The Education Department plans to announce Tuesday that it will move multiple parts of the agency to other federal departments, an unprecedented and unilateral effort to dismantle an agency created by Congress to ensure all Americans have equal access to educational opportunity and better coordinate federal programs.

The move was described by three people informed of the plan ahead of the announcement. Two of these people said six offices within the department would be shifted elsewhere; the third person said it was at least two.

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    Ok but, education is a subsidy for corporations. It makes sure we’re educated enough to be worth hiring. Among other things, education is important in making us competitive.

    Nobody should want this except for traitorous elites ready to leave the country the instant the tap runs dry. Even the most soulless neolib/conservative ought to realize education is necessary.

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      education is a subsidy for corporations

      It’s a perquisite for domestic development of professional labor. But where those laborers work is dictated by their access to capital. Corporate monopolization of real estate and advanced machinery forces professional workers into their employment. The act of publicly provisioning education isn’t what yields subsidy. Its the caging of graduates into privately owned industries through control of physical and intellectual properties.

      Nobody should want this except for traitorous elites ready to leave the country the instant the tap runs dry.

      I think you’re getting out ahead of your skis.

      Trump defends U-turn on Chinese student visas after Maga backlash

      The White House has said that those 600,000 student visas will be issued over the next two years, in line with numbers issued in previous years.

      The plan isn’t for American plutocrats to pick up and leave. It is to swing open the doors of the Guest Worker program and import millions of professionally skilled indentured servants.