Back in January, when President Donald J. Trump nominated top campaign contributor Betsy DeVos as his Education Secretary, the opposition was swift and mobilized. Charging that DeVos was unfit to hold the office since she had no experience working in public education and was a powerful advocate for charter schools, protestors blocked her from entering Jefferson Middle School Academy during her fourth day on the job. Yet in the four months since then, resistance efforts against Trump's secretary of education have often been overshadowed by other protest movements. And as the administration's actions to undo two signature programs of former first lady Michelle Obama promoting healthier school lunches proves, public education advocates' fears don't begin and end with Betsy Devos. On this week's TrumpWatch, host Jesse Lent discusses the state of the public school system under President Trump with Basir Mchawi, a Queens College professor and the host of WBAI's Education At The Crossroads.
