Letters: What gutting the Department of Education will actually do

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : The IRA provisioned almost $3 billion for Illinois, with investments in renewable energy through battery manufacturing, electric vehicle parts and solar technology.
59% : In the 2023-24 school year, 43.1% of Los Angeles public school students met the targets for state proficiency in reading; in math, only 32.8% met the standards.
58% : I am not necessarily anti-abortion rights.
52% : Evidently, this "bright man" and his cadre of computer geniuses are unaware that the COBOL programming language used by Social Security automatically uses May 20, 1875, as a placeholder date when information is missing or corrupted.
51% : For example, Musk recently proclaimed that Social Security benefits were being paid to 150-year-olds, intimating that fraud must be afoot.
49% : He wants to save money from gutting all departments in order to pay his billionaire buddies huge tax breaks in exchange for getting him elected.
49% : As Vallas pointed out in a piece two years ago, in 2019, only 26% of all Chicago Public Schools 11th graders were found to be proficient in reading and math, according to state assessments.
43% : " First, Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency have provided no proof of any "waste."
41% : Trump wants regulatory agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency or Food and Drug Administration or even the courts to have no say in interpreting laws -- only he or his appointed attorney general.
39% : In the same edition, a writer opines in criticizing a Paul Vallas op-ed that "it is in the name of state control that women no longer have the right to an abortion nationwide."
18% : Perhaps let the Government Accountability Office continue said work and rehire the inspectors general that Trump dismissed, who are already tasked with rooting out waste, fraud and corruption. -- K. Worth, Grayslake

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