Trump appointees may force the shutdown of large sections of USDOE website by COB today, according to a credible source. If you want to save anything, this may be last chance—if they follow through. 🔌💡
January 31, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Trump appointees may force the shutdown of large sections of USDOE website by COB today, according to a credible source. If you want to save anything, this may be last chance—if they follow through. 🔌💡
October 13, 2025 at 3:06 AM
5) I imagine this one as the USDOE at the DMV. The DMV says, There is a form for that. Line 5.
But USDOE did not want to use the form 🙄
"[You] cannot make improvisatory changes to legal assurances and impose new requirements on recipients without adhering to rulemaking procedures. [See the law]."
But USDOE did not want to use the form 🙄
"[You] cannot make improvisatory changes to legal assurances and impose new requirements on recipients without adhering to rulemaking procedures. [See the law]."
April 9, 2025 at 11:52 PM
5) I imagine this one as the USDOE at the DMV. The DMV says, There is a form for that. Line 5.
But USDOE did not want to use the form 🙄
"[You] cannot make improvisatory changes to legal assurances and impose new requirements on recipients without adhering to rulemaking procedures. [See the law]."
But USDOE did not want to use the form 🙄
"[You] cannot make improvisatory changes to legal assurances and impose new requirements on recipients without adhering to rulemaking procedures. [See the law]."
Reviewing something with USDOE in it and WHY IS THE UNIVERSE TESTING ME TODAY?!?
March 31, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Reviewing something with USDOE in it and WHY IS THE UNIVERSE TESTING ME TODAY?!?
6) Next up, as kind reader @iamarthurkotb.bsky.social put it, "Ouch!"
[Or, the USDOE as the Goldilocks of DEI. First bowl of porridge, all DEI! Second bowl of porridge, no DEI! What is just right?]
[Or, the USDOE as the Goldilocks of DEI. First bowl of porridge, all DEI! Second bowl of porridge, no DEI! What is just right?]
April 10, 2025 at 12:00 AM
6) Next up, as kind reader @iamarthurkotb.bsky.social put it, "Ouch!"
[Or, the USDOE as the Goldilocks of DEI. First bowl of porridge, all DEI! Second bowl of porridge, no DEI! What is just right?]
[Or, the USDOE as the Goldilocks of DEI. First bowl of porridge, all DEI! Second bowl of porridge, no DEI! What is just right?]
November 20, 2025 at 1:27 AM
All of the news is driving me nuts. I am an special education administrator in a very poor district in the south. It has taken me 4 years to expand our department to meet the needs of our most vulnerable…students with disabilities. The thought of eliminating USDOE and cutting funding makes me sick.
December 7, 2024 at 7:12 PM
All of the news is driving me nuts. I am an special education administrator in a very poor district in the south. It has taken me 4 years to expand our department to meet the needs of our most vulnerable…students with disabilities. The thought of eliminating USDOE and cutting funding makes me sick.
This is Big! Courts have order the USDOE to stop sharing confidential information with DOGE. So many educators and others provided information to the USDOE for student loans. That information must be protected and not be shared with random people.
When people give their financial & other personal information to the federal govt—to secure financial aid for their kids to go to college, or to get a student loan—they expect that data to be protected & used as intended, not appropriated for other means. www.aft.org/press-releas...
Federal Court Orders Department of Education and Office of Personal Management to Stop Sharing Private Data with DOGE Affiliates
GREENBELT, Md.—On Feb. 24, the United States District Court for the District of Maryland issued a temporary restraining order prohibiting the Department of Education and the Office of Personnel Manage...
www.aft.org
February 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
This is Big! Courts have order the USDOE to stop sharing confidential information with DOGE. So many educators and others provided information to the USDOE for student loans. That information must be protected and not be shared with random people.
The USDOE has cut funding for more than a dozen language and culture programs at Indiana University, on the grounds that they "do not advance American interests or values."
IU has long been a leader in these fields, but something tells me--leadership won't push back.
www.ipm.org/news/2025-09...
IU has long been a leader in these fields, but something tells me--leadership won't push back.
www.ipm.org/news/2025-09...
Funding cut for IU programs that ‘do not advance American interests or values’
The U.S. Department of Education is ending funding for more than a dozen Indiana University programs that “do not advance American interests or values,” according to a Sept. 10 letter. The loss of fun...
www.ipm.org
September 13, 2025 at 11:28 AM
The USDOE has cut funding for more than a dozen language and culture programs at Indiana University, on the grounds that they "do not advance American interests or values."
IU has long been a leader in these fields, but something tells me--leadership won't push back.
www.ipm.org/news/2025-09...
IU has long been a leader in these fields, but something tells me--leadership won't push back.
www.ipm.org/news/2025-09...
Rally at the USDOE with speakers including public ed advocates, an illegally fired DOE worker, parents and teachers, a Georgetown student who wouldn’t be there w/o public schools and DOE programs, Rep. Mark Takano & more. #SpeakUp4Ed
March 11, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Rally at the USDOE with speakers including public ed advocates, an illegally fired DOE worker, parents and teachers, a Georgetown student who wouldn’t be there w/o public schools and DOE programs, Rep. Mark Takano & more. #SpeakUp4Ed
so this is fun: i have some errors on data reports i submit to usdoe and am pretty sure the errors are misfiring on ed’s end but of course the contract has been axed - and i *think* the tech stuff was run by the contractor so ed can’t fix it lol
February 13, 2025 at 4:07 PM
so this is fun: i have some errors on data reports i submit to usdoe and am pretty sure the errors are misfiring on ed’s end but of course the contract has been axed - and i *think* the tech stuff was run by the contractor so ed can’t fix it lol
In a culture of austerity and with a USDOE that is cutting spending, teachers are likely to be assigned more students. When class sizes grow, students get less attention, and positions can be cut.
Trump May Soon Defy Congress and Cut $5 Billion More From Schools
Funding for migrant education, English-learner services, professional development, and after-school programming is at risk.
www.edweek.org
June 29, 2025 at 9:41 AM
In a culture of austerity and with a USDOE that is cutting spending, teachers are likely to be assigned more students. When class sizes grow, students get less attention, and positions can be cut.
2) Summarizing, (& playfully para-quoting), We already certified that we follow the law, as recently as Jan ‘25! SOOOOO, what are you doing?
“NYSED is unaware of any authority that USDOE has to demand that [we] agree to [what you say just because you say it] without formal administrative process.”
“NYSED is unaware of any authority that USDOE has to demand that [we] agree to [what you say just because you say it] without formal administrative process.”
April 9, 2025 at 10:39 PM
2) Summarizing, (& playfully para-quoting), We already certified that we follow the law, as recently as Jan ‘25! SOOOOO, what are you doing?
“NYSED is unaware of any authority that USDOE has to demand that [we] agree to [what you say just because you say it] without formal administrative process.”
“NYSED is unaware of any authority that USDOE has to demand that [we] agree to [what you say just because you say it] without formal administrative process.”
What does the U.S. Department of Education NOT do? Set curriculum - that’s all up to state and local school districts. #education #edpolicy #usdoe #ed #commoncore
February 21, 2025 at 7:49 PM
What does the U.S. Department of Education NOT do? Set curriculum - that’s all up to state and local school districts. #education #edpolicy #usdoe #ed #commoncore
Great summary of the importance of USDOE 👇
🧵 If you’re applauding the abolishment of the Department of Education, you need to do a little research. You have ZERO clue what the DOE actually does.
Here’s a reality check on what the Department of Education actually does:
(1/14)
Here’s a reality check on what the Department of Education actually does:
(1/14)
February 14, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Great summary of the importance of USDOE 👇
“USDOE is entitled to make whatever policy pronouncements it wants — but cannot conflate policy with law”
April 4, 2025 at 10:34 PM
“USDOE is entitled to make whatever policy pronouncements it wants — but cannot conflate policy with law”
OMG... perfect reason why there needs to be a USDOE.
March 22, 2025 at 12:27 PM
OMG... perfect reason why there needs to be a USDOE.
I haven't forgotten about my offer to shared my phone recordings in relation to the USDoE complaint I'd made that they "investigated". That stuff's still pretty raw and often avoidance has been my cope. It's still something I'd like to share if it might end up helping others somehow.
October 4, 2026 at 5:47 PM
I haven't forgotten about my offer to shared my phone recordings in relation to the USDoE complaint I'd made that they "investigated". That stuff's still pretty raw and often avoidance has been my cope. It's still something I'd like to share if it might end up helping others somehow.
Tell your GOP-voting friends that USDOE does more to fund education in rural communities than they may think.
Or at least it used to.
Or at least it used to.
www.ed.gov
February 13, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Tell your GOP-voting friends that USDOE does more to fund education in rural communities than they may think.
Or at least it used to.
Or at least it used to.
A good primer on #geothermal (both low-temp #heatpump - assisted and high-temp including power generation. Reports to download - maybe act now (USDOE source) although the trumpers don't seem so negative on geothermal
“We are sitting on a continentwide goldmine.”
-@charlesgertler.bsky.social
liftoff.energy.gov/geothermal-h...
-@charlesgertler.bsky.social
liftoff.energy.gov/geothermal-h...
Geothermal Heating and Cooling - Pathways to Commercial Liftoff
Learn more about the U.S. Department of Energy’s Pathways to Commercial Liftoff Report on Advanced Nuclear Technology
liftoff.energy.gov
January 27, 2025 at 3:27 PM
A good primer on #geothermal (both low-temp #heatpump - assisted and high-temp including power generation. Reports to download - maybe act now (USDOE source) although the trumpers don't seem so negative on geothermal
Among the shockers from the FOIA to the USDoE: a uni risk assessment team had gone digging for dirt on me (none!) at prior unis I'd attended - while never investigating what I'd reported. My chair wrote people in the dept that I'd violated cease & desist orders when I'd never been sent even one.
October 4, 2026 at 6:55 PM
Among the shockers from the FOIA to the USDoE: a uni risk assessment team had gone digging for dirt on me (none!) at prior unis I'd attended - while never investigating what I'd reported. My chair wrote people in the dept that I'd violated cease & desist orders when I'd never been sent even one.
And yet our USDOE funded grant was canceled effective yesterday at 5 pm.
February 13, 2025 at 8:51 AM
And yet our USDOE funded grant was canceled effective yesterday at 5 pm.
The DOE oversees our nuclear stockpile via NNSA—which means a non-background-checked 20-something gaining USDOE IT access could be all it takes for Russia, North Korea, or Iran to get a front-row seat to our nuclear security. Feeling safe yet?
February 7, 2025 at 12:20 AM
The DOE oversees our nuclear stockpile via NNSA—which means a non-background-checked 20-something gaining USDOE IT access could be all it takes for Russia, North Korea, or Iran to get a front-row seat to our nuclear security. Feeling safe yet?
And there it is. The USDOE is gone
So...this just happened.
It's time to get organised, call your reps and demand the department of Education be protected because this rhetoric must stop RIGHT NOW!
Never give up until this fascism is defeated!
#ImpeachTrump ✊🏽✊🏿
#TransRightsAreHumanRights 🏳️⚧️
#LoveIsLove 🏳️🌈
#Democracy 🌏🫂
#Education
It's time to get organised, call your reps and demand the department of Education be protected because this rhetoric must stop RIGHT NOW!
Never give up until this fascism is defeated!
#ImpeachTrump ✊🏽✊🏿
#TransRightsAreHumanRights 🏳️⚧️
#LoveIsLove 🏳️🌈
#Democracy 🌏🫂
#Education
Donald Trump signs executive order to dismantle Education Department
The White House said the department will not close completely right now.
www.upday.com
March 20, 2025 at 9:41 PM
And there it is. The USDOE is gone