Attorney General Lopez Leads Fight to Stop Trump From Shutting Down the Department of Education

Maraida Caraballo Martínez has been an educator in Puerto Rico for 28 years and the director of the Jaime C. Rodríguez Community School for seven. She never knows how much money she will receive from the government each year because it is not based on the number of children enrolled. One year she received $36,000; another year, $12,000. But for the first time as an educator, Caraballo noticed a big difference during the Biden administration. Tha…

Trump signs an illegal executive order to dismantle the Department of Education What will be affected: More than $86 million in Title 1 grants, 180,000 teacher positions, 26 million students from disadvantaged communities across the country. What is the Congressional Hispanic Caucus doing about it? “Education has served as the backbone of our country for generations. We will challenge these actions by Donald Trump and Elon Musk in court and do e…

500 march in Tucson to defend the Department of Education and federal workers

Tucson, AZ - On March 30, educators, labor unions and community members marched in downtown Tucson to tell the Trump administration, “H...

By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN Maribel Gardea spent years trying to convince public schools in San Antonio, Texas, that her 14-year-old son, with cerebral palsy and unable to speak, needed a device to recognize looks in the classroom. He participated in numerous meetings with staff members, including the district's technology expert, asking for the device that would allow his child to communicate with eye movement instead of using a mouse or keyboa…

Attorney General Lopez Leads Fight to Stop Trump From Shutting Down the Department of Education

Attorney General Lopez led a coalition of 20 other attorneys general in filing a motion for a preliminary injunction as part of its lawsuit to stop the dismantling of the Department of Education (ED). On March 13, Attorney General Lopez and the coalition filed the lawsuit after the Trump administration announced plans to eliminate 50 percent of ED’s workforce. Following a March 20 Executive Order directing the closure of ED and President Trump’s…

Trump loves the poorly educated - Nashville PRIDE, Inc.

The president’s cuts to the Department of Education risk undermining education, civil rights, and workforce development, disproportionately affecting marginalized communities and enabling manipulation through ignorance. The post Trump loves the poorly educated appeared first on Nashville PRIDE, Inc..