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Education in the United States is run at the local and state level. Also, The US Department of Education can only spend money they has been appropriated by Con
by barney54 6y ago
Education in the United States is run at the local and state level. Also, The US Department of Education can only spend money they has been appropriated by Congress. When Congress hasn’t appropriated federal funds for the US Department of Education to send to local school districts for remote learning, they generally can’t send money no matter how worthy the expenditure would be.
- panzagl 6y agoThe DoE could have set clear guidelines though- even without money that would have given local boards and teachers something to fall back on. Now pretty much every district has to make their own decisions, which only increases confusion.
- pessimizer 6y agoMore simply, they could have helped coordinate the preparations. Which is the only legitimate function of government. What happened is consistent, though; the Republicans have long made clear their opposition to any federal role in education at all.
- achenatx 6y agowell they are basing it on the constitution, which lists no specific power for the federal govt to be involved in education.