educrat

English

Etymology

Blend of educator +‎ bureaucrat

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛd͡ʒəkɹæt/

Noun

educrat (plural educrats)

1. (derogatory) An official or administrator in a school district or government body.
   • 2020, Adriana LaGrange, Refusing to spend adequate money to protect Alberta kids during a pandemic:

     This is a great example of an educrat, getting in the way of what's right to push a failed political ideology.

   • 2000, Laura Ingraham, The Hillary trap: looking for power in all the wrong places:

     It has everything to do with the educrat industry whose grip on our children Hillary is helping to maintain.

   • 2002, Marsh Kaminsky, Onie:

     Many educrats make much of their income and build their reputations trying to fix the problems they themselves created with their dopey educational methodologies.

   • 2003, G Gordon Liddy, When I Was a Kid, This Was a Free Country:

     As a result of the misguided educrats, college students across the country now spend much of the first two years in remedial classes […]

Related terms

• educracy

Anagrams

• Decatur, curated, traduce