Trump has proposed featuring prayer in public schools and dismantling the Department of Education.
Summary
Donald Trump has proposed major changes to the U.S. education system, including eliminating the Department of Education to give states more control.
His Agenda47 plan also aims to restrict school content on topics like race, gender, and sexuality, dismantle diversity initiatives, and promote “patriotic values” through teacher certification and curriculum changes.
Trump supports universal school choice, allowing public funds for private education, and seeks to end teacher tenure, replacing it with merit-based pay.
For higher education, he proposes creating a free “American Academy” funded by taxing private universities.
His Agenda47 plan also aims to restrict school content on topics like race, gender, and sexuality, dismantle diversity initiatives, and promote “patriotic values” through teacher certification and curriculum changes.
How exactly is this all going to be done without a Department of Education? One paragraph says give states more control and the next one says control the curriculum.
What happened to letting states control that? Every state already has some variation of state academy funded by whatever means is appropriate to the state (probably heavily dependent on DOE). In my state there is an emphasis on studying facts, science, actual academic exercises.
What if my state want to teach more than 6,000 years of history?
Funny how much "Agenda47" sounds similar to "Project2025"....
Also, "Merit Based Pay"?! AFAIK there is currently a teacher shortage and this dumbass thinks people are going to abide by a, no doubt, asinine rulebook to make a crappy wage in relation to the schooling required?
Republicans want public schools to be terrible. The rich will pay for their kids to go to private schools, while the poor will suffer and have less than ideal education so when they are adults, they become the working class and continue to vote Republican because they weren't educated to know better.
No, it doesn't. A socialist plan would be offering free tuition to any student to use at any university, free tuition at public universities, or creating and funding schools owned by the staff. This "American Academy" bullshit sounds like a way to A) take over higher education so that it can be propagandized for the right (like they already claim it is for the left), B) Justify defunding other forms of higher education assistance particularly for left leaning universities, and C) funnel billions from tax payers into some hand picked cronies to run his diploma mills and pay it forward in kick backs to him. Mark my words.