Posted on 09/20/2024 4:04:31 AM PDT by karpov
Candidate Trump has disavowed the document (seriously or not). The former president may well lose the election. Nevertheless, the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 is a serious outline for governance in a conservative administration and deserves to be considered as such.
Among the Project’s contents is a chapter on the United States Education Department (ED). The chapter, written by Lindsey Burke of the Heritage Foundation with substantial input from seven other education-policy notables associated with the 2025 Presidential Transition Project, provides an agenda for conservative education reform that is one part bold, one part thorough, and one part cautious. It is excellent at providing a guide for how to reverse perverse progressive initiatives, but it is a work in progress for providing a vision of conservative education policy.
Project 2025’s boldest ambition is to dismantle the ED—an ambition it states in the education chapter’s first sentence. The chapter’s first substantive section (pp. 325-30) details how precisely the ED’s 36 constituent programs should be distributed to Cabinet departments, including the Interior Department, the Labor Department, the Justice Department, and the Health and Human Services Department, and in many cases administered as block grants to the states.
This bold vision partly aims to achieve Heritage’s traditional and principled belief that there is no compelling justification for a bureaucratic federal role in education that permits the existence of an ED. Partly that belief is a pragmatic judgment that the ED’s existence renders it a single agency subject to interest-group capture, thus facilitating unnecessary expenditure (p. 321). Partly it attempts to rein in ED abuses, such as the imposition of radical ideology via the ED’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR), by subordinating OCR to the Justice Department’s more robust procedural guidelines (p. 330).
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The Left isn’t going to bring up the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, but Project 2025 serves a similar purpose if you need to engage in scare-mongering.
Project 2025 is irrelevant nonsense. Like asking, “What if God and Superman got into a fight.”
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