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Do you support dismantling the Department of Education?
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Should meetings between Columbia and University of Missouri leaders be open to the public?
185 1
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444 5
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334 9
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603 16
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497 10
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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.

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.

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.

Should meetings between Columbia and University of Missouri leaders be open to the public?

Should meetings between Columbia and University of Missouri leaders be open to the public?

Yes

1

No

0

Yes

1 Comment
Steve Baumann
0
Steve Baumann

Why would anyone want it to not be?

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No

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Should the Columbia City Council approve an ordinance to keep people off medians?

Should the Columbia City Council approve an ordinance to keep people off medians?

Yes

4

No

1

Yes

2 Comments
Steve Baumann
1
Steve Baumann

The fact there is not already one or any attempt at common sense enforcement speaks volumes in it's own right. Maybe we need another department and a 10 year study.......

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Fred
0
Fred

We used to have government funded mental institutions that would have handled this, but Reagan handed this off to the states who didn't have the money to continue funding.

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Max
Max

They spent all of the money on the Left leaning group.

No

1 Comment
Zaos Gonzolez
0
Zaos Gonzolez

If the City passes this, the homeless will not go away. They will move into the surrounding neighborhoods. Your children will step over the homeless as they walk to school and you will hear screaming all night long..

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Steve Baumann
Steve Baumann

It's about safety

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