First on CNN: Trump administration ending Michelle Obama's girls education program

[DonViejo]

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]

1. republican War on Women - Attack on Girls # x543ZQA37813

[onetexan]

35. yeap, given they're anti-science, anti-public education (with the appointment of DeVos)

and anti-women it naturally follows that they're now taking away funding for girls education.

[Me.]

2. Thank You For Your Concern Ivanka

[Bleacher Creature]

17. Just don't call her complicit!!

[NastyRiffraff]

3. Anyone surprised at this?

Dump saw "Girls" and "Learn" and had a fit. Girls don't need learning.

[riversedge]

20. Wonder if Ivanka--the WH adovate for Women as she brands herself to be--weighed in on this mean-

spirited decision??

[niyad]

4. the war on women and girls continues apace. this low-life cretin cannot abide ANYTHING

that the Obamas accomplished in any area.

destruction is the only tool this madman has.

[RKP5637]

5. I wonder, are Americans still happy they elected this bellicose asshole to office! n/t

[LeftInTX]

14. This is something his voters probably wanted.

[redstatebluegirl]

6. War on women and girls of course. However, this is about anything Obama.

He wants to wash the White House of anything that even begins to say "The Obama's did this".

[mtngirl47]

24. Yep, he has no new ideas--just erase Obama's eight years. n/t

[eShirl]

7. governing by spite

[OKNancy]

8. I hate them... absolutely hate their guts

[spiderpig]

9. Is there no end to this cretin's vitriol toward anything Obama?

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]

10. He's making breakthroughs daily in sinking to new lows. Vicious, petty, stupid. Right-wingers. n/t

[demmiblue]

11. Arseholes.

[Solly Mack]

12. Ivanka? Tell me again how your daddy respects women.

[lovemydogs]

13. I have long believed that Trump's real agenda

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]

15. Just get rid of the entire Peace Corps. and use the $$$ for bombs and use them for fun

I am so sick of the utter vindictiveness of this asshole. Starting to think the dossier pee party was real.

[elleng]

16. Not REALLY.

'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]

18. Meanness is donald's middle name.

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]

19. I was looking .......

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]

21. buried in this article--Trump adm giving more flexibility to schools for lunch programs-another Mich

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]

22. Is this what that poor excuse of a human ivanka meant by that piece of shit supporting women?

I hate these vile fucks

[NewJeffCT]

23. He failed stopping Obamacare...

so, he has to go after something that Michelle Obama started and is near and dear to her. What a petty little man.

[Turbineguy]

25. To be expected.

Trump loves the poorly educated, since they are the sort that vote for him and come to his rallies.

[applegrove]

26. Bunch of ****ers! They don't want the population in less developed

nations expand exponentially but they don't want to educate girls which is the surest way to ensure women have 1.7 children.

[underpants]

27. Nice job Ivanka

You empty soulless....person

[underthematrix]

28. Let Girls Learn will continue under the

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.

Link to tweet

[Doreen]

29. Next news: trump cements Michelles garden.

[BigmanPigman]

30. Ivanka's indoor voice apparently isn't being heard by Big Daddy.

[world wide wally]

31. I can't stomach anyone that would so much ch as share a bathroom with this malignant asshole

[Hekate]

32. Thanks, Ivanka!

[NBachers]

33. Thanks "alternative Progressive voters" and Hillary detractors.

[SummerSnow]

34. In Trumps world, girls do not need to learn. They just need to join beauty pagents