The Education Department plans to announce Tuesday that it will move multiple parts of the agency to other federal departments, an unprecedented and unilateral effort to dismantle an agency created by Congress to ensure all Americans have equal access to educational opportunity and better coordinate federal programs.

The move was described by three people informed of the plan ahead of the announcement. Two of these people said six offices within the department would be shifted elsewhere; the third person said it was at least two.

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    • village604@adultswim.fanEnglish
      20·
      6 days ago

      I had a few of those. I was the reason one of them banned laptops in her class after my semester because I fact checked her so much. She would say shit like, “the CDC says that condoms are 100% ineffective.”

      Luckily she couldn’t ban my laptop because it was a reasonable accommodation for my disability.

    • PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world
      15·
      6 days ago

      Red states are excelling in this regard. Vaulting unqualified and downright damaged/damaging right-wingers into teaching positions so they can further pollute our young. There was even a recent scandal (Texas) about having other people take their yearly assessment/qualification exams for them. And even now Texas is wholly de-funding public education in favor of private indoctrination schools. Yay. :-|

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      6 days ago

      A magat professor?

      Far more common than you’d initially guess, especially in big red states like Texas and Florida.

      The Charlie Kirk-ification of academia has systematically removed much of the so-called Liberal Academic base and used their chairs as sinecures for conservative cronies and nepotism hires.

    • Envy@quokk.auEnglish
      9·
      6 days ago

      It was an operating systems class. He spent half the time waxing poetically about Microsoft in the 90s and the other half calling Elon a tech genius.

      • LordMayor@piefed.socialEnglish
        2·
        6 days ago

        There’s nothing wrong with community college but it sounds like you’re plenty qualified to get into a real university.

    • lechekaflan@lemmy.world
      3·
      6 days ago

      There do indeed exist educators who have heavy ideological biases and horrible personalities, and likewise some supposedly educated people who are into extreme ideologies either because they absolutely hate specific groups and/or because they’re in for personal profit that could happen once they’re in charge.