Let’s say you have a starving child.
You take out a knife, a fork and a spoon. You hand her a cup.
This isn’t what she needs.
She needs food. She needs water.
But the utensils seem a precursor to meeting those needs.
That’s what the Department of Education has always been – a tool and a promise.
But now the Trump administration wants to do away with even that polite fiction.
Two weeks ago, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos announced the plan to merge the Education and Labor departments.
The reason you may not have heard much about it – beside the fact that bigger stories have overshadowed it like the forced separation of undocumented children and parents at the border, coercing kids into immigration court without parents or even legal counsel and then locking them up in cages in detention centers – is that the plan has…
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