U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), a former preschool teacher and current senior member of the Senate Education Committee, joined her Senate colleagues at a press conference to speak about the extreme education agenda that Donald Trump and his allies have laid out for a second Trump administration.
“As a former preschool teacher—I have to say that I think a preschool student could’ve written a better education agenda,” Senator Murray warned. “It is unimaginable to me that we would cut our school funding in half, or fire teachers, or leave kids in the dust. It is unthinkable to me that we would shutter the Department of Education and tell our parents, and students, and teachers, and schools across the country, ‘Sorry you’re on your own!’”
Murray added, “Our public schools are the backbone of our country’s strength, and it is the foundation of our future. Fighting for that future—fighting for our …