DoomsdaysCWJun 2

Wave Goodbye to the Last Normal Year for #AmericanSchools

Thanks to Trump’s “#BigBeautifulBill,” the ’26–’27 school year will look wildly different.

By Adam Laats, June 01, 2026

"As schools send children home for the summer, we need to recognize a frightening fact: This could be the last year of public schooling the way we’ve known it. Donald Trump’s new school funding scheme, pushed through as part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, will kick in during the middle of the next school year, in January 2027. It’s going to create a financial tsunami for public schools. The real tragedy is that there’s no mystery to it: We already know what will happen, because the scheme is not really new at all. It brings us back to the bad old days, to the failed and inadequate divided school budgets from before the Civil War. Trump’s plan brings back the devasting problem that our modern public school systems were designed to fix."

Read more:
https://slate.com/life/2026/06/donald-trump-school-vouchers-education-funding-bbb.html

#TrumpSucks #USPol #BigUglyBill #DumbingUsDown #USEducation #PublicSchools

Financial Hell Is About to Break Loose in American Schools

School funding is about to drop off a fiscal cliff. Costs will stay the same. What then?

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Show threadQuasit
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And just in case anyone is wondering, Trump's changes will NOT be undone by the Democrats, even if they get the opportunity. Maybe a few incredibly minor cosmetic changes, but nothing that will cost their oligarch paymasters anything.
Jun 16 at 2:44amWeb
Show threadChaz Haws3d ago
@Quasit @DoomsdaysCW Yep, #bothsides just as bad, the side that is destroying everything is surely no worse than the side that failed to stop them from a minority position.