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GAO: Education Dept's RIF cost taxpayers $28M
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5718437-gao-education-department-layoffs/

More about the scary significance of the Carrington Event on the Sun:
https://geomag.bgs.ac.uk/education/carrington.html

We had to drive over to Queanbeyan to pick up an order at the farm shop there.
We don't get there very often so we took the opportunity to go for a bit of a wander by the river afterwards. I forgot how pretty it is.
#Queanbeyan #Australia

Idaho:
Legislature Week 2: Lawmakers Question Need for Educating SPED Students | Idaho Education Association
https://idahoea.org/news/all-news-articles/legislature-week-2-lawmakers-question-need-educating-sped-students

Google's experience in India has become a proving ground to scale AI in education, as the country accounts for the highest global usage of Gemini for learning (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/29/india-is-teaching-google-h…

India is teaching Google how AI in education can scale | TechCrunch
With the highest global usage of Gemini for learning, India is emerging as a key market shaping Google's approach to AI in education.

The challenge of moving special education out of the Education Department (Mackenzie Wilkes/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/29/advocates-push-for-education-department-to-keep-programs-for-children-with-disabilities-00669701
http://www.memeorandum.com/251129/p44#a251129p44

The less educated you are, the more likely you'll vote for Trump/MAGA.
And this is why Republicans:
▫️defund the Dept of Education
▫️ban books
▫️call college a scam
▫️tell people to go to trade schools
Two surveys from the WSJ & FOX News below:
#trump #education

Trump’s attack on higher education is being driven by a couple of different ideological and material forces.
First and foremost, authoritarian and fascist regimes historically have targeted various sectors of society.
If we look at fascist Spain, fascist Italy, or Nazi Germany, or if we look at Victor Orbšn’s Hungary and his fascist or illiberal regime,
what we see are three sectors that are clearly always identified and targeted.
One is the press,
one is the…

Trump’s Attempts to Control Higher Education Follow a Familiar Fascist Playbook
Trumpism has been aided by divestment that hollowed higher ed out from the core, AAUP President Todd Wolfson says.

George Mitchell's name removed from US-Ireland scholarship after Epstein files release (Mary Carolan/The Irish Times)
https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/education/2026/02/02/george-mitchells-name-removed-from-us-ireland-scholarship-after-epstein-files-release/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260202/p30#a260202p30