A proposed federal budget would cut $12 billion from public education, including $4.5 billion from after-school programs, technology and teacher training. The proposal would redirect taxpayer dollars to unaccountable private and charter schools even as many charters close because of fraud or declining enrollment. The cuts threaten neighborhood schools, teachers, and the resources that help all students succeed, and would undermine children’s future. Being 'woke' is characterized as a commitment to diversity, equity and inclusiveness, and as a corrective to exclusion of gays, transgender people, minorities, multinationals and some women. ICE arrests are described as kidnappings that stunned an Oakland neighborhood.
That's why I am alarmed by the Trump administration's proposal to slash $12 billion from public education, including $4.5 billion from these very programs. Instead of strengthening the public schools that serve the vast majority of American children, the administration is diverting taxpayer dollars into unaccountable private and charter schools even as many charters close due to fraud or declining enrollment. This is not education reform; it is an effort to dismantle public schools.
I'm not sure anyone, especially MAGA types, can define woke, but I do know that that movement was a hard-fought attempt to include more people under the great American tent but now for the great swing of the pendulum to the right. Donald Trump and his acolytes miss the irony that their views on society are now every bit as exclusive. Gays, transgender folks, minorities, multinationals and, to a degree, women are being penciled out of the American dream.
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