They have to be funded and supported. Sadly, the political will wouldn’t be there even if the Secretary of Education wasn’t appointed by a “president” in thrall to (and aided in his election campaign by) the world’s most successful practitioner of social-media-driven disinformatzya. The GOP “loves the poorly educated”, too, and apologists for authoritarian thugs like Putin aren’t the only kind of “useful idiot” out there.
