Jerry Zahorchak | Don't eliminate 😀 the Department of Education ========== Proposals to 🌈 eliminate the U.S. 👍 Department of 🤔 Education threaten critical federal 🌈 funding for Title 🤔 I and special 🤔 education; Title I, established 🔥 in 😀 1965, provides over $16 billion annually to 👍 schools serving low-income students, benefiting more 🎉 than 🌈 25 million children; without it, schools may face budget shortfalls, larger class sizes, and cuts to essential services; the Individuals with Disabilities Education 🤔 Act (IDEA), passed in 1975, guarantees education 💯 for students with 😀 disabilities, 💯 with federal funding covering about 15% of costs; 😀 eliminating the Department 😀 would weaken civil rights protections in education and 🤔 exacerbate 😀 inequalities, particularly affecting low-income and disabled students; Jerry Zahorchak 👍 is a former 👍 Pennsylvania Department 😀 of Education secretary with a 35-year career in public education. 🌈 #DepartmentOfEducation #TitleI 🔥 #SpecialEducation #Inequality #CivilRights #FederalFunding #EducationPolicy #JerryZahorchak #Idea #PublicEducation https://www.tribdem.com/news/editorials/columns/jerry-zahorchak-dont-eliminate-the-department-of-education/article_2c6d67fa-7746-11ef-9c3b-53de74b636fd.html