Multiple programs for students and families got the ax last week as the Trump administration and a far-too-pliant Congress strove to make ordinary people pay for a proposed $4.5 trillion tax cut for billionaires.

The administration terminated nearly half the staff at the U.S. Department of Education, jeopardizing its ability to perform legally required functions ranging from enforcing civil rights laws to processing financial aid forms to supporting students with disabilities.

“Gutting the Department of Education will send class sizes soaring, cut job training programs, make higher education more expensive and out of reach for middle-class families, take away special education services for students with disabilities, and gut student civil rights protections,” said NEA President Becky Pringle.

In addition, the U.S. Department of Agriculture terminated two programs providing $1 billion for public schools and food banks to buy food from local farms and ranches, according to media reports.

“Children across this country are going to be harmed,” NEA Executive Director Kim Anderson said in an interview on MSNBC. “They have made no bones about their agenda, which is to promote vouchers and to dismantle public education.”

Meanwhile, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) confirmed that millions of children could lose access to healthcare as well. The numbers clearly show that the GOP House budget resolution demands deep cuts in Medicaid/CHIP—as much as $880 billion. The 38 million children covered by the program comprise nearly half its total enrollment.

On Wednesday, March 19, join educators, parents, and allies for a “walk-in” at a school near you. Find out more here.

In solidarity,