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Should the U.S. Department of Education be abolished?

Established in 1979, the Department of Education distributes federal financial aid and enforces civil rights laws in schools, though it does not establish schools or curricula. Proponents argue it is essential for ensuring equal access to education and supporting students with disabilities and from low-income families. Opponents contend that education is a state and local responsibility, arguing the department is an unconstitutional federal overreach that has failed to improve academic performance.

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Response rates from 4.9k America voters.

21%
Yes
79%
No
15%
Yes
69%
No
4%
Yes, education belongs to states and parents, not federal bureaucrats
5%
No, this would decimate funding for special needs and low-income students
2%
Yes, it has wasted billions without improving student performance
3%
No, federal oversight is necessary to protect civil rights and ensure equality
3%
No, but limit its power to only managing student loans and grants

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 @BBSGP69 from Virgin Islands  answered…4mos4MO

Yes. Education belongs to the nation and parents. Not bureaucrats. But it’s important to oversight and protect civil rights and equality

 @9FKP4P7  from Georgia  answered…4mos4MO

It should stay in place, but be redesigned to help fund schools. The educational loan system also needs tobe redesigned. Stop giving loans out like candy, lower the interest rate to 2% or less, zero percent would be best.

 @BC23M5W from Arizona  answered…3mos3MO

Not yet, because it is a temporary solution to more fundamental issues that when solved would render the US Department of Education defunct.

 @BBJQG58 from South Carolina  answered…4mos4MO

If education were abolished, that´d destroy America as a whole and eliminate any future generations from gaining the necessary knowledge to make educated opinions and good choices based on their own intellectual knowledge.

 @BDX9T8K  from Arizona  answered…1wk1W

No, but it needs to be completely revamped probably.

 @85QWNPG  from Colorado  answered…2wks2W

No, it should be nationalized as a more structured organization with free education as its mantle

 @BDYG44W from Massachusetts  answered…2wks2W

Reform it and make it better and effective

 @BDY2TDDfrom Maine  answered…2wks2W

Reduce power to the states but fun poor and low income familys

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Israeli Bombings Kill 2,300 In Lebanon in 3 weeks

Lebanese authorities say Israeli bombing has killed more than 2,300 people and injured almost 11,000, mostly in the past three weeks, with Israeli attacks reaching areas far beyond Hizbollah’s traditional bastions of support in the south.The Israeli military has ordered people living in more than a quarter of Lebanon to flee, according to a UN calculation, as its fight with the Iran-backed Shia militant group Hizbollah threatens to engulf the Mediterranean country.Lebanese authorities say Israeli bombing has killed more than 2,300 people and injured almost 11,000, mostly in the past three weeks, with Israeli attacks reaching areas far beyond Hizbollah’s traditional bastions of support in the south.More than 1mn people have fled their homes in Lebanon in under a month, according to its government, a dramatic forced movement of the population in a country of only about 5mn inhabitants with a land mass smaller than the US state of Connecticut. Israeli forces began a ground offensive in south Lebanon two weeks ago, in their fourth invasion of the country in under five decades. They had already destroyed large parts of the densely populated southern Beirut suburb where Hizbollah had its headquarters, and killed many top militant commanders in air strikes, including former leader Hassan Nasrallah.Rema Jamous Imseis, Middle East director of UNHCR, told journalists in Geneva that “over 25 per cent of [Lebanon is] under a direct Israeli military evacuation order”. “People are heeding these calls to evacuate and they’re fleeing with almost nothing,” she added, saying that 80 per cent of the shelters opened by the Lebanese government — mostly in schools — were now full.

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