Your school is next

The Musk-Trump administration is trying to dismantle the Department of Education. We talked to scholar Eve L. Ewing about the long battle over schooling as a tool for control — or for liberation

Elon Musk’s coup came for the Department of Education last week.

With an executive order in the works calling for the agency’s elimination (a conservative goal since the department’s founding in 1979), employees were sent home on leave and Musk’s aides were granted access to its networks. Democratic members of Congress responded by attempting to enter t…