Yet, the Trump administration is undoing a century of hard work in education at the DOE and UH.
Public schools help to create a stable and more equitable society for all of us. We must rally around public education and halt the current trend to dismantle this critical piece of our democracy. It is time for us to collectively invest, with our taxpayer dollars, energy, and voices, in the tremendous work of public educators.
Public schools provide infrastructure for different communities to engage with one another in productive ways. As a former Waiʻanae Elementary School teacher who now helps prepare future teachers, I’ve seen firsthand how public education creates opportunities for interaction across communities — essential in our current climate of siloed information systems.
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