The GOP’s Education Scam: Slashing Schools While Saving the Rich

They’re gutting public education, killing student aid, and abandoning rural schools—while the wealthy cash in.

The Republican war on public education isn’t coming. It’s already here. Trump’s plan to dismantle the Department of Education (DOE), Linda McMahon’s role as its executioner, and Elon Musk’s budget-slashing Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) are gutting the institutions that keep working-class communities afloat.

For years, Republicans have preach…