If you still haven’t caught up on Project 2025, the Trumpian plan for the next conservative administration. Thomas Courtney has you covered.
Among its many early actions, Project 2025 seeks to turn schools into what Betsy Devos once likened to “taco trucks.” Should Project 2025 have its way, public schools would be replaced coast-to-coast by so-called “educational entrepreneurs” and philanthropists from folks like Kanye West and Betsy Devos. There would be an exponential increase in pop-up schools, virtual charters, segregated private schools, and schools in basements.
Project 2025 doesn’t just want to destroy public schools. Collectively, the ultra-fundamentalist organizations that back it want to eliminate the constitutional rights of people they don’t like forever. Top of the list to target is what the Heritage Foundation and Trump call the “woke” and the “radical” protections for students who identify as LGBTQ+.
Imagine, if you will, shopping for schools popping up around you, hoping that the independent company running the school will allow your child in it in the first place. Or maybe they won’t allow you as a parent there. Or maybe they will decide to remove any suggestion that LGBTQ+ people exist in the first place in all of their curriculum. They’ll be able to do all of that under Project 2025 and more.
IDEA, or the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, was passed into law in 1975. It mandated a fair education for students with disabilities.
