I'm a Teacher. Trump's Plans for Public Schools Terrify Me. But There Are Ways Parents Can Help.

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Decades ago, when I was a new teacher, my colleagues and I used to joke about the constant barrage of changes. "Public education is a moving target you can never hit," a mentor teacher once told me. Huge shifts are coming again. "I'm afraid I'm going to be put in prison for being trans," one of my students said to me after class last week.