Know Your Education Rights with ReNika Moore

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🗓️ 23 May 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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It may be graduation season, but here on At Liberty, class is still in session—and this week, we’re exploring students’ right to learn. Since the Trump administration took office, schools across the country have faced book bans, funding cuts, and a rollback in civil rights protections. This week, ReNika Moore—Director of the ACLU's Racial Justice Program—joins W. Kamau Bell to discuss what’s at stake for K-12 and higher education institutions, and why equal access to education must be protected. Want to make your voice heard? Head to action.aclu.org/send-message/save-department-education This episode was executive produced by Jessica Herman Weitz and Gwen Schroeder for the ACLU, and W. Kamau Bell, Kelly Rafferty, PhD, and Melissa Hudson Bell, PhD for Who Knows Best Productions. It was recorded at Skyline Studios in Oakland, CA. Our senior executive producer is Sam Riddell. At Liberty is edited and produced by Erica Getto and Myrriah Gossett for Good Get.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, it's me, W. Kamaute Bell. Welcome back to the ASLU's podcast at Liberty hosted by
0:08.0	W. Camel. Hey, that's me, W. Camel Bell. On this show, we explore the big issues affecting our
0:15.3	giant country and especially affecting our hardest, it, and most vulnerable communities.
0:21.0	And every time we get together,
0:22.4	I feel like school's in session,
0:24.0	except at school I like to pay attention to.
0:26.5	As always, we got ACLU experts at the chalkboard
0:29.2	teaching us about our civil liberties.
0:31.5	This semester, we've been learning about our rights,
0:34.1	protest rights, immigration rights, disability rights,
0:37.2	and beyond. And this week,
0:39.5	with graduation season around the corner, I got an eighth grader who's about to graduate,
0:43.7	y'all, and a fifth grader, and a first grader who's graduating the second grade. Anyway,
0:48.2	we're turning our focus to education. All right, class, open your textbooks to the year 1954.
0:56.9	When the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education, educational opportunities, they said,
1:02.2	are critical for a child's chance to, quote, unquote, succeed in life.
1:07.6	And they're a right that, quote, unquote, must be made available to all on equal terms.
1:13.9	Well, the Trump administration must have missed that chapter of their history book, because they don't
1:18.5	seem to know that. In March, Trump issued an executive order to dismantle the Department of
1:24.0	Education, putting at risk public essential protections for students and
1:28.4	educators across the country. This administration has also pulled critical funding from programs
1:34.2	like Head Start, which has helped more than 40 million families with young children since
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