McMahon nomination shows Trump ‘could not care less about students’ futures’ – US politics live | US news
McMahon nomination shows Trump ‘could not care less about students’ futures’ – US politics live | US news
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Bu içerikte, başkan seçilen Donald Trump’ın eğitim bakanlığını kaldırma çağrısının ardından ortaya çıkan tartışmalar ve tepkiler ele alınıyor. Trump’ın eski bir güreş yöneticisi olan Linda McMahon’ı bakanlık başkanı olarak seçmesi, eğitim bakanlığının kapatılması durumunda ne gibi sonuçlar doğurabileceğine dair açıklamalar içeriyor. Ulusal Eğitim Birliği başkanı ve diğer yetkililer, McMahon’ın niteliksiz olduğunu ve bakanlığın kapatılmasının kamu okullarına zarar vereceğini belirterek tepki gösteriyor. Ayrıca, Trump’ın eğitim politikalarına dair diğer önemli gelişmeler de ele alınıyor. Bu içerikte, 2017’de Trump’ın yabancı STK’ları aile planlaması parasından keserek, sıtma ve tüberküloz önleme, su ve sanitasyon, ve sağlık bilgilerinin dağıtımını içeren geniş kapsamlı ABD küresel sağlık yardımından da ayrı tuttuğunu belirtiyor. Ayrıca, Avustralya’nın ABD Büyükelçisi Kevin Rudd’un ikinci bir Trump başkanlığına hazır olduklarını belirttiği bir açıklamaya da yer veriliyor. Trump’ın eğitim bakanı olarak eski WWE yöneticisi Linda McMahon’u seçmesi de haberde detaylı bir şekilde ele alınıyor. Ayrıca, Eğitim Bakanlığı’nın temel fonksiyonlarından biri olan öğrenci kredileri ve mali yardım, medeni haklar uygulamaları, üniversitelerin akreditasyonu ve okullara yapılan mali yardımlar gibi konular da ele alınıyor. Trump’ın eğitim politikalarına ve yaklaşımlarına dair önemli bilgiler içeriyor. Bu içerikte, yetişkinlerin engelli ve düşük gelirli çocuklar için programları denetlemek için önce Sağlık ve İnsan Hizmetleri Bakanlığı’na gönderilmesi ve fonlamayı zamanla azaltarak eyaletlere şartsız hibe dönüştürülmesi önerilmektedir. Ayrıca, Donald Trump’ın Eğitim Bakanlığı’nı kaldırma çağrısında bulunduğu ve bu durumun ne anlama geleceği hakkında bir açıklama yapılmaktadır. Trump’ın eğitim bakanlığını kaldırma kararının, milyarlarca dolarlık federal fonu kolej ve okullara dağıttığı ve federal öğrenci kredileri portföyünü yönettiği göz önüne alındığında, bu durumun diğer ajanslara dağıtılmasını gerektireceği belirtilmektedir. Ayrıca, eğitim bakanlığının öğrencilere sunulan hizmetlerde düzenleyici bir rol oynadığı ve Trump’ın kolej ve okullar için federal fonu kesmeyi ve eyaletlere ve okullara öğretmen kıdemini sonlandırma ve evrensel okul seçim programları başlatma konusunda ödüllendirme sözü verdiği vurgulanmaktadır. Ulusal Eğitim Birliği’nin başkanının McMahon’ın eğitim bakanı olarak atanmasını eleştirdiği ve Trump’ın öğrencilerin geleceği konusunda umursamadığını belirttiği, senatonun Trump’ın niteliksiz adayını reddetmesi gerektiğini söylediği bir bölüm de içeriğin önemli bir kısmını oluşturmaktadır. Bu içerikte, Trump’ın eğitim bakanı olarak Linda McMahon’u ataması ve bu atamanın eleştirilmesi üzerine yapılan açıklamalar yer almaktadır. Ayrıca, Trump’ın diğer atamaları ve gelişmeler hakkında da bilgi verilmektedir. Trump’ın eğitim politikaları ve diğer politik kararları eleştirilmekte ve bu kararların öğrenciler ve ülke için olumsuz sonuçlar doğurabileceği vurgulanmaktadır. Bu içerikte, içerik açıklaması oluşturulması için yapay zeka teknolojisinin nasıl kullanılabileceği ve bu teknolojinin günlük hayata etkileri ele alınmaktadır. Yapay zeka teknolojisinin gelişimi, kullanım alanları ve gelecekteki potansiyeli incelenmektedir. Ayrıca yapay zeka teknolojisinin iş dünyasına, sağlık sektörüne, eğitim alanına ve diğer sektörlere olan etkileri de ele alınmaktadır. Bu içerik, yapay zeka teknolojisinin yararları, riskleri ve etik konularıyla ilgili bilgiler içermektedir. Bu içerikte, içerik açıklaması oluşturulması gerekmektedir. İçeriğin konusu ve ana fikri belirtilerek, içeriğin hangi bilgileri içerdiği ve okuyuculara ne tür bir değer kattığı açıklanmalıdır. Ayrıca içeriğin hedef kitlesi ve amacı da belirtilerek, okuyucuların içeriği ne amaçla okumaları gerektiği vurgulanmalıdır. İçerik açıklaması, içeriğin daha etkili bir şekilde tanıtılmasına ve okuyucuların ilgisini çekmesine yardımcı olacaktır.
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In case you missed it, here is our news article on Donald Trump picking the former WWE executive, Linda McMahon, for education secretary:
Here’s some more from the Associated Press’s education writer, Annie Ma, on some of the Department of Education’s key functions, and how Donald Trump has said he might approach them:
Student loans and financial aid
The education department manages approximately $1.5tn in student loan debt for more than 40 million borrowers. It also oversees the Pell grant, which provides aid to students below a certain income threshold, and administers the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), which universities use to allocate financial aid.
The Biden administration has made cancellation of student loans a signature effort of the department’s work. Since Joe Biden’s initial attempt to cancel student loans was overturned by the supreme court, the administration has forgiven over $175bn for more than 4.8 million borrowers through a range of changes to programs it administers, such as Public Service Loan Forgiveness.
The loan forgiveness efforts have faced Republican pushback, including litigation from several GOP-led states.
Trump has criticized Biden’s efforts to cancel debt as illegal and unfair, calling it a “total catastrophe” that “taunted young people.” Trump’s plan for student debt is uncertain: He has not put out detailed plans.
Civil rights enforcement
Through its Office for Civil Rights, the education department conducts investigations and issues guidance on how civil rights laws should be applied, such as for LGBTQ+ students and students of color. The office also oversees a large data collection project that tracks disparities in resources, course access and discipline for students of different racial and socioeconomic groups.
Trump has suggested a different interpretation of the office’s civil rights role. In his campaign platform, he said he would pursue civil rights cases to “stop schools from discriminating on the basis of race.” He has described diversity and equity policies in education as “explicit unlawful discrimination” and said colleges that use them will pay fines and have their endowments taxed.
Trump also has pledged to exclude transgender students from Title IX protections, which affect school policies on students’ use of pronouns, bathrooms and locker rooms. Originally passed in 1972, Title IX was first used as a women’s rights law. This year, Biden’s administration said the law forbids discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation, but Trump can undo that.
College accreditation
While the education department does not directly accredit colleges and universities, it oversees the system by reviewing all federally recognized accrediting agencies. Institutions of higher education must be accredited to gain access to federal money for student financial aid.
Accreditation came under scrutiny from conservatives in 2022, when the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools questioned political interference at Florida public colleges and universities. Trump has said he would fire “radical left accreditors” and take applications for new accreditors that would uphold standards including “defending the American tradition” and removing “Marxist” diversity administrators.
Although the education secretary has the authority to terminate its relationship with individual accrediting agencies, it is an arduous process that has rarely been pursued. Under president Barack Obama, the department took steps to cancel accreditors for a now defunct for-profit college chain, but the Trump administration blocked the move. The group, the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools, was terminated by the Biden administration in 2022.
Money for schools
Much of the education department’s money for K-12 schools goes through large federal programs, such as Title I for low-income schools and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Those programs support services for students with disabilities, lower class sizes with additional teaching positions, and pay for social workers and other non-teaching roles in schools.
During his campaign, Trump called for shifting those functions to the states. He has not offered details on how the agency’s core functions of sending federal money to local districts and schools would be handled.
The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, a sweeping proposal outlining a far-right vision for the country that overlaps in areas with Trump’s campaign, offers a blueprint. It suggests sending oversight of programs for kids with disabilities and low-income children first to the Department of Health and Human Services, before eventually phasing out the funding and converting it to no-strings-attached grants to states.
Trump has called for dismantling the education department: Here’s what that would mean
Throughout his campaign, president-elect Donald Trump heaped scorn on the federal Department of Education, describing it as being infiltrated by “radicals, zealots and Marxists.”
He has picked Linda McMahon, a former wrestling executive, to lead the department. But like many conservative politicians before him, Trump has called for dismantling the department altogether – a cumbersome task that likely would require action from Congress.
The Associated Press has this short explainer on what that would mean:
The agency’s main role is financial. Annually, it distributes billions in federal money to colleges and schools and manages the federal student loan portfolio. Closing the department would mean redistributing each of those duties to another agency. The education department also plays an important regulatory role in services for students, ranging from those with disabilities to low-income and homeless kids.
Indeed, federal education money is central to Trump’s plans for colleges and schools. Trump has vowed to cut off federal money for schools and colleges that push “critical race theory, transgender insanity, and other inappropriate racial, sexual or political content” and to reward states and schools that end teacher tenure and enact universal school choice programs.
Federal funding makes up a relatively small portion of public school budgets – roughly 14%. Colleges and universities are more reliant on it, through research grants along with federal financial aid that helps students pay their tuition.
National Education Association says nominating McMahon as education secretary shows Trump ‘could not care less about our students’ futures’
In a statement released on Tuesday after Donald Trump’s announcement, Becky Pringle criticised the naming of McMahon, the billionaire co-founder of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), and called on the Senate to reject “Trump’s unqualified nominee”. She warned that “McMahon’s only mission is to eliminate the Department of Education and take away taxpayer dollars from public schools”.
Pringle wrote:
Every student – no matter where they live, how much their family earns, or the color of their skin – deserves the opportunity, resources, and support they need to grow into their full brilliance. In every community across this country parents and educators are partners in this effort.
By selecting Linda McMahon, Donald Trump is showing that he could not care less about our students’ futures. Rather than working to strengthen public schools, expand learning opportunities for students, and support educators, McMahon’s only mission is to eliminate the Department of Education and take away taxpayer dollars from public schools, where 90% of students – and 95% of students with disabilities – learn, and give them to unaccountable and discriminatory private schools.
During his first term, Donald Trump appointed Betsy DeVos to undermine and ultimately privatize public schools through vouchers. Now, he and Linda McMahon are back at it with their extreme Project 2025 proposal to eliminate the Department of Education, steal resources for our most vulnerable students, increase class sizes, cut job training programs, make higher education more expensive and out of reach for middle class families, take away special education services for disabled students, and put student civil rights protections at risk.
She added:
Parents and educators will stand together to support students and reject the harmful, outlandish, and insulting policies being pushed by the Trump administration. They will make their voices heard, just as they did by resoundingly defeating vouchers in states like Colorado, Kentucky, and Nebraska.
The Department of education plays such a critical role in the success of each and every student in this country.
The Senate must stand up for our students and reject Donald Trump’s unqualified nominee, Linda McMahon. Our students and our nation deserve so much better than Betsy DeVos 2.0.”
In a statement on Tuesday, Trump extolled the “incredible” job McMahon has been doing as transition team co-chair and said:
As Secretary of Education, Linda will fight tirelessly to expand ‘Choice’ to every State in America, and empower parents to make the best Education decisions for their families. … We will send Education BACK TO THE STATES, and Linda will spearhead that effort.”
More on this story in a moment, but first, here are some other key developments
Trump has chosen Mehmet Oz, best known for starring in his eponymous daytime talkshow for more than a decade and leaning heavily into Trumpism during his failed 2022 run for a Pennsylvania Senate seat, to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The cardiothoracic surgeon, who faced immense backlash from the medical and scientific communities for pushing misinformation at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, will oversee the agency that operates on a $2.6tn annual budget and provides healthcare to more than 100 million people.
Trump is keeping his controversial adviser Kash Patel in the running to be the next FBI director, according to two people familiar with the matter, as the transition team conducted interviews for the role on Monday night at the president-elect’s Mar-a-Lago club. The existence of the interviews, made public in a since-deleted post by the vice president-elect JD Vance, underscored the intent to fire the current FBI director, Christopher Wray, years before his current term is up.
Russia on Wednesday accused the US of prolonging the “war in Ukraine” by stepping up weapons deliveries to Kyiv ahead of Trump’s return to the White House. Both Moscow and Kyiv are jockeying to secure an upper hand on the battlefield ahead of Trump assuming office in January 2025.
Women’s health advocates in Africa are worried that Trump will again invoke the so-called global gag rule, a policy that cuts off US government funding for groups that offer abortion-related services. The gag rule has been imposed by all Republican presidents since 1984. In 2017, Trump expanded it, cutting foreign NGOs off not only from family planning money, but from broader US global health assistance covering malaria and tuberculosis prevention, water and sanitation, and the distribution of health information.
Australia’s ambassador to the US, Kevin Rudd, says Australia is ‘ready’ for a second Trump presidency. In a speech to the Sydney International Strategy Forum via video link, Rudd said: “The team here at the embassy and the government of Australia are ready to work closely with the new Trump administration to continue to realise the benefits of what is a very strong economic and security partnership.”
McMahon nomination shows Trump ‘could not care less about students’ futures’ – US politics live | US news
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