We’re sharing information from the Network for Public Education – NPE about opposing Linda McMahon’s budget for the US Dept. of Education which will be before a Senate Subcommittee that Kansas Sen. Jerry Moran is on tomorrow (Tuesday) at 9 am Eastern. His office requests that constituents email concerns about the federal budget bill to his email portal. A reference to vouchers in the email will help their tracking: https://www.moran.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/connect…

Here’s information from NPE about what’s in the education budget that is problematic.

Linda McMahon…has just released the most brutal, calculated, and destructive education budget in the Department’s history.

She proposes eliminating $8.5 billion in Congressionally funded programs—28 in total—abolishing 10 outright and shoving the other 18 into a $2 billion block grant. That’s $4.5 billion less than those 18 programs received last year.

And it gets worse: States are banned from using the block grant to support the following programs funded by Congress:

Aid for migrant children whose families move frequently for agricultural work

English Language Acquisition grants for emerging English learners

Community schools offering wraparound services

Grants to improve teacher effectiveness and leadership

Innovation and research for school improvement

Comprehensive Centers, including those serving students with disabilities

Technical assistance for desegregation

The Ready to Learn program for young children

These aren’t just budget cuts—they’re targeted strikes. McMahon justifies cutting support for migrant children by falsely claiming the program “encourages ineligible non-citizens to access taxpayer dollars.” That is a lie. Most migrant farmworkers are U.S. citizens or have H-2A visas. They feed this nation with their backbreaking labor.

The attack continues in higher education:

Pell Grants are slashed by $1,400 on average; the maximum grant drops from $7,395 to $5,710

Federal Work-Study loses $1 billion—an 80% cut

TRIO programs, which support low-income students, veterans, and students with disabilities, are eliminated

Campus child care programs for student-parents are defunded

In all, $1.67 billion in student college assistance is gone—wiped out on top of individual Pell grant cuts.

And yet, McMahon increased funding for the federal Charter Schools Program to half a billion dollars for a sector that saw an increase of only eleven schools last year. Meanwhile, her allies in Congress are pushing a $5 billion private school and homeschool voucher scheme through the so-called Educational Choice for Children Act (ECCA).

This is not budgeting. It is a war on public education.

This is a blueprint for privatization, cruelty, and the systematic dismantling of opportunity for America’s children.

Originally posted to Facebook on 6/3/2025.