YO DEMS: We’ve Introduced A Bill For Scrapping The DOE… Are You Worried?

Have you ever wondered what scrapping the DEA might look like? Wonder no longer. We’ve now got the framework of a bill now being unveiled in committee.

Senator Mike Rounds (R-SC) introduced the Returning Education to Our States Act”. True to its name, it transfers oversight and control of education from Washington to the various states.

Full text is available here.

A BILL
To abolish the Department of Education, and for other
purposes.
1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa
2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Returning Education
5 to Our States Act’’.
6 SEC. 2. ABOLISHMENT OF DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION.
7 Effective on the date that is 180 days after the date
8 of enactment of this Act, the Department of Education
9 is abolished, and, with the exception of the programs
10 transferred under section 3, any program for which the
11 Secretary of Education or the Department of Education
2
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1 has administrative responsibility as provided by law or by
2 delegation of authority pursuant to law is repealed, includ
3 ing each program under the following:

DOA abolished 180 days after it takes force of law. Cool.
So, what exactly will this entail?

Corey A. DeAngelis summarized it in a 9 panelthread.

Without posting every frame, here is what he said about it.

There are a lot of subordinate programs within the DOE. This bill does not nuke the American education system as a whole. It just breaks the bureaucratic stranglehold of an over-powered and ineffective government agency. The various responsibilities are reallocated elsewhere.

Here are the transfers to the Department of Health and Human Services:
• Special needs (IDEA)
• Title VIII impact aid of ESEA

+ Office of Indian Education to Department of Interior

Transfers to the Department of the Treasury:

• Pell Grants
• Perkins Loans
• Federal Family Education Loans
•William D. Ford Loans
• Health Education Assistance Loans
• Education Sciences Reform Act
• Educational Technical Assistance Act
• Parts F/G/H of Title IV

Oh, but what about the funding for the students?
Would somebody PLEASE think of the chiiiiildren!
Not to worry… that’s covered too.

Secretary of the Treasury provides block grants back to the states based on their number of K-12 students.
Funding can be used “for any purpose relating to early childhood, elementary, or secondary education.”

And post-secondary… are they left high and dry?
Nope.

Secretary of the Treasury will also provide block grants to the states for post-secondary education based on number of students enrolled.

Are there strings attached? Yes.

To receive block grants, states must:

• Submit student data to the Secretary of Treasury annually
• Complete annual audits that conform to GAAP and submit results to Treasury
• Comply with all applicable Federal civil rights laws
• Repay any misused funds

“The Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice shall be responsible for receiving complaints and otherwise enforcing and carrying out Federal civil rights laws that are applicable to the grant programs”

How real is it?

We now have a bill number.

It’s in the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

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