First on CNN: Trump administration ending Michelle Obama's girls education program
Source: CNN
By Kevin Liptak, CNN White House Producer
Updated 2:02 PM ET, Mon May 1, 2017
Washington (CNN)The Trump administration is discontinuing a signature girls education initiative championed by former first lady Michelle Obama, according to officials.
The "Let Girls Learn" program, which she and President Barack Obama started in 2015 to facilitate educational opportunities for adolescent girls in developing countries, will cease operation immediately, according to an internal document obtained by CNN.
While aspects of the initiative's programming will continue, employees have been told to stop using the "Let Girls Learn" name and were told that, as a program unto itself, "Let Girls Learn" was ending.
"Moving forward, we will not continue to use the 'Let Girls Learn' brand or maintain a stand-alone program," read an email sent to Peace Corps employees this week by the agency's acting director Sheila Crowley.
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/01/politics/trump-michelle-obama-girls-education/index.html
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)onetexan
(13,078 posts)and anti-women it naturally follows that they're now taking away funding for girls education.
Me.
(35,454 posts)Bleacher Creature
(11,258 posts)NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)Dump saw "Girls" and "Learn" and had a fit. Girls don't need learning.
riversedge
(70,407 posts)spirited decision??
niyad
(113,734 posts)that the Obamas accomplished in any area.
destruction is the only tool this madman has.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)LeftInTX
(25,707 posts)redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)He wants to wash the White House of anything that even begins to say "The Obama's did this".
mtngirl47
(992 posts)eShirl
(18,506 posts)OKNancy
(41,832 posts)spiderpig
(10,419 posts)Answering my own question - no.
Cretin knows Obama is a brazillion times the human being he could ever hope to be. Sad, pathetic, puny little Donald. Just go away.
Judi Lynn
(160,656 posts)demmiblue
(36,911 posts)Solly Mack
(90,795 posts)lovemydogs
(575 posts)once in office was to wipe out all laws and programs that were by Obama (and Michelle)
I never thought he was about wanting to do anything other then enrich himself and destroy anything that was Obama.
Freethinker65
(10,088 posts)I am so sick of the utter vindictiveness of this asshole. Starting to think the dossier pee party was real.
elleng
(131,288 posts)'While aspects of the initiative's programming will continue, employees have been told to stop using the "Let Girls Learn" name and were told that, as a program unto itself, "Let Girls Learn" was ending.
"Moving forward, we will not continue to use the 'Let Girls Learn' brand or maintain a stand-alone program,"'
riversedge
(70,407 posts)http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/01/politics/trump-michelle-obama-girls-education/index.html
......"Let Girls Learn" was an inter-governmental initiative run primarily at the Peace Corps and the United States Agency for International Development. A spokesman for the Peace Corps said Monday the agency would continue its efforts toward girls' education.
"The Peace Corps continues to prioritize girls' education and empowerment programming," the spokesman said. "Girls' education and empowerment has been a hallmark of our work over the past 56 years and we look forward to continuing those efforts with our interagency partners. We remain dedicated to the passionate work of our volunteers and staff to empower and educate girls in their communities."
Tina Tchen, who served as Obama's chief of staff during her time in the White House, said the end of "Let Girls Learn" was a disappointment given a global recognition that educating young women could help improve conditions across developing nations.
"We felt it was important to have a branded campaign that drew attention to those issues, and we found that when we did it, we had extraordinary support," Tchen said. "I think it's unfortunate to not continue with the branded campaign. We think that this is an issue that has bipartisan support, it's really not a Republican or Democratic issue."
Tchen said the benefits of the program, which drew upon private sector support as well as government dollars, outweighed the costs. She noted that a development program launched by President George W. Bush to combat global HIV/AIDS, PEPFAR, had been maintained and expanded by the Obama administration.................
MyOwnPeace
(16,946 posts)for one of the posts so that I could give a positive response for the response given.
Sorry - ALL of them get the - such a critical and important message - and so well addressed by ALL of the responders to this point (and I'd expect more to follow).
riversedge
(70,407 posts)Michele Obama program being dismantled.
First on CNN: Trump administration ending Michelle Obama's girls education program
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By Kevin Liptak, CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/01/politics/trump-michelle-obama-girls-education/index.html
...................News of the program's end came the same day President Donald Trump's agriculture secretary, Sonny Perdue, was visiting an elementary school in suburban Virginia to announce changes to another initiative spotlighted by the former first lady, healthy school lunches.
Perdue was set to unveil a rule change "providing regulatory flexibility for the National School Lunch Program" during a visit to Catoctin Elementary School in Leesburg. Like "Let Girls Learn," improving the nutritional quality of school meals was a major focus of Obama's during her tenure as first lady.
It wasn't immediately clear how Perdue's announcement would alter the nutritional makeup of school lunches nationwide, though health advocacy groups warned that backtracking could prove dangerous for children.
"Rather than altering the current path forward, we hope the agency focuses more on providing technical assistance that can help schools get across the finish line, if they haven't done so already," said American Heart Association CEO Nancy Brown...................
onecaliberal
(32,967 posts)I hate these vile fucks
NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)so, he has to go after something that Michelle Obama started and is near and dear to her. What a petty little man.
Turbineguy
(37,391 posts)Trump loves the poorly educated, since they are the sort that vote for him and come to his rallies.
applegrove
(118,874 posts)nations expand exponentially but they don't want to educate girls which is the surest way to ensure women have 1.7 children.
underpants
(182,987 posts)You empty soulless....person
underthematrix
(5,811 posts)Obama Foundation. POC nations understand the Trumps have a very bad case of #MelaninEnvy #MOEnvy and #PBOEnvy. We get it.
This right here is all that matters. And this why they hate the Obamas.
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