This week, Ali Velshi continues his deep dive inside Project 2025, the nearly 1,000-page authoritarian blueprint for a new Trump administration. Chapter 11 calls for the elimination of the Federal Department of Education and outlines an agenda for public school in America that strips protections for students and families and diverts funding away from the poor and toward wealthy religious and private institutions.
Project 2025’s plan for doing away with public school includes:
- End the Head Start program for young children in poverty.
- End Title 1 funding for schools serving low-income children.
- Rescind federal civil rights protections for LGBTQ+ students.
- Reduce federal funding for students with disabilities, and remove guardrails designed to ensure these children are adequately served by schools.
- Privatize the federal student loan portfolio, and end student loan forgiveness.
- Promote universal private school choice.
While some parents applaud the idea of “school choice,” the reality is that the model Project 2025 applies nationally is from Arizona, where the state voucher program redirects hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars away from the public school system, which is already badly in need of funding, and into the pockets of wealthy families who can already afford private school.
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