Opinion

As a Kansas public school teacher and parent, I am deeply concerned about ongoing attacks on public education, most recently through executive actions by the Trump administration that include eliminating the Department of Education and targeting the free speech of students. Halting federal support for our schools and students will ensure historically marginalized students do not receive equal opportunities, will take away resources such as student lunches and special education programming, and will stifle learning communities.

Over the past year and a half, America’s universities have faced mounting political and economic peril related to two issues: immigration policy and student protests over Israel’s war on Gaza. Meanwhile in that war, Israel has reduced Gaza’s universities to rubble, using aircraft and bombs provided by the United States.

President Donald Trump

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Republicans who want to strip public schools of funding, impoverish teachers and stunt learning opportunities for the littlest Kansans have accused educators of “fearmongering.”