United States Department of Education

So the feds under President Trump.

downsizing the department of education if not outright eliminating it and a lot of questions raised that and i'm probably okay if you get rid of it then how do we get our money does it just go straight to the states and whatnot um and if that's the case um do we see less lovely levies or more great questions she is julie hartman she is uh with the the boss of the department of education uh joining the show now to discuss on 700 wlw julie welcome are you

I'm great, Scott.

Thanks so much for having me.

Yeah,

thank you.

When you hear about the pushback that Trump wants to eliminate the Department of Education and you think, OK, the schools are all going to collapse and fall down upon themselves, that's kind of a false narrative for sure.

What can you tell parents that are worried about that scenario?

And a number of those right here in southwest Ohio.

So the feds under President Trump... downsizing the department of education if not outright eliminating it and a lot of questions raised that and i'm probably okay if you get rid of it then how do we get our money does it just go straight to the states and whatnot um and if that's the case um do we see less lovely levies or more great questions she is julie hartman she is uh with the the boss of the department of education uh joining the show now to discuss on 700 wlw julie welcome how are you

I'm great, Scott.

Thanks so much for having me.

Yeah,

thank you.

When you hear about the pushback that Trump wants to eliminate the Department of Education and you think, OK, that schools are all going to collapse and fall down upon themselves, that's kind of a false narrative for sure.

What can you tell parents that are worried about that scenario?

A lot of people will be harmed if we have a shortage of a nursing workforce.

We have to advocate for that profession because right now it almost feels like, you know, the Department of Education is trying to dismantle it.

Not only that, the immigration

barriers.

And second, fraud on programs or benefits administered by the Department of Agriculture, including the SNAP program.

The Department of Labor, Department of Health and Human Services, HUD, Department of Education, including student aid fraud, Department of Veterans Affairs and the SBA.

According to the press release, the program places a particular emphasis on submissions involving hospice, health care, home health care, daycare and special services fraud.

The program contains a novel feature in reward programs, which is to pay rewards once criminal charges are made public before the government actually collects any money.

Absolutely unneeded.

The Department of Education is just send the education back to the states.

Let Arkansas run its education department, the system the same way, because what the students here in the south need probably a whole lot different than what they need up in Washington state.

Right.

They do the same kind of reports.

It's required to be a Department of Education school.

Yeah.

I'm not fine with just the phone calls.

I find that so interesting, with a focus on making sure people who are often overlooked have access and a seat at the table.

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This whole idea of Doge and we're going to create efficiencies, you know, turns out to be completely erroneous and, of course, ideologically driven and The destruction of certain agencies wholesale, whether it's USAID essentially disappearing from the face of the earth.

But also what's been happening in the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services has a terrible impact on the public.

So I don't have to say everybody knows that it's much easier to destroy than to build.

So this is not going to happen overnight, actually, to bring back what Trump has effectively destroyed in terms of the workings of government.