SHARE YOUR STORY! How have government attacks impacted your public school? TAKE ACTION

Dear Friend,

We did it! 🎉 Thanks to your incredible advocacy, the Trump administration has been forced to release over $5 billion in critical public education funding that had been unjustly frozen for weeks. [1] Your signatures, your stories, your voice made this happen. Thank you.

In fact, the release of frozen funds came after a wave of public pressure, and yes, that includes YOU. [2]

But while this freeze has ended, the threat to our public schools is far from over. 

That’s why we need YOUR story about how public education has helped you, your kids, your family, or your community. Importantly, we also want to hear how these attacks on public schools are negatively impacting you and your community too. 

The administration’s newly proposed budget would eliminate many of the same programs they just unfroze, programs that fund mental health support, special education, and Title I resources for low-income schools.[3] Their plan? Replace it with a block grant. Deceptively these block grants are a much smaller single pot of money that states can spend with almost no accountability or equity protections. [4]

Let’s be clear: Block grants are bad. They lower the amount of funds for schools, dilute protections for vulnerable students, open the door for political misuse of funds, and leave families with fewer tools for fairness in education.

Share your story about how public schools have been helpful, and, importantly, about how these attacks on schools are damaging, here.

Wondering what to share? Tell us how these attacks on public education affect you, your child, your students, or your community. Whether it's underfunded classrooms, cuts to special education, staff shortages, or the harmful impact of voucher programs. We want to hear it.

Your stories help us speak truth to power. 

Sharing your experiences helps lawmakers, journalists, and the public understand the REAL cost of bad education policy. They make sure our children’s needs are not ignored. And they push forward solutions. In short: Your story is power and change in motion to help fuel policy corrections. (Thank you in advance for sharing!!)

Let’s keep the pressure on. The freeze may be over, but our movement is just getting started.

In powerful solidarity,

- Beatriz, Kelsey, Ruth, Kristin, and the MomsRising & MamásConPoder Team

References: 
[1] Billions in federal education funding unfrozen by Trump administration
[2] Trump administration will release more than $5 billion in frozen education funding | CNN Politics
[3] Trump admin releasing over $5 billion in frozen education grants : NPR
[4] Education Department says it will release billions in remaining withheld grant money for schools

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