Bummer: Trump To Shift Student Loans And Special Education From Education Department

Obviously, this makes Democrats very upset because they will no longer be able to skim money off to send to the teacher’s unions and other leftist groups

Trump says the Education Department will shed oversight of student loans and special education

President Donald Trump on Friday began sketching a roadmap for dismantling the Education Department, with other agencies taking over responsibility for federal student loans and programs serving students with disabilities.

The executive order Trump signed Thursday to do away with the department did not offer a timeline or instructions, but his administration appears poised to carve away all but the department’s most vital operations.

The Republican president said during a White House event that student loans will be handled by the Small Business Administration, and “it will be serviced much better than it has in the past.” He also said programs involving students with disabilities would be shifted to the Department of Health and Human Services.

The decisions drew blowback from advocacy groups that fear disruptions will be inevitable. The Small Business Association announced Friday it will cut its staff by 43%, raising questions about its ability to take on the Education Department’s $1.6 trillion loan portfolio.

Student loans were run through other federal agencies prior to the creation of the Department Of Education (ED, not DOE). You had them through the National Defense Education Act of 1958, backed by Treasury. The the Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) program established in 1965. The the Student Loan Marketing Association (Sallie Mae), formed in 1973. It wasn’t till 1979, with the creation of the ED, that they started rolling some through the ED. And then with all sorts of shenanigans by Obama and the Democrat controlled Congress they drastically increased it all, causing student loan dept to skyrocket, especially as colleges started drastically increasing the cost of tuition, since Los Federales were totally backing it all, including private loans.

And for special education, things worked a whole hell of a lot better behind when states and school districts were in charge, since they knew their students, rather than far away bureaucrats in D.C.

Trump’s executive order said the student loan portfolio is too big for the Education Department to manage. After the SBA cuts, however, it will be left with fewer than 4,000 employees — about the size of the Education Department before it was cut in half by the Trump administration.

Except, there are around 50,000 non-direct employees helping out the ED employees, which are around 4,500 now.

Education Secretary Linda McMahon said she is preparing to relocate the department’s core operations to other agencies and roll back federal regulations. In an opinion piece published Friday by Fox News Channel, she said abolishing the department “will not happen tomorrow,” but she plans to pave the way.

“We will systematically unwind unnecessary regulations and prepare to reassign the department’s other functions to the states or other agencies,” McMahon wrote.

Which is always the way it was supposed to be. The ED is supposed to be a helper, not the people in charge of everything, who dictate everything. Look at FEMA: they were meant to be coordinators and helpers for states, counties, and cities. They were not meant to be In Charge of every disaster. They were meant to help with things like supplementing state emergency management offices, especially when there are tons of helpers coming from out of state. Well, the ED was meant to be a helper, not dictate things like that schools must allow the gender confused in women’s sports and safe spaces. What schools are allowed to serve for breakfast and lunch.

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