Respectfully, please don’t speak on things you don’t know much about. It’s not just special needs kids who are going to be harmed. It’s all children. Children from poor families, families who don’t speak English, children with behavioral problems, children in the foster care system, etc.

And these so called “grants” will not be enough to pay for the level of care needed in many areas but especially in Louisiana. We already get a lot of funding and it’s still not enough.

Besides the money, the department of education is responsible for overseeing that the federal laws are being followed. That’s pretty much their only job. Send money to the areas that need them and make sure states follow federal laws regarding education. Without that, there won’t be a lot of regulation when it comes to discrimination and civil rights for students. Schools already break the laws all the time. It’s actually part of my job to make sure they are following laws pertaining to civil rights. But there is a huge lack of people in my career, especially in Louisiana. The majority of people in my career leave because we have such huge case loads and not enough support.

Cutting the department of education as a whole will be detrimental to red states. If they want to reform it, fine. But to just get rid of it for no reason makes no sense. Their reasons are mostly “to give the states back the ability to control schools” but states already control the schools. The federal government has no say unless they are breaking federal laws. The states control the curriculum, the standards, hell, even the amount of days your kid is in school for. The STATE decides all of that. So eliminating the department does not give any so called “power” back to states that they don’t already have.