Where we find overlap is their shared interest in shutting down the Department of Education and transferring all authority on education to the states.
“On Day One, we will begin to find and remove the radicals, zealots, and Marxists who have infiltrated the federal Department of Education, and that also includes others, and you know who you are.”
“And one other thing I'll be doing very early in the administration is closing up the Department of Education in Washington D.C. and sending all education and education work and needs back to the States.”
“And I will tell Congress that any appropriations bill I sign must reaffirm the president’s ability to remove defiant employees from the job”
“We're going to end education coming out of Washington D.C. We're going to close it up -- all those buildings all over the place and yet people that in many cases hate our children. “
“Federal education policy should be limited and, ultimately, the federal Department of Education should be eliminated”
“As Washington begins to downsize its intervention in education, existing funding should be sent to states as grants over which they have full control, enabling states to put federal funding toward any lawful education purpose under state law.”
“Congress should pass and the next President should sign a Department of Education Reorganization Act.”
“OCR (division in DOE Office of Civil Rights) should move to the Department of Justice. The federal government has an essential responsibility to enforce civil rights protections, but Washington should do so through the Department of Justice and federal courts. The OCR at DOJ should be able to enforce only through litigation.”
“Federal lawmakers should move IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) oversight and implementation to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services”
Where we find overlap is in their policies about the participation of Transgender Athletes in sports, the removal of gender ideology and Critical Race Theory in schooling, and changing laws regarding federal funding and regulations on general identity and Critical Race Theory (CRT).
“We will keep men out of women’s sports.”
“First, we will cut federal funding for any school or program pushing critical race theory, gender ideology, or other inappropriate racial, sexual, or political content onto our children. We are not going to allow it to happen.”
“Republicans will ensure children are taught fundamentals like Reading, History, Science, and Math, not Leftwing propaganda. We will defund schools that engage in inappropriate political indoctrination of our children using Federal Taxpayer Dollars.”
“Work with Congress to amend Title IX to include due process requirements; define “sex” under Title IX to mean only biological sex recognized at birth”
The Biden Administration has sought to trample women’s and girls’ athletic opportunities and due process on campus, threaten free speech and religious liberty, and erode parental rights in elementary and secondary education regarding sensitive issues of sex.”
“The next Administration should…restore the Trump Administration’s Title IX regulation, with the additional insistence that “sex” is properly understood as a fixed biological fact.”
Critical Race Theory “disrupts America’s Founding ideals of freedom and opportunity.”
“No public education employee or contractor shall use a pronoun in addressing a student that is different from that student’s biological sex without the written permission of a student’s parents or guardians.”
“No public institution may require an education employee or contractor to use a pronoun that does not match a person’s biological sex if contrary to the employee’s or contractor’s religious or moral convictions.”
“Enforcement of civil rights should be based on a proper understanding of those laws, rejecting gender ideology and critical race theory”
“Reduce federal taxpayer subsidization of leftist agendas.”
Where we find overlap is in the removal of accreditation agencies which they both believe to be pushing a Leftist agenda. Agenda 47 and Project 2025 are also against diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives in higher education.
“The accreditors are supposed to ensure that schools are not ripping off students and taxpayers, but they have failed totally. When I return to the White House, I will fire the radical Left accreditors that have allowed our colleges to become dominated by Marxist Maniacs and lunatics.”
“We will then accept applications for new accreditors who will impose real standards on colleges once again and once and for all…standards will include defending the American tradition and Western civilization, protecting free speech, eliminating wasteful administrative positions that drive up costs incredibly, removing all Marxist diversity, equity, and inclusion bureaucrats, offering options for accelerated and low-cost degrees, providing meaningful job placement and career services, and implementing college entrance and exit exams to prove that students are actually learning and getting their money's worth.”
“Under the plan I’m announcing today, we will take the billions and billions of dollars that we will collect by taxing, fining, and suing excessively large private university endowments, and we will then use that money to endow a new institution called the American Academy…Its mission will be to make a truly world-class education available to every American, free of charge, and do it without adding a single dime to the federal debt.”
“The next Administration should completely reverse the student loan federalization of 2010 and work with Congress to spin off FSA and its student loan obligations to a new government corporation with professional governance and management.”
“If new legislation is possible, there should be no loan forgiveness”
“Prohibit accreditation agencies from leveraging their Title IV gatekeeper role to mandate that educational institutions adopt diversity, equity, and inclusion policies.”
“Although the accreditation regulations should be removed entirely by Congress, in the meantime, the next President should issue an executive order expanding the list of allowable accreditors”
“The President should issue an executive order pursuing antitrust against college accreditors, especially the American Bar Association (ABA)”
Where we find overlap is in the proposal of the Parental Bill of Rights. Both Project 2025 and Agenda 47 call for a parental bill of rights in regards to education.
“Abolish teacher tenure for grades K through 12, so we can remove BAD teachers, and adopt Merit Pay to reward GOOD teachers. “
“Republicans will support schools that focus on Excellence and Parental Rights. We will support ending Teacher Tenure, adopting Merit pay, and allowing various publicly supported Educational models.”
“And we will create a new credentialing body that will be the Gold Standard, anywhere in the world, to certify teachers who embrace patriotic values, support our way of life, and understand that their job is not to indoctrinate children, but very simply to educate them.”
“So to support the growing homeschool movement, in my next term, I will immediately fight to allow homeschool parents the same incredible benefit--$10,000 a year per child, completely tax free to spend on costs associated with homeschool education.”
“We will empower parents and local school boards to hire and reward great principals and teachers, and also to fire the poor ones. The ones whose performance is unsatisfactory they will be fired. Like on The Apprentice, you're fired.”
“adopt a Parental Bill of Rights that includes complete curriculum transparency, and a form of universal school choice”
“implement the direct election of school principals by the parents”
“Transfer title I, Part A, which provides federal funding for lower-income school districts to the department of Health and Human Services specifically the Administration for children and families. It should be administered as a no-strings-attached formula block grant.“
“The new Administration must take immediate steps to rescind the new requirements and lessen the federal restrictions on charter schools.”
“As part of this effort, the new Administration should also direct the department and DOJ jointly to issue enforcement guidance stating that the agencies will no longer investigate Title VI cases that exclusively rest on allegations of disparate impact.”
“The next Secretary should work with the next Attorney General on a regulation that would clarify current regulations to state that Title VI of the Civil Rights Act does not include a disparate impact standard.”
“The Department of Education (or whichever agency collects such data long term) should make student data available by family structure to the public, including as part of its Data Explorer tool.”
“Work to pass a federal Parents’ Bill of Rights that restores parental rights to a “top-tier” right. Such legislation would give families a fair hearing in court when the federal government enforces any policy against parents in a way that undermines their right and responsibility to raise, educate, and care for their children. The law would require the government to satisfy “strict scrutiny”—the highest standard of judicial review—when the government infringes parental rights.”
“Members of Congress and the White House should consider a similar update to Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act” so that it “be phased out and states should assume decision-making control over how to provide a quality education to children from low-income families.”
Where we find overlap is in their advocacy to strengthen legal protections for faith-based institutions and religious expression in schools.
“We will support bringing back prayer to our schools.”
“Republicans will champion the First Amendment Right to Pray and Read the Bible in school, and stand up to those who violate the Religious Freedoms of American students”
“The Marxism being preached in our schools is also totally hostile to Judeo-Christian teachings, and in many ways, it is resembling an established new religion. Can’t let that happen. For this reason, my administration will aggressively pursue potential violations of the Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause of the Constitution.”
“Strengthen protections for faith-based educational institutions, programs, and activities.”
“Prohibit accreditation agencies from : Requiring standards and criteria that undermine the religious beliefs of, or require policies or conduct that conflict with, the religious mission or religious beliefs of the institution and intruding on the governance of colleges and universities controlled by a religious organization.”
“Educational institutions can claim a religious exemption with the Office for Civil Rights at the Department of Education from the strictures of Title IX. In 2016, the Obama Administration published on the Department of Education’s website a list of colleges that had applied for the exemption. This “list of shame” of faith-based colleges, as it came to be known, has since been archived on ED’s website, still publicly available. The President should issue an executive order removing the archived list and preventing such a list from being published in the future.”