April 02, 2025

Warren Launches New Campaign to “Save Our Schools”

Warren Launches New Campaign to “Save Our Schools”

Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) launched the Save Our Schools campaign to fight back against the Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle the Department of Education (ED) and highlight the consequences for every student and public school in America. 

As part of the campaign, Senator Warren will amplify the real-life impacts of cuts to ED; lead investigations to hold the Trump administration accountable, including ED Secretary Linda McMahon and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE); and bring students, teachers, parents, and unions into the fight to protect access to public education.

“If Donald Trump and Elon Musk dismantle the Department of Education, teachers will be fired, class sizes will go up, after-school programs will be cut, and young people who need access to financial aid to be able to go to college will lose that on-ramp to a stronger future,” said Senator Warren. “Taking that away from our kids so that a handful of billionaires can be even richer is just plain ugly, and I will fight it with everything I've got.” 

Save Our Schools is the latest action Senator Warren is taking as part of her longstanding leadership and work to defend public schools, students, and working families, building on her rigorous oversight of the Trump administration’s attacks on public education. 

Senator Warren’s oversight of Donald Trump’s efforts to end public education as we know it has already led to tangible results. Senator Warren’s pointed questions led to Secretary McMahon’s first public admission that she “wholeheartedly” agreed with Trump’s plans to abolish the Department of Education. Notably, this response is now being used by Somerville Public Schools, Easthampton Public Schools, AFT Massachusetts, and AFT National in their lawsuit against Trump’s executive order to abolish ED. 

Additionally, following Trump’s actions to cut ED’s workforce in half, another key step towards his plan to dismantle the agency, the financial aid application for millions of students applying to college went dark. Senator Warren immediately opened an investigation into these firings and urged Secretary McMahon to reinstate employees critical to the federal student aid process. The next day, the Department began to rehire Federal Student Aid workers and soon afterwards, the financial aid application came back online.

“We've got to fight for an America where it's not just the kids of billionaires who get a good education but it's every kid in every community who gets a great education,” said Senator Warren.

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