Federal Education News

Has become law

Approved by the legislature but has not become law

YES

NO

Affirmative action

the jones act

Subsidies for corn/HFCS

Disparate impact doctrine

Rent control

H1B caps

Social promotion in school

First-past-the-post voting

Federal subsidies for a negative-sum signaling arms race in higher education

Non-land property taxes

Buying a latte with bitcoin incurs capital gains because bitcoin counts as property instead of currency

Feds arresting people for plots that the feds planned and recruited them for (entrapment)

Payroll taxes

Sales taxes

Wage control

NO

YES

NO

NO

YES

YES

YES

Abolish the department, converting all expenditures into grants to state departments of education and removing all federal control over how the money is spent.

Abolish the department, transferring everything it does to other parts of the federal government.

Abolish the department, converting all its expenditures into a federal voucher program, with the money going to whatever form of education the parents prefer, including a public school if they choose to send their child there.

Other

Remove the secretary from the cabinet, relabel things a bit, leaving the power and flow of money essentially the same.

Abolish the department and all its programs and expenditures.