The USA is about to try to dismantle its national Department for Education:
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/06/politics/trump-education-department-shut-down-order/index.html
Education is what gives us all agency to operate in the world, to read & learn for ourselves, to navigate complex systems and to collaborate on building better ones. This is a power grab.
In many Kentucky counties, 117 out of 120 of which are Red, the school system is the biggest employer.
It will absolutely collapse without the federal funds that keep them open.
All these people will lose their jobs, will only be hired back at sub-living wage rates, and the kid's learning will be disrupted for months if not years while the state legislators try to get fairy tale spewing for-profit scammers to take it all over.