Education On The Line

← Education On The Line10 Dec 2025 · 36 min

How The Dept. of Education Can Be Saved from Trump Assaults

How The Dept. of Education Can Be Saved from Trump Assaults10 Dec 202536 min

Cut staff at the U.S. Education Dept. in half, and send programs they were overseeing to multiple other departments -- what could that possibly go wrong for students and schools? To examine what is at stake, veteran education journalist Louis Freedberg sits down with Skye Perryman, President and CEO of Democracy Forward, and Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, both of whom are at the forefront of efforts to save the Dept. of Education from extinctio...