Randi Weingarten

The massive reduction in force at the Education Department is an attack on opportunity that will gut the agency and its ability to support students.

We will not sit by while billionaires like Elon Musk and Linda McMahon tear apart public services piece by piece.

If we want America to be a nation of 'explorers, builders, innovators [and] entrepreneurs,' as Trump said in his inaugural address, then logically it follows that we should be investing more in education, not less.

Diverting billions from our children to pay for tax cuts that primarily benefit the wealthy is a callous decision that short-changes everyone.

The American people did not vote for chaotic and reckless attacks on public schools.

The Department of Education, and the laws it is supposed to execute, has one major purpose: to level the playing field.

The directive to 'return decision-making to the states' fails the smell test.

Trying to abolish it — which, by the way, only Congress can do — sends a message that the president doesn't care about opportunity for all kids.

Don't use a 'war on woke' to attack the children living in poverty and the children with disabilities, in order to pay for vouchers and tax cuts for billionaires.

We're deeply concerned that her boss, Donald Trump, wants her to take a wrecking ball to the Department of Education and this nation's public schools.

Every worker deserves a safe a secure retirement. Just this week we saw Tesla stock continue to sink faster than a Cybertruck in quicksand.

Our concern is that because of the politics, and the proximity Mr. Musk has to Mr. Trump, they are standing down on this rather than doing their jobs.