Williams: Trump’s Ed Budget Masks Cuts as Flatlines and Makes Cuts That Devastate Kids

“Understand: Because this child lives here, in the United States, she is more likely to spend her early years living in poverty. She has about a 50 percent chance of needing public subsidies to provide her with lunch at school each day. Paradoxically, she is also more likely to struggle with obesity (and its attendant health risks). These facts shape her life. She carries them each day and, naturally, brings them to school — where she faces a host of further systemic challenges built into the American approach to addressing poverty and governing public education. If her family struggles with poverty, she is far too likely to attend segregated schools with other students whose families face similar challenges.”