Educators in the U.S. are standing up to an avalanche of measures by the new administration of President Donald Trump, who has put privatization, dismantling the Department of Education, attacking Immigrant students and families, abolishing Civil Rights and restricting academic freedom at the core of his education agenda. Trump has unleashed a series of directives that jeopardize the right to education in the country, including an Executive Order to illegally funnel Federal dollars to private schools and strip public school students of vital resources, gutting Federal funding for students with disabilities, allowing immigration raids in school areas, targeting Educators for how they teach history, cutting research and curb funding for school lunches for vulnerable students. According to the National Education Association, "since Inauguration Day, the White House has issued reckless, destructive and even illegal directives to destabilize public schools and target some of our most vulnerable students." This was echoed by the American Federation of Teachers as expressed by their President, Randi Weingarten, who explained that "in the United States, we face an authoritarian threat unlike anything we have seen in our lifetimes. President Donald Trump is swiftly implementing destructive, dehumanizing and undemocratic dictates."

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