PBS News Hour White House correspondent Laura Barron-Lopez joined the Wednesday edition of CNN’s Inside Politics to freak out about President Donald Trump’s plans to close, or at least downsize, the Department of Education. As Barron-Lopez tells it, Trump is trying to privatize public education, and shuttering the department will start a domino effect that will lead states to do the same and hurt “poor and people of color” the most.
Against the backdrop of the department cutting roughly half its staff, host Dana Bash declared, “I mean, we should know that already, no matter who is president, the way that education funding works is that the vast majority and policy, but both, is done at a local, state and local level.”
Barron-Lopez replied, without evidence, that eliminating the Department of Education is the first step in a…
