William Mathis: Trump’s education budget — a paradise lost?

Editor’s note: This commentary is by William J. Mathis, who is the managing director of the National Education Policy Center and vice chair of The Vermont State Board of Education. The views expressed here are his own and do not necessarily reflect the views of any group with which he is affiliated.
“But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropp’d mannaand could make the worse appear the better reason.”
— John Milton, Paradise Lost, II.I.112
We had a vision