Weird: NC State Implements Hiring Freeze Due To Federal Money Freeze

Trump and Elon are just so awful!

NC State hiring freeze: Faculty, staff positions on hold amid federal budget uncertainty

North Carolina State University Executive Vice Chancellor Warwick Arden told college deans, vice provosts and senior vice provosts on Friday that he was implementing an immediate “pause on all hiring activities” in response to uncertainty about the federal budget.

“Given the uncertain impacts of the presidential administration’s Executive Orders and guidance, the potential shut down of the federal government on March 14, and financial challenges that the state government is dealing with, leadership is becoming increasingly concerned with our budgets over the next year or two,” Arden wrote in part in a memorandum. (snip)

The Trump administration has issued dozens of executive orders, some of which involve freezing federal grants and loans that go to college campuses. Woodson told WRAL News that his university receives more than 400 federal grants and contracts. The university received $416 million in federal funding in 2023-24.

The freeze only covers NC State, not the rest of the UNC university system. And then there’s

Teachers fear shuttering Department of Education will diminish vital programs

Heather Stambaugh, a high school teacher in rural Ohio, said she sees the impact of federal funding every day in her classrooms.

It opens up opportunities for individual aides to work one-on-one with high-need students, she said, or to lead small group learning sessions that help students achieve “light bulb” moments they may not have otherwise.

“At the end of the day, this is the next generation of doctors and lawyers, business executives,” Stambaugh told ABC News. “But they’re not going to have as many opportunities if we don’t have enough staff and we don’t have the tools.”

Federal funds from the Department of Education support programs, resources and sometimes even staffing to address educational barriers faced by low-income, low-performing, disabled and rural students, among others.

If the department is dismantled, as President Donald Trump and some Republican lawmakers have said they hope to do, public school K-12 educators fear these programs could be diminished.

Here’s the problem in both related cases: schools are way, way, way too dependent on federal money. And guidance and control, of course. That money should be kept closer to home, where it can be watched and audited. Do we know what that taxpayer money is being used for? Does anyone in the federal government check, or, do they say “here’s a bunch of money, have fun”? This is why the size of the federal government workforce needs to be reduced, why their control of far away, unknown schools and everything associated needs to be drastically reduced.

Isn’t 46 Years Of Failure Enough? Time To Kill The Education Dept.

Good article, you’re welcome to read it. And, for Democrats who love the ED, consider that enabling all that federal control means that a president like Donald Trump can come in with a chainsaw, because he has that authority. He can put out Executive Orders restricting federal funding to schools that push the transcrazy agenda. I don’t agree with the gender confused agenda, but, shouldn’t that be up to the individual states? That’s why the Constitution was written in a specific manner.

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