NCAE president Tamika Walker Kelly on Trump’s plan to eliminate the U.S. Department of Education

NCAE president Tamika Walker Kelly (Courtesy photo)

Among the many deeply controversial proposals emanating from Washington these days is the Trump administration’s announced plan to abolish the U.S. Department of Education. Though details remain extremely sketchy at this point, it doesn’t take a PhD to grasp that such a plan would have devastating impacts across the country — from kindergarten through college — given the millions of students who depend on federal education funding and programming.

Not surprisingly, the proposal has sparked outrage and spirited opposition from thousands of teachers, and recently we caught up with one of their leaders, North Carolina Association of Educators president Tamika Walker Kelly. And as Walker Kelly told NC Newsline’s Rob Schofield, she and her fellow teachers will be actively opposing the Trump scheme, as well as a new proposal here in North Carolina that would negatively impact already inadequate teacher incomes by raising state health plan premiums.

Click here to listen to our full interview with NCAE president Tamika Walker Kelly.