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Yes, This is Bad

Dismantling the Department of Education will have devastating impacts

Gov. Bill Lee yesterday celebrated Donald Trump’s “executive order” to dismantle and effectively end the U.S. Department of Education.

Unsurprisingly, the same Governor who relentlessly pushed to destroy public education in Tennessee through a costly and ineffective school voucher scheme also supports this latest very bad idea.

Here’s a bit of what I wrote about it over at The Education Report:

In short: This will be bad. All of it. The end of the Department of Education. The end of public school. The advent of “free market, choose your own adventure” education.

The end result: an exacerbation of income-based inequality. Or, the dream scenario of Project 2025.

Gov. Bill Lee promoting school privatization

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Bill Lee Backs Bad Ideas

He wants the cash without the accountability

It’s not really surprising that Bill Lee is supporting incoming President Donald Trump’s bad ideas. That said, the impact on students in Tennessee schools could be devastating.

To be clear: The leader of a state that earns an “F” grade in investment in students, is near the bottom in the nation (and the Southeast) for teacher compensation, and consistently fails its most vulnerable students wants to remove all guardrails and just be trusted to “do what’s best?”

While it is not yet clear if Trump will actually dissolve the Department of Education, powering the agency down as he’s suggested could remove key protections for students with disabilities. It could also drastically alter how funding for low-income students is distributed.

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