This is the Kato Daily Podcast for Friday, August 2nd, 2004.

I'm Caleb Brown.

Project 2025 has been both heavily promoted and heavily maligned.

And though the Trump campaign has put serious distance

between itself and the Heritage Foundation project,

perhaps its least objectionable element

is its proposals to largely get the federal government out of education.

Kato's Neil McCluskey evaluates the proposal.

Neil, there's a lot of talk about Project 2025. It has almost become a bad word on the left broadly, but I want to talk about that set of

policy ideas in the context of education, but also broaden it out a little bit and talk a little bit more about the Republican platform with respect to education and some of the offhand comments from former President Trump as he seeks

re-election. So to start with Project 2025 this is a wide variety of different policy areas and with

specific respects to education, where as you happily point out, there is no proper federal

role with a couple of very minor exceptions.

What does Project 2025 propose to do with respect to education?

So Project 2025 is a pretty reasonable approach to getting the federal role in education down to size.

It's about 40 or 50 pages. This isn't something that just says we'll get rid of the Department of Education.

It talks about all sorts of different things that the federal government does,

you know, K through 12, higher education.

And it lays out what the federal government maybe should continue to do, what it shouldn't do.

And then kind of second order, if it's going to do things, what is a better way to make it work?

So a lot of the discussion is, well, what can we move

at a Department of Education?

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