CREST HILL – State Senator Meg Loughran Cappel (D-Shorewood) released the following statement in response to the Trump Administration’s decision for the Department of Health and Human Services to oversee special education:
“The Trump Administration continues to make reckless decisions to dismantle the Department of Education, directly affecting students across the country. The Department of Health and Human Services overseeing special education will hurt our students. HHS lacks the educational infrastructure needed to continue supporting families and students with disabilities who rely on these essential services from the federal government. This transition will place too many services under one umbrella, leading to less overall support for both students with disabilities and students in need of IEPs to get the critical resources they need.
“The priorities of this administration are becoming more and more clear: they want to hurt our most vulnerable populations. This is an insult that will have a lasting effect on our students. As a former special education teacher who spent 15 years in the classroom, I’m not only angry, I’m also disgusted. When will the Trump Administration stop hurting our kids? Enough is enough.”
