Trump’s defunding of the US Department of Education (DOE) is an attack on the entire working class, especially those who require the aid programs that the DOE has been able to provide under previous administrations. Free quality public education should be made available to every child no matter their race, disability, or socioeconomic status.

Children are meant to learn, not earn. Free quality public education should be made available to every child no matter their race or socioeconomic status. Attacks on public schools serve to widen class divisions, limit access to quality education to a privileged few, and reduce public education to nothing more than job training for working class children.