The Threat of Project 2025 on Education

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🗓️ 9 September 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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How educators and politicians are fighting back against the sort of attacks on public education that could become more common under Project 2025.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Joy Reed, and this is the second episode of our special How to win series the threat of project 2025.
0:15.6	On this episode we'll be talking all about the threat of project 2025 to education.
0:21.3	The most terrifying policy proposals for a possible Trump second term are all spelled out in one document.
0:27.0	Project 2025.
0:29.0	This Project 2025 manifesto by Trump lowerless and extreme Republicans is based on darkness.
0:35.0	For those of you that missed episode one of the series, Project 2025 has been getting a lot of attention these last few months.
0:42.0	We're referring to the Heritage Foundation's 940. getting a lot of attention these last few months.
0:42.5	We're referring to the Heritage Foundation's 922 page
0:46.1	playbook for the next conservative president.
0:49.1	This document is called Mandate for Leadership 2025.
0:53.2	And one of the most glaring ideas
0:55.3	is the elimination of the Department of Education,
0:57.7	a pet project coming from the head of the organization
1:00.1	himself, Kevin Roberts.
1:02.1	My life's work is to end the U.S. Department of Education.
1:04.7	I'm not going to stop until it's gone.
1:06.1	And the Heritage Foundation for decades since Reagan was president has had that
1:09.7	as its number one educational objective.
1:11.6	And while Trump has tried to distance himself from Project 2025,
1:15.4	some of the proposals on education sound exactly the same.
1:19.0	And one other thing I'll be doing very early in the administration is closing up the Department of Education in Washington, D.C.
1:26.5	And sending all education and education work and needs back to the states.
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