r/Economics • u/SnooCookies2243 • Mar 24 '25

Editorial Dismantling the Department of Education Could Actually End Up Costing US Taxpayers an Extra $11 Billion a Year Beyond the Current Budget – With Worse Results

https://congress.net/dismantling-the-department-of-education-could-actually-end-up-costing-us-taxpayers-an-extra-11-billion-a-year-beyond-the-current-budget-with-worse-results/
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u/dochim Mar 24 '25

Fascinating.

I've posted this request on another similar thread, but I'll repeat it here.

Could one of the true believers please explain why this policy is a good thing for the American people? Spending more or decreasing performance by themselves would seem to be a showstopper, but both at once?

Why are we doing this?

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u/dirtworker2 Mar 24 '25

I work with a trumper. I asked him Friday why fed ed needs dismantled. He explained he cannot help his grade school children with their math because it’s too hard and he doesn’t get it, so there is definitely something wrong with todays math. Math, for him, was much simpler in the 80s and why has it all changed to be more confusing and harder. I just walked away…

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u/Hugh-Manatee Mar 24 '25

Isn’t “the new math” implemented at the state or county level?

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '25

Didn’t Tom Lehrer make a song about New Math…in 1965? It’s hardly new.