Rep. Jahana Hayes, D-Conn., the 2016 Nationwide Trainer of the Yr, launched the Congressional Trainer Caucus to begin Trainer Appreciation Week 2025.
Hayes mentioned the caucus goals to supply a devoted platform for educators serving in Congress to seek out widespread sense options to addressing the tutorial problems with in the present day, in accordance with a launch from Hayes’ workplace.
The caucus additionally launches in direct response to “unprecedented assaults” towards public schooling and Trump’s pledge to shutter the U.S. Division of Training.
Rep. Jahana Hayes speaks through the Home Democrats’ post-caucus assembly information convention within the Capitol, Sept. 18, 2024.
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A fierce defender of public schooling, Hayes is one in all a number of educators in Congress and serves as a member of the Home Training and Workforce Committee. Hayes and a coalition of lawmakers who’ve been outspoken in regards to the administration’s mission to abolish the company have been denied entry to the division earlier this yr.
“What you’ll not do is shut down this division and deny entry to all of these kids wanted whereas we’re in Congress.” Rep. Hayes mentioned, talking at a press convention exterior the company.
“We won’t enable for Donald Trump and his allies to rob the piggy financial institution of the Division of Training and switch the funds that so lots of our kids must fund their rich, billionaire associates and all of those college alternative voucher applications,” Hayes added.
Congress can dismantle the Division of Training if 60 senators vote “sure” on laws concentrating on the company.
-ABC Information’ Arthur Jones II
