Trump’s education budget cuts are minimal

Cuts in federal spending typically draw indignation from those affected, and President Trump’s recent education budget proposal was certainly no exception. The teachers unions, especially, were loud, derisive and hyperbolic in their responses. American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten claimed the cuts were “manifestly cruel to children and catastrophic to public schools.” National Education Association President Lily Eskelsen García blamed Betsy DeVos, c