The Ladder Pulled Up: How the Supreme Court and Trump’s Budget Gut Public Education and Entrench Inequality
How Two July Decisions Threaten to Collapse the Ladder of Educational Opportunity
On July 4, President Trump signed his “One Big Beautiful Bill”, the 2026 federal budget, into law. Ten days later, on July 14, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority, in a shadow‑docket ruling, cleared the way for his administration to begin dismantling the Department of Education.
In less than two weeks, these two actions delivered a devastating blow…
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