.

Lets talk Medicare where they used about 8% of their total dollars for Administrative Costs of the Program. THIS IS A DEAL..go find out how much insurance companies spend on those same costs 25-30% is typical. Be even better if Congress would stop stealing from this protected fund.

So for the moron IMPEACHMENT OBAMA who wrote two fallacies in that the Department of Labor collects money(I have never sent them a check) and they pay 35% iof their appropriation from Congress on their own employees. MORE LIES.