For Black families across America, this year’s back-to-school season arrives not just with supply lists and schedule changes, but with the echo of something far more ominous: the slow and deliberate dismantling of public education as we know it.

According to the Associated Press, nearly 1,400 staff from the U.S. Department of Education have been laid off under the Trump administration’s plan to unravel federal oversight, breaking up the department’s core responsibilities and outsourcing them to other agencies. Additionally, an NPR segment noted that billions of dollars in K–12 funding, already approved by Congress, have been withheld, forcing school districts to slash programs that support literacy, STEM education and teacher development. The civil rights office, once tasked with protecti

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