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Abolishing the Education Department would devastate vital funding for our neighborhood public schools, strip away essential civil rights protections for students, and put students with disabilities at risk. This move would also pave the way for increased privatization, threatening the stability of our local school buildings that have long been the heart of our community. We must protect our schools and the students they serve.
Call your Congress members today and tell them to protect our students - fight back against tax cuts for billionaires and save our public schools!
Privatization
pri·va·ti·za·tion
the transfer of a business, industry, or service from public to private ownership and control
Join AROS in a Day of Action to March Forth on March 4th to #ProtectOurKids
No matter your ZIP code or state of residence, the Trump administration wants to upend the public schools in your community. Utilizing terms such as efficiency, waste, ending “diversity, equity and inclusion”, and trimming government fat, Trump and his Co-President Elon Muck want to slash education funding throughout the US to make way for their tax cuts for millionaires, billionaires and wealthy corporations and privatize public education. These painful cuts for our most vulnerable students and their classrooms would rob 26 million students living in poverty of critical services and 7.5 million students with disabilities of legally protected educational support.
Beyond that, Trump and Musk's proposed cuts would eliminate career and technical education for 12 million students, threatening their job prospects and endangering our children’s futures.
Coupled with state-based book bans, anti-LGBTQIA legislation, measures to re-write history and attempts to privatize our public schools happening throughout the country, the Trump administration's plan to abolish the Department of Education will endanger our students, their families and American democracy, and that is why we must fight back!
The stakes couldn’t be higher:
26 million vulnerable students in every school district-rural, suburban, and urban-could lose critical services.
7.5 million students with disabilities could lose access to special education support.
10 million students from working-class families could see college become unaffordable.
12 million students may lose access to career and technical education programs vital for their future.
Take Action with AROS
Take Action with AROS
On March 4th, 2025, AROS groups across the country will take part in a Day of Action to #ProtectOurKids.
AROS believes in starting at the grassroots to build a national campaign for full funding. In cities nationwide, AROS and partners are working to change district and state policies and practices to serve students better. These policy reforms would benefit from additional funds to be successful and sustainable, but many of our cities and states refuse to increase education budgets. We can only win funding increases at the federal level if we work as one cohesive unit. We can bring national funding priorities to the center stage through local actions.
