How to Stand Up to Project 2025 and Save Public Education

Assembly Required with Stacey Abrams

Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Stacey talks to Kate Nazemi, a local education activist and parent, and Jon Valant, director of the Brown Center on Education Policy at the Brookings Institution, about the future of public education during a second Trump Administration. They break down Project 2025’s education policy prescriptions, the threats to the Department of Education, and what changes a President can and cannot make. Then, they discuss how to best get involved at the local level to make change in your community – from attending local school board meetings, to writing to your local representatives.

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Learn & Do More:

Check out the work of Advocates For Inclusive Education @afiebucks on Instagram, or at their website
Make a list of people in your network and community that are working to do good, or could be potential partners for good.
Follow the work of Jon Valant and The Brown Center on Education Policy at the Brookings Institution, or check out Chalkbeat, a nonprofit newsroom devoted to covering education across the United States.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Assembly Required with Stacey Abrams from Cricket Media.
0:11.8	I'm your host, Stacey Abrams.
0:14.4	On this show, we try to take complicated issues and untangle them for our audience.
0:20.4	We want to make sure that listeners can take
0:22.6	action on the things they care about and that they understand those things. We are trying our best
0:29.3	to break through the analysis paralysis that is taking hold of so many of us. But we also want to
0:36.1	dispel the desperation that keeps us inactive.
0:39.3	So often, the issues seem so big and so complicated. Doing nothing seems like the smartest thing to do.
0:47.3	Or we think it's too big for us to solve alone and we wait for someone to call us in. Well, consider this your call. Because since November,
0:57.0	we have had a lot of conversation about what is going to happen next. What can we expect in a second
1:04.3	Donald Trump administration with a Republican-controlled Congress and a rubber-stamping Supreme Court?
1:11.1	Listeners have written in to ask us about everything from how to protect same-sex marriage
1:14.9	rights to what will happen to their health care and on a more basic level, how to move
1:20.4	forward in what can feel like a shocking and terrifying time for so many.
1:26.1	And among the responses we've been getting, there's one topic that
1:29.3	has come up the most, and that's education. In fact, here's one of the calls we've gotten from our
1:36.7	listeners. This is from Kieran from right here in Georgia. My name is Kieran, Krishina Murdi.
1:42.4	I live in Savannah, Georgia.
1:48.8	I don't have a lot of money, but I try to support your organization as much as I can.
2:01.4	Right now, I'm trying to do local things, and I wonder if you knew of anything I could do with the Department of Education since the Trump administration is talking about shutting it down.
2:04.6	If there's anything I can do, I would really love to be able to. Bye-bye.
2:10.2	So what Kieran is referring to, and thank you, Karen, for calling in, she's referring to a pledge from the president-elect who has promised to shut down the Department of Education.
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