CNET
What Trump’s DoE Closure Could Mean for Student Internet Access
President Donald Trump signed an executive order to eliminate the Department of Education. What does this mean for the future of student internet connectivity? We spoke with a few students and a teacher at Renaissance at Rand Middle School in Montclair, NJ, about their thoughts on the matter. #digitaldivide #middleschool #internetaccess #doe #education Subscribe to…
@Olivia-v1d8l
April 11, 2025 at 9:44 am
I am very grateful for the video.
🌶🌶 7 💥
@Olivia-x5n7f
April 11, 2025 at 9:44 am
Thank you for your creativity! Your videos are always interesting and add variety to my day.⌛️🫶🍏
@IlysePassmorere
April 11, 2025 at 9:45 am
My boyfriend said this video made his day better. Now he wants to try to do something similar👄
@user-me1mv4vy9q
April 11, 2025 at 9:48 am
I thought wuts taught was already up to the states? Doe just offers guidelines and funds them no?
@fortis17
April 11, 2025 at 9:56 am
Who do you think funds the special needs and IEP programs for kids? What about the research on how the kids are learning and developing compared to other “developed nations”?
@Venti2213
April 11, 2025 at 9:54 am
U people need to get over it . He won 😂🎉😊
@cliffordhamblen5477
April 11, 2025 at 5:17 pm
Joe Biden Spent many many $Billions that was supposed to bring broadband to the needy. So what happened to all that tax money.
@jimdavis6833
April 11, 2025 at 10:03 am
The government doesn’t pay for my internet service. Try your local library. Most have internet service for free.
@BrianHartman
April 11, 2025 at 1:20 pm
How exactly are schools going to use their local libraries for Internet access?
@jimdavis6833
April 12, 2025 at 12:04 pm
@ Or maybe the local school boards can come up with the necessary funds.
@cliffordhamblen5477
April 11, 2025 at 10:28 am
Montclaire NJ is an upscale, upper middle class town, close to where I live so I am sure 99% of those kids have broadband at home.
@BrianHartman
April 11, 2025 at 1:18 pm
I know that CNET is a tech channel, so I understand your focus on Internet access, but that’s only a small part of what the Department of Education did. This is going to affect poor and disabled students the most. The excuse was that they were sending the power back to the states, but the reality is that a lot of the things that the DoE did are just going to go away now. This wasn’t about the states. It was about cutting the budget to give more money to Trump’s benefactors.
@counterproductions1594
April 11, 2025 at 1:36 pm
You don’t need internet to teach a child math, reading, or history, etc.. internet is a luxury.
@gatzt3r
April 11, 2025 at 6:45 pm
That’s right! Send them to the Libraries! Wait… most are closed or closing due to lack of funding and due to a fall in popularity because of, you know, the internet.
@karinhart489
April 11, 2025 at 7:03 pm
In contrast to that school, consider the poor rural elementary students during the pandemic: families sitting in cars in the parking lot so kids could do homework on their phone 📱 using the school’s wifi.
@Supersaiyanbuddha
April 11, 2025 at 10:39 pm
Why don’t americans get universal internet access for free. They could even achieve that. Do Americans even get anything for free?