Thursday, March 13

The Trump administration just laid off 1,300 staffers at the Department of Education, leaving the department at half the size it was just a few weeks ago.

Watch a discussion between Bellwether Partner Nick Lee and John B. King, Jr., Chancellor of the State University of New York and former U.S. Secretary of Education in the Obama administration about what this latest round of cuts might mean for the work of the department, for leaders up and down the education system, and for students — and what they tell us about the administration’s plans for federal education policy over the next four years.