In this episode, the Common Core Diva Lynne Taylor joins me as we take a look at the 3 card monty being performed by the Trump administration regarding the Department of Education and the merge with the Labor Department, all of it without a shred of constitutional authority.
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*Correction: Lynne mistakenly cited Eisenhower administration when it was LBJ’s administration that gave the US the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.
Blueprint to close USED and End Federal Education Mandates
Blueprint to Establish State Control of Education
1) Point #1: introduced in 2025 (4/7/25) and seen very little ‘action’ since. Three of the co-sponsors signed on the introduction day and two more in 2026.
So, why has the bill been given a recent ‘hail mary’ cry by some?
My guess? Mid-terms!
After all, it’s part of the illusion to shut down the US Dept of Ed.
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2) The Bill itself: https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/2691/text?s=1&r=1&hl=HR+2691
2a) The folks sponsoring or co-sponsoring:
HR 2916’s main sponsor is Rep. Barry Moore (AL).
He’s a member of the Freedom Caucus, too.
https://barrymoore.house.gov/about/committees-and-caucuses
And, here we may have the ‘smoking gun’ as to why HR 2691 is being dusted off & trotted out:
$$$:
https://alabamareflector.com/2026/07/06/spending-in-alabama-primary-elections-exceeds-40-million/
AL redistricted in the ‘nick of time’?
https://ballotpedia.org/Redistricting_in_Alabama_ahead_of_the_2026_elections
What about the rest of the US?:
https://ballotpedia.org/Redistricting_ahead_of_the_2026_elections
AND
https://www.cookpolitical.com/redistricting/2025-26-mid-decade-map
3) Rep. McGuire (VA) is a co-sponsor facing an upcoming primary.
https://www.vpm.org/elections/2026-06-18/election-2026-virginia-5th-congressional-district-mcguire
4) Rep. Gill (TX) doesn’t appear to be up for a mid-term race, but the entire state of TX has become a Trump battleground for power:
https://sanantonioreport.org/top-races-to-watch-2026-november-midterm-election/
(Gill information): https://ballotpedia.org/Brandon_Gill
5) Rep. Crane (AZ) is up for re-election in 2026 as well. He also is a member of the Freedom Caucus (covered that before):
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/eli_crane/456879
AND
https://crane.house.gov/about/committees-and-caucuses/
6) 2026ers (those co-sponsors who’ve recently signed on):
*Note: both are from SC and rank well in aligning most closely with Trump:
Norman is #1, Wilson #140:
https://www.gopscorecard.com/lawmakers?state=US&year=2024&filter=SC
7) Rep. Norman:
Doesn’t appear to be on the midterm ballots, but has been in Congress 9 years, established quite a reputation.
https://ballotpedia.org/Ralph_Norman
AND
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/ralph_norman/412738
(Note: Freedom Caucus member)
Rep. Norman is quite wealthy and is invested in this company:
(shocker: it’s a data company: https://www.quiverquant.com/)
8) Rep. Wilson:
His stance on education:
https://joewilson.house.gov/issues/education
He will also be facing a Nov 2026 political race:
8a) With the most recent news of the questionable health of McConnell and the death of Graham, look at who has already been put on the short list for Graham’s seat:
https://ijr.com/article/race-to-replace-lindsey-graham-begins-as-trump-hints-at-preferred-pick?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=ijr&utm_campaign=dlvrit&fbclid=IwdGRzaATA2RJleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR4CldRkgMaodfZcrSihPtzk_fr-3QhpyB26LAt5KQoNq8AiLuTeGM2jy9sC0w_aem_lgiAyNriKchpUierTlLAjA
(Rep. Norman, listed above!)
*Note: let’s also remember that McConnell was in office when ESSA (Every Student Succeeds Act) was made into federal law. This link will show “Every Child Achieves” which went on to become “Every Student Succeeds Act” https://www.republicanleader.senate.gov/newsroom/remarks/mcconnell-urges-support-for-bipartisan-every-child-achieves-act
8b) My research on education and ties to Sen. Graham:
https://www.commoncorediva.com/2020/07/20/getting-dirty-in-our-classrooms/
9) The hype began (begins):
https://hamiltonstrategies.com/2026/02/09/uspie-joins-rep-barry-moore-in-introducing-h-r-2691-to-return-education-to-the-states/
(Hamilton is a PA based public relation firm: https://hamiltonstrategies.com/more-about-hamilton-strategies/ )
https://www.cato.org/blog/introducing-end-fed-ed-watch
(*Note: Cato has long been on the school choice bandwagon, so be careful and read everything with a grain of salt)
https://www.uspie.org/support-hr-2691
(*Note: from the national ‘grassroots’ group itself, you’ll want to see their ‘blueprint’ for ‘returning education to the States’: https://www.uspie.org/uspie-blueprints)
**We’ll be looking at the blueprints**
This group tells you what lobbying groups are supporting the HR 2691:
https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-2691/
AND
Other lobbying efforts by the same group:
https://openamerica.io/lobbying/9f1140e1-1943-402c-8bc2-886cdee7730c/
10) The hidden stuff:
Pell Grants would remain ‘in-tact’ with HR 2691:
https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R45418
AND
https://www.ccdaily.com/2022/11/how-pell-grants-got-started/
*Currently, over 500 Congressional bills, reports, actions on Pells:
Back in 2021, I showed you the hype around the “experiment” using Pell Grants:
https://www.commoncorediva.com/2021/08/02/u-s-dept-of-education-our-pretended-savior/
11) William D. Ford Federal Direct Student Loan Program would also remain intact under HR 2661.
https://studentaid.gov/help-center/answers/article/federal-direct-loan-program
(*Note: what does this mean for parents and students? According to Harvard, it means you can borrow up to $20,500.00. Other strings? https://gsas.harvard.edu/financial-support/funding-and-aid/federal-student-aid/william-d-ford-federal-direct-student-loan )
Cornell University also explains Ford Federal Student Loans:
https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/34/685.100
12) Block Grants to the States will remain, according to HR 2691.
(*Note: from my Feb. 2016 article “FTF: A Chip Off the Education Block”:
How State Grants for public places and other funding is being manipulated and will continue to be thanks to the ESSA:
https://www.commoncorediva.com/2016/02/08/state-digital-education/ )
13) Congressional bills on Pells:
Introduced in 2025 & gone nowhere, this would exclude Pells from gross income:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/1610/text?s=1&r=7&hl=pell+grants
Also, from 2025 & gone nowhere, this would increase your months of Pell use:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1635/text?s=1&r=3&hl=pell+grants
Yet another from 2025 & inactive, this would increase Pells to match inflation (something I reported on in the archived article above):
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1666/text?s=1&r=2&hl=pell+grants
Just introduced in 2026 & has lots of support, Pells would ‘sustain’ folks & expand their power:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/4859/text?s=1&r=8&hl=pell+grants14) Related/archived, but also factors in:
https://www.commoncorediva.com/2020/04/22/b-s-for-parents/
14) Want to register support/opposition to HR 2691?
https://modernaction.io/bills/hr2691-119/action
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Bonus material provided by my website’s webmaster and from Anita Hoge’s vast research on Hidden strings & ties (*Note: I’ve researched the same things and articles on each can be found on my blog as well):
The Department of Labor’s WIOA Titles I and III.
Because Labor, not ED, runs the workforce training system, which both women identified as the actual control mechanism, the bill does not affect it in any way. According to Iserbyt’s framework, eliminating ED while maintaining DOL’s workforce pipeline preserves the engine while eliminating the decoy. The goal of Hoge’s Womb to Tomb was to explicitly link education and health reform “to the new workforce of the future.” The handoff between education and work was the goal, not a side effect.
[ https://newswithviews.com/betsy-devoss-socialist-dreams-push-charter-schools-part-1/ ]
(*Note: US Dept of Labor (7/526: https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/eta/eta20260707)
Head Start, community-schools-type programs, and school health functions at HHS. The “whole child” community school model, Medicaid billing for school mental health services for ages 0 to 21, and Promise Neighborhoods drawing whole families under case management were Hoge’s most persistent warnings, which she referred to as the “medicalization of schools.” All of the HHS-side infrastructure survives H.R. 2691 by definition. According to her model, the bill takes out the education part of the triad but leaves the health part, which she thought was the more invasive, fully functional.
[ https://newswithviews.com/Hoge/anita117.htm ]
Pell, Direct Loans, and the block grant at Treasury. Later on, Hoge worked on the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act (H.R. 4174), which she said would result in a “womb to workforce pattern” of merged data from every federal department, including healthcare, wages, and IRS records. The allocation formula in H.R. 2691 literally requires the Treasury Secretary to consult the IRS Commissioner in order to calculate each state’s share, placing student aid and the K-12 block grant within the Treasury. That is, in Hoge’s framework, the education finance function that is directly connected to the tax data agency. This cross-domain data linkage that she pointed out is now structural rather than incidental.
“The School of Tomorrow: ‘Womb to Tomb’ — A New Managed Economy” (1995, ~299 pages) https://archive.org/details/pdfy-gxDVy_qDb2rCps8M
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