Senator Markey calls Education Department cruel and callous as teachers and parents worry

Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey says in floor remarks that he heard from terrified teachers, educators, and families concerned that laid-off teachers meant students would not receive needed services, and from parents who needed educational funding to ensure programs remained available, but at the end of the day, they knew this was about getting funding to voucherize the public school system, taking money from public schools and putting it into vouchers so private companies benefited from the funding while the remainder went to billionaires for tax breaks, with Trump, Musk, and McMahon's evil plan to lock the promise of education behind an ivory tower accessible only to those born into the right circumstances being just plain wrong, especially in Massachusetts, the birthplace of public education.