The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) isn’t holding back. CBC Chair Yvette Clarke and members of the caucus issued a fiery statement condemning President Trump’s latest move to gut the Department of Education. A decision they say will devastate communities across the country, especially Black and Brown students.
It comes just days after the firing of nearly half of the department’s staff and an executive order aimed at tearing down the agency further. The caucus says this is a direct attack on students, civil rights, and decades of progress.
They warned that dismantling will undercut protections for vulnerable students while crippling the government’s ability to enforce laws that ban racial and gender discrimination.
“In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that the ‘separate but equal’ doctrine established in Plessy v. Ferguson was unconstitutional. In the decades since, the Department of Education has played a vital role in ensuring equal access to education and enforcing desegregation laws,” Clarke said.
The CBC warned that President Trump’s executive actions “will make our schools more segregated and unequal.”
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