San Antonio, TX — President Donald Trump is putting action behind his words and making good on a promise he made in 2023 pledging to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education. The pledge has sparked concern in some, while others are supporting the President.
Ovidia Molina, the president of the Texas State Teachers Association says dismantling the department puts all students at risk, especially the most vulnerable.
“We have special education programs that our children with disabilities who need more assistance, we would get funding for that to be able to give resources to our students,” Molina said.
Meagan Kirk, a mother of eight, is scared to lose those resources because three of her children have disabilities.
“If the funding is going to be cut special ed training is going to be cut,” Kirk said. “Special ed training is important.”
Kirk says her 8-year-old son Jett’s education is already suffering because he was recently diagnosed with a brain tumor.
“He is homebound,” Kirk said. “I can see that program being cut immediately. Oh, the kid’s too sick to come to school so he’s probably too sick to learn. We’re not going to pay a teacher to go to the house.”
The mother of 8 is also concerned about cuts to technology grants that helped provide her non-verbal daughter Maddie-Joe a communication device.
“That is her way of communication,” Kirk said. ‘If schools lose those grants, and that funding, that’s literally taking her voice away.”
Kris Coons Bexar County’s Republican Party Chairwoman is also a mother of a special needs student, and she says she supports the changes President Donald Trump is proposing.
“I would like to see what happens,” Coons said. “Let’s take a step back and don’t be fearful of the things that people are throwing out there when we haven’t seen the specifics yet.”
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