Taking Stock One Year After RFK, Jr. Abandoned Science

This past month, my kids’ small-town school has been in crisis mode. Budget shortfalls, emergency meetings, parents scrambling to understand policies and funding formulas we’d never had to think about before. A lot of us showed up not really knowing the ins and outs, but once we learned what was happening, we got involved. We spoke up. We figured out how to help (or at least we’re trying to).