What dismantling the Education Department means for students

教育部撤销对学生意味着什么

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2025-03-24

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Venezuelans were sent from the U.S. to El Salvador after the Trump administration alleged, without sharing evidence, that they belonged to a gang. The Washington Post’s Silvia Foster-Frau explains how the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 factors in.  Trump’s executive order to dismantle the Department of Education could hurt rural and low-income schools. Axios reports that states that voted for Trump might be hit the hardest.  Canada doesn’t have the same issues as the U.S. when it comes to egg prices. NPR lays out why.  Plus, Canada’s new prime minister called for a snap election, Pope Francis was released from the hospital, and Idaho residents are standing up for a teacher and her “Everyone Is Welcome Here” classroom poster. Today’s episode was hosted by Shumita Basu.
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  • Good morning.

  • It's Monday, March 24th.

  • I'm Shemitah Basu.

  • This is Apple News today.

  • On today's show,

  • what closing the Department of Education would mean for low income school districts,

  • why American chicken farms are particularly vulnerable to bird flu

  • and a community rallies behind a teacher who was told her classroom decor violates policy.

  • But first,

  • we're learning more about the Venezuelan migrants deported by the United States and sent to El Salvador with no due process.

  • CBS News has obtained an internal government list with the names of the 238 men,

  • more than half of whom President Trump and his administration have accused of being part of the Trend Gang,

  • a group that Trump has called a foreign terrorist group and wartime enemy.

  • He used those terms again when he invoked the Alien enemies Act of 1798,

  • a move that allowed him to give these men no chance to defend themselves in court and has set off a legal battle.

  • And now many of their family members and friends are speaking out,

  • saying they are not part of any gang and have committed no crimes.

  • One of the men is Jersey Reyes Barrios,

  • a Venezuelan soccer player who was in the US Waiting for a ruling on his asylum claim.

  • According to his attorney, he was suspected of being part of a gang because of his tattoo,