United States: Education Unions Denounce Trump's Attacks on Students, Teachers, Schools, Academic Freedom, Civil Rights, Public Education, Democracy, and Even School Lunches for Vulnerable Children
14 February 2025 | Education International
Educators in the United States are standing up to an avalanche of measures by the new administration of President Donald Trump, who has put privatization, dismantling the Department of Education, attacking immigrant students and families, abolishing civil rights, and restricting academic freedom at the core of his education agenda.
Trump has unleashed a series of directives that jeopardize the right to education in the United States, including an executive order to illegally funnel federal dollars to private schools and strip public school students of vital resources, gutting federal funding for students with disabilities, allowing immigration raids in school areas, targeting educators for how they teach history, cutting research, and curbing funding for school lunches for vulnerable students…