Posted on 07/22/2024 12:07:44 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
Project 2025, the policy agenda for Former President Trump’s potential first year back in the White House published by the far right conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation, has been making waves recently. Some of the many destructive proposals within the agenda include the elimination of the U.S. Department of Education—along with federal education funding and any civil rights protections—and the diversion of public money to private school voucher programs instead.
Make no mistake: The goal is to end public education. But dismantling our public schools isn’t just the plan if Trump is reelected—it is already happening.
We are on the brink of a new wave of public school closures, another step in the decades-long project to divest and dismantle the institution of public school. Disguised as “school choice,” federal, state, local, and private actors have prioritized paying for private and charter schools, hoarding educational resources for the haves and depleting resources for the have-nots. The policies that Project 2025 plans to prioritize—government payments to families sending their children to private school and creation of new charter schools that are run like businesses—have expanded in the last few years, starving public school districts that serve all students of already insufficient resources. In the 2023-24 school year, at least 70 school districts, including in San Antonio, Texas, Jackson, Mississippi, and Wichita, Kansas, announced permanent closures of public schools, impacting millions of students. These districts are resorting to the harmful, discriminatory, and ineffective so-called ‘solution’ of closing schools in Black and Latine communities, stripping those communities of their local public schools.
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Hey, Time: Trump has his own agenda. You are just disinforming people.
Yes. Close the public schools.
They are worse than useless. They are graduating illiterate barbarians.
Trump should ban Heritage Foundation and anyone associated with it from his next administration. He’s being tarred with this 900-page tomb and he had nothing to do with it and it is not the Republican party agenda.
The government hates competition.
That’s not exactly an original idea. Break up the libtard propaganda machine and replace it with actual education
Authors ...
JESSICA ALCANTARA is a Senior Staff Attorney in the Opportunity to Learn program at Advancement Project. Jessica supports Black and Latinx communities on issues of the school-to-prison pipeline and school closures, with the goal of increasing Black and Latinx students’ access to quality, sustainable community schools, as well as winning police free schools. She also works on the intersection of education law and immigration law.
Jessica joined Advancement Project in 2016 as a Skadden Fellow. She is a graduate of Dartmouth College, where she earned a B.A. in Geography and Latin American, Latino and Caribbean Studies, as well as a minor in Spanish Language and Literature. Following her time at Dartmouth she joined the Peace Corps, serving for two years as a Youth Development Volunteer in Azerbaijan.
Jessica attended Columbia Law School, where she served as the Submissions Editor of the Columbia Journal of Race and Law. While at Columbia, Jessica also served as Admissions Chair of both the Black Law Students Association and the Latino Law Students Association, and was also involved with the Student Public Interest Network. She is an alumna of the Prep for Prep program in New York City, where she has also taught. Prior to law school, she earned a M.A. in Latin American and Latino Studies at Fordham University.
LAURA PETTY is a lawyer and legal advocate who has dedicated her career to supporting local movements for racially-just schools. She was awarded a 2023 Skadden Foundation Fellowship, a prestigious and competitive program for early-career lawyers working in the public interest.
Here are some key points about Laura Petty:
Education: Laura Petty graduated in 2021 and was awarded a Skadden Fellowship for 2023.
Work Experience: She has worked as a legal intern at NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and as a law fellow at the National Education Association, advocating for low-income communities of color and combating school privatization.
Focus: Her work focuses on supporting local movements for racially-just schools, including teaching in underresourced and high-poverty school communities of color, researching and publishing on the impacts of school privatization, and litigating for equitable school funding and against school privatization.
Current Position: Laura Petty is currently a Law Fellow at Advancement Project in Washington.
Well, the first sentence is a lie, so why read further?
This “Project 2025” trope is going to be the “Russia, Russia, Russia” of the next four years.
>>The goal is to end public education. But dismantling our public schools isn’t just the plan if Trump is reelected
Sloppy reasoning, conflating “public education” with “public school”. School choice is STILL publicly-funded education, it’s just not at a government-run school.
Democrats are desperate to turn the election from a candidate popularity contest to an issues based election. It’s too late and Kamala has too much baggage. Trump had nothing to do with Project 2025. As a matter of fact Trump supporters are demanding an end to government by bureaucrats and NGOs. The constitutional based Separation of powers forbids it.
I still remember when the Heritage Foundation had Arnie Duncan as their luncheon speaker.
Don't just close them, have war crimes trials of those responsible. And executions.
It can’t come soon enough.
My school district taxes are like rent on a house I already own.
So Biden/Harris are behind Project 2025.
I loath the heritage foundation for releasing this ahead of November and giving the left a huge target to propagandize putting the entire campaign and all of Trumps supporters on the defensive.
FUHF
Public schools which serve the needs of the far left unions and provide sinecures for their toadies might need to rethink their priorities. I see zero harm in that!
These districts are resorting to the harmful, discriminatory, and ineffective so-called ‘solution’ of closing schools in Black and Latine communities, stripping those communities of their local public schools
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A lions hare of the funds available go to the administrators, union dues, and teacher’s salaries, what’s left over goes to the students. Which is why public schools always need more money and they get that via property taxes.
The Department of Education, just like the Teacher’s Unions have been anything but beneficial to the US Education System.
I’m all for dismantling GOVERNMENT schools. Federal govt should have nothing to do with education. Schools should be run locally. The people of the various cities and towns should be in charge of public schools, with minimal state standards in force.
And there should be tax incentives for private schools.
I'm in favor. The time to end government controlled education came a long time ago.
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