In times of war, opposing countries seek to destroy the educational, scientific, and technological institutions of their enemies. This weakens their ability to educate, create, and grow. The dismantling of the Department of Education, and the tacit approval by Congress and the courts, is tantamount to us doing our enemies’ work for them.

The substantial majority of the cuts, amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars, targeted education studies like those conducted at Irvine’s Digital Learning Lab, which Warschauer directs.