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Do you support dismantling the Department of Education?

Do you support dismantling the Department of Education?

Yes

9

No

1

Yes

6 Comments
Eric Smith
4
Eric Smith

The Marxists have essentially taken over this federal organization and it has been filtered down into the public schools over the past 50 years. Destroy it and start over.

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Steve Baumann
3
Steve Baumann

The quality of education has dropped when we should be at or near the top. Somehow the department lost track of who the customers are. The students and the parents. People need to understand, this is not the elimination of the department, it is the right sizing of it.

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Cindy L. Robinson
3
Cindy L. Robinson

we need to get back to reading, writing, math, shop, Home Economics and our United States History

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Max DeYoung
2
Max DeYoung

After $3 trillion dollars spent on the DOE since 1979, test scores, reading rates, and global education rankings have dropped significantly. There are better ways to help the states educate their children.

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Toasty
2
Toasty

Teacher's unions, bureaucracy, federal regulations have failed our kids. Give the power (and money) back to the schools and let teachers do what they do best, teach. No more common core nonsense, DEI, and lets start with reading. Reading, writing, arithmetic, the rest will figure itself out.

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David Dean
2
David Dean

The DoE has no mandate in the constitution. Education policy should be determined and enforced at the local level as the founders intended.

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No

1 Comment
Glenda Bono
1
Glenda Bono

Our special needs children need a federal department of education to oversee that the states educates them appropriately.

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Zaos Gonzolez
Zaos Gonzolez

How about you educate your only child Karen. Absolving your responsibility is what the government wants you to do.

Max DeYoung
Max DeYoung

After $3 trillion dollars spent on the DOE since 1979, test scores, reading rates, and global education rankings have dropped significantly.

Steve Baumann
Steve Baumann

Trump understands that. Anyone saying otherwise is not being truthful. MAGA supports all of those that truly need help. Too many have taken advantage of the system, and been allowed to do so. Soon, those worthy of need shall have more of it.

Has gun violence changed the way you see Columbia?

Has gun violence changed the way you see Columbia?

Yes

7

No

2

Yes

3 Comments
Mike Whitaker
0
Mike Whitaker

It’s become very unsafe; Columbia use to be on the most desirable places to live in the country… based partly on how safe it was; now it’s become unsafe!

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Bill Douglas
0
Bill Douglas

Do you approve of state employees being able to retire, draw a lifetime pension of thousands of dollars each month so they can spend their retirement “going to MU sports” like one local MoDOT engineer in my town has publicly stated? I can give name & title if anyone wants to file a complaint.

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Max DeYoung
0
Max DeYoung

It scares me to go there. I only go to Columbia, when it can not be avoided. I'm old and can't defend myself like a young man. I served my country for eleven years when I was younger. I would have done 20 but I chose a job that paid 3 times what my E-6 military pay was. Thanks to President Carter

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Bill Douglas
Bill Douglas

Yet you have no problem with allowing taxpayer-funded state employees who are graduates of UM, collecting taxpayer funded pensions so they can “spend their retirement at UM ball games”?! You need to join our movement to start filing complaints against these kinds of people

Max DeYoung
Max DeYoung

Five people injured in three shootings in Columbia since Friday

Max DeYoung
Max DeYoung

Carter drove many good soldiers away, I'm glad that I was one of them.

No

2 Comments
Zaos Gonzolez
1
Zaos Gonzolez

Columbia has ALWAYS been communist. Why would government funded poverty and crime be a surprise?

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Bill Douglas
Bill Douglas

So what are you going to do about it? Just sit there and condone it instead of taking action against state employees who publicly go on record saying they are going to take their taxpayer funded pensions and move there to “watch MU sports for retirement”? Want some names/numbers and file complaints?

Fat Guy Outdoors
0
Fat Guy Outdoors

The leadership of this town is what scares me. Or lack of it .

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Are improvements to Interstate 70 worth the traffic headaches?

Are improvements to Interstate 70 worth the traffic headaches?

Yes

1

No

3

Yes

1 Comment
Steve Baumann
1
Steve Baumann

These improvements are long overdue. People need to be patient and use alternative routes. I am stunned at how fast the construction is going. Impressive!

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Bill Douglas
Bill Douglas

People need to be writing their state congressmen and complaining about these UM engineering computer graduates who take their laptops and hang out in left-wing coffee shops doing who knows what. That’s the real problem.

Bill Douglas
Bill Douglas

The people who come up with these “design ideas” are the same UM engineering school graduates who make obscene amount of money timing stoplights; people who are just a bunch of socially-awkward computer nerds who deserve to be thrown in mental wards instead of being allowed to go around freely.

No

1 Comments
Bill Douglas
0
Bill Douglas

I refuse to give credit to UM Engineering school engineers who work on this stuff.

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