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Trump’s Massive ED Cuts 😡
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This week, the Trump administration made massive cuts and layoffs in the US Dept. of Education — stifling its ability to support public schools and our students. The Trump administration is gutting resources that help students learn, threatening to strip teachers of necessary funding, and abandoning its responsibility to ensure every child has access to a quality education. And they’re attempting an end run around Congress, despite Trump’s Education Secretary Linda McMahon saying shuttering the Dept. of Ed is the duty of Congress [[link removed]] . [[link removed]]
Why does it matter? Make no mistake — this is not just an attack on “bureaucracy,” and it’s not in any way going to make anything more efficient. Let’s call this what it is: a direct assault on millions of students, teachers, and families. Trump’s actions have already triggered mass layoffs, with thousands of Dept. of Ed employees losing their jobs overnight [[link removed]] . Many of those laid off are lawyers who work to oversee and protect the civil rights of America’s students. Others run programs to fund school meals, after-school tutoring, and major programs like IDEA for students with disabilities and Title I for low-income students.
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💥 Mayes files suit against Trump’s ED Cuts: AZ Attorney General Kris Mayes joined a lawsuit [[link removed]] with 21 Democratic attorneys general who sued the Trump administration on Thursday over its firing of more than 1,300 Dept. of Ed workers, saying that the dismissals were “illegal and unconstitutional.” The cuts to the department’s staff will cause a delay in “nearly every aspect” of K-12 education in their states, the attorneys general said in their suit. Therefore, the coalition is seeking a court order to stop what it called “policies to dismantle” the agency, arguing that the layoffs are just a first step toward its destruction. The attorneys general argued in their Education Department suit that the executive branch “does not have the legal authority to unilaterally incapacitate or dismantle it without an act of Congress.” [[link removed]]
What are the impacts for Arizona?
This means federal education funding streams are left in limbo, and local principals, school board members, and superintendents will be left scrambling as schools across the country face enormous uncertainty about the resources they rely on to get kids what they need. In a state as dramatically underfunded as Arizona, any cuts or freezing of federal funds is a death knell for public schools. Arizona could lose $957,000,000 a year in Title I, IDEA, Impact Aid, and other grants. [[link removed]]
👀 Watch as Brahm Resnik explores what the gutting of the Dept. of Ed will mean for Arizona [[link removed]] — and Supt. Tom Horne stakes his claim that he should be in charge of allocation of any federal funds “returned” to the state. Whether the Legislature or the ADE assumes this role, we can be sure that funding will not be equitably distributed — and funding will most certainly be funneled to private schools via vouchers.
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It’s about vouchers and privatizing schools (of course). [[link removed]]
The Trump administration is falsely framing dismantling the Dept. of Ed as “returning control to states.” In reality, that means block grants, one of MAGA’s scams to defund schools. We’ve seen this playbook before: block grants voucherize funding, allowing politicians to slash public education funding while diverting federal funds to private schools with no accountability. Block grants are a scam that will defund public education and leave struggling schools even worse off, depriving students — especially those in underfunded urban, rural, and suburban communities — of the support they need to succeed.
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