The Metro: Federal education funding cuts could impact vulnerable Michigan students the most

, February 24, 2025

Executive Director of Ed Trust-Midwest Amber Arellano joined The Metro on Monday to discuss the role the department plays and the impacts funding cuts could have.

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Education advocates in Michigan have been sounding the alarm about the potential elimination of the U.S. Department of Education. It’s something President Donald Trump has threatened, but doing so would require Congress’s approval. 

Vital programs are funded through the Department of Education and advocates are worried cuts would hit some of Michigan’s most vulnerable students especially hard.

Amber Arellano, executive director of The Education Trust – Midwest, joined The Metro on Monday to discuss the role the department plays and the impacts funding cuts could have. Ed Trust-Midwest is a non-partisan organization working to level the playing field for vulnerable students in Michigan.

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  • Robyn Vincent
    Robyn Vincent is the co-host of The Metro on WDET. She is an award-winning journalist, a lifelong listener of WDET, and a graduate of Wayne State University, where she studied journalism. Before returning home to Detroit, she was a reporter, producer, editor, and executive producer for NPR stations in the Mountain West, including her favorite Western station, KUNC. She received a national fellowship from Investigative Reporters and Editors for her investigative work that probed the unchecked power of sheriffs in Colorado. She was also the editor-in-chief of an alternative weekly newspaper in Wyoming, leading the paper to win its first national award for a series she directed tracing one reporter’s experience living and working with Syrian refugees.

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