I have a department of education question. The DOE in Washington DC has a budget of $268B (2024) and employs 4,400 workers. So, if you dissolved it you could theoretically send that $ to each school correct? What am I missing? There are 115,171 K to 12 schools in the US. Dividing that out you could give $2.3M to each one each year. What does the DOE in DC do that makes it more worthwhile to NOT send that money to schools? Could you imagine your kid's school getting an extra $2.3M each year?
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Or ... just cut taxes, let people keep their money, and they can fund their local schools as arranged locally.ScottS said:
I have a department of education question. The DOE in Washington DC has a budget of $268B (2024) and employs 4,400 workers. So, if you dissolved it you could theoretically send that $ to each school correct? What am I missing? There are 115,171 K to 12 schools in the US. Dividing that out you could give $2.3M to each one each year. What does the DOE in DC do that makes it more worthwhile to NOT send that money to schools? Could you imagine your kid's school getting an extra $2.3M each year?
I believe an overwhelming majority of DOE funds goes to higher education - those institutions with the billion-dollar endowments. I think it is only a tiny % that goes to secondary schools.
The schools would just hire more admins and the money would never help the students. School budgets have ballooned but the number of teachers have not grown much at all. All the money is going to more admins.
Harrison Bergeron said:
I believe an overwhelming majority of DOE funds goes to higher education - those institutions with the billion-dollar endowments. I think it is only a tiny % that goes to secondary schools.
We don't need to be funding there from the federal level at all. And we should look at how they are treated under the tax code.
hodedofome said:
The schools would just hire more admins and the money would never help the students. School budgets have ballooned but the number of teachers have not grown much at all. All the money is going to more admins.
In many districts that was partly due to the federal requirements and paperwork that had to be done to satisfy the DOE.
Plus it could easily be given with the catch that the money can only go towards teachers, curriculum, etc. to prevent it from going towards another district level position.
Not to mention all the accommodations for DEI/CRT initiatives, ESL, etc. Schools in this country spend way too much time on cultural issues. BTW, my daughter is a teacher. I will also say we generally don't have a teacher problem. We have a parent problem. Until we hold parents accountable for their children's behavior and academics, no amount of money will ever fix our school problems. The lack of basic reading, writing, math is atrocious (especially in very blue districts).cowboycwr said:hodedofome said:
The schools would just hire more admins and the money would never help the students. School budgets have ballooned but the number of teachers have not grown much at all. All the money is going to more admins.
In many districts that was partly due to the federal requirements and paperwork that had to be done to satisfy the DOE.
Plus it could easily be given with the catch that the money can only go towards teachers, curriculum, etc. to prevent it from going towards another district level position.
Just to be clear DOE is Department of Energy and ED (yeah yeah) is Education Department.
The point of this thread wasn't teachers vs parents, its $$$ for Department of Education in DC or sent to the schools.jbbear said:Not to mention all the accommodations for DEI/CRT initiatives, ESL, etc. Schools in this country spend way too much time on cultural issues. BTW, my daughter is a teacher. I will also say we generally don't have a teacher problem. We have a parent problem. Until we hold parents accountable for their children's behavior and academics, no amount of money will ever fix our school problems. The lack of basic reading, writing, math is atrocious (especially in very blue districts).cowboycwr said:hodedofome said:
The schools would just hire more admins and the money would never help the students. School budgets have ballooned but the number of teachers have not grown much at all. All the money is going to more admins.
In many districts that was partly due to the federal requirements and paperwork that had to be done to satisfy the DOE.
Plus it could easily be given with the catch that the money can only go towards teachers, curriculum, etc. to prevent it from going towards another district level position.