Thursday, March 27, 2025

re: Trump abolishing the Department of Education

Trump, corporations, and charter schools are desperate to privatize our education system so they can profit off it.

Justice Democrats

Harris,

Last week, Donald Trump signed an illegal executive order to completely dismantle the federal Department of Education, just as outlined in Project 2025.

Elon Musk's DOGE already cut the Department of Education's staff in half and slashed funding for critical programs. Instead of addressing overcrowded classrooms, underpaid teachers, and schools struggling for basic resources, the Trump administration is manufacturing a crisis. They're lying about threats to education, using bans on transgender athletes and crackdowns on pro-Palestine students to clearly push their agenda of privatizing education also while failing to protect the civil rights of Black, LGBTQ+, and other vulnerable students from marginalized backgrounds.

This is a war on students being led by corporations and charter schools desperate to privatize our education system so they can profit off it.

Instead of a public education system that supports families with protections and financial aid, they want to privatize it all to line CEOs' pockets at the expense of students, especially kids with disabilities or who come from low-income families or rural areas. And with no clear plan for Pell Grants or the $1.5 trillion in student loan debt, the impact on vulnerable students will only worsen.

An attack on public education is an attack on the working class, Harris.

Trump doesn't have the authority to abolish a department like this — only Congress does. Justice Democrats' members are fighting back, but there are too many Democrats in the House and Senate taking money from charter schools and private education corporations.

We need to send more working-class candidates to fight for our students in Congress ASAP. Pitch in $5 or more before our end-of-quarter fundraising deadline on Monday to help us recruit and elect more public education champions →

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In solidarity,

Justice Democrats






 

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