‘Only the rich can have those choices’: Project 2025’s plan to dismantle the Department of Education

On a mission to gut the Department of Education, Project 2025, the 900+ page outline for the next Republican administration outlines a long list of program cuts and policy proposals that primarily target programs which benefit low income children and students with disabilities. “They want to take the meal programs away from kids. They want to take civil rights away from kids,” says American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten. “How do we help kids go from struggling to thriving if they take this funding away?” 



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[James_Knott]

Tax dollars should never be used for private schools and especially not religious schools!

[andyg]

So, the GOP is perfectly fine with Socialism for the rich, but not the poor. Got it

[annanelson]

Rich people have school choice. PAY FOR IT YOURSELVES.

[PinkTigger]

This is the same thing they did back during slavery in not teaching slaves to read, write, or provide them education to keep them oppressed and down. Knowledge is a powerful tool and they are threatened by us. VOTE and make your voice heard.

[OStarBlogTech]

Private schools in the UK are just about to get taxed meanwhile, the opposite is about to happen in the US! This is sickening!!

[commandosolo]

"End the head start program for children in poverty... end title 1 funding for schools serving low-income children..." why are people who've lived such privileged lives so cruel...?

[dimimegesis]

rich people getting subsidies for private school makes me SO ANGRY I HATE THEM

[lovechildaz]

The people of Arizona DID NOT vote for school vouchers. Im was voted down in a big way. The Republican legislature ignored the vote of the people and made it happen anyway. Infuriating!

[BlueTuesday-dg]

They literally want to take from the poor and give to the rich.

[d.f.]

"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful."

Seneca

[thomashenderson]

"The children yearn for the mines" - the current GOP plan.

[swood]

Yes, we do need to vote these people out. And to vote to keep them out.

[carolion]

I really appreciate how dedicated MSNBC is to making sure that the American electorate understands project 2025. I’m so surprised that the Republicans aren’t undertaking this themselves seeing as it’s their policy document and it is something that they have spent a lot of time and are very proud of. Oh well.

[KingBedlam]

As a special education teacher, the idea that they'd eliminate funding for disabled students is absolutely insane. It's cruelty for the sake of cruelty.

[HeatherL]

Scary that anyone in this country wants any of this.

[MS-jpop]

Makes perfect sense. Studies have shown higher levels of education correlate to liberalism, so actually "knowing things" is an existential threat to conservatism.

[ThomasWright-nk]

I am a disabled veteran and very upset that tax dollars are being used to fund religious schools. The government should not be involved in any way with promoting religion, period.

[HellInternAKACandyMD]

"Reduce federal funding for students with disabilities and remove guardrails designed to ensure these children are adequately served by schools."
I've lived this lifestyle, in the 90s, in a rural public school. It is horrible, I was left alone in the dust, and as soon as I showed my gift with Math, the teachers would glow profusely and accept thanks for "educating" me. They ended up being the verbal bully quite a few times their selves. I would grow up confused and blame myself for not having a visual physical handicap, so people would be aware I have a mental and hearing handicap and stop picking on me and holding me to unfair standards, but to also stop perceiving me as a threat that needs to be held down and tortured. Because why?
Don't go backwards. "We won't go back! - Kamala Harris"

[ashtorith]

I’m always surprised at the amount of people that brainlessly follow this sociopath. He only has the wealthiest Americans interests at heart.

[allenhowell]

Public education is one of the best things America ever invented, but as long as funding for public schools is based on property values (taxes) then schools in working class and poor towns will remain underfunded compared to wealthy towns. I live in MA where one town (Newton MA) spent 200 million on a new high school while in the nearby town of Hull the buildings are literally falling apart.