Agenda 47 vs. Project 2025 - Education

Department of Education (DOE)

Where we find overlap is their shared interest in shutting down the Department of Education and transferring all authority on education to the states.

Agenda 47 outlines Trump’s plans to cut the Department of Education and give all educational oversight back to the states. The Department of Education’s federal responsibilities will be split up among other departments and agencies. Trump’s agenda also expresses that he plans to fire any “defiant” employees from federal positions.
“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. “
Project 2025 is calling for the complete elimination of the Department of Education through the “Department of Education Reorganization Act” (pg 330). It believes that “existing funding should be sent to states” and that it is not the responsibility of the federal government to intervene in education. It also calls for different divisions within the Department of Education, to move to different departments which do not necessarily pertain to education. For example it calls for the oversight of IDEA, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act which grants schools with funding for disabled students, to move to the Department of Health and Human services which historically does not deal with educational grants.
“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”
Gender Identity and Critical Race Theory (CRT) in Education

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).

Trump’s Agenda 47 and the RNC Platform want to remove gender ideology critical race theory, and other “inappropriate racial, sexual, or political content” from education. Schools that don’t comply will be cut off from federal funding. Looking specifically at gender identity and expression, Trump aims to ban transgender athletes from participating in sports. Agenda 47 and the RNC will also cut funding for any school that includes Critical Race Theory in its curriculum.
“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.”
Project 2025 takes a hard stance on the debate of gender identity and critical race theory, calling for the amendment of Title IX to “define sex to mean only biological sex recognized at birth,” removal of CRT in our school curriculums, and to overall “reject[] gender ideology and critical race theory ” It signals that the current laws should be changed and restored to the “Trump administration’s Title IX regulation” through Congress, and that Congress should amend title IX to counter the “trampling” that has been done in regards to “women’s and girl’s athletic opportunities.” Project 2025 aims to ban transgender athletes from participating in sports. Furthermore, it seeks to enforce laws which prevent the enforcement of recognizing one’s gender identity if it is inconsistent with their biological sex. For example, if Sally were to prefer using She/Her pronouns, but was biologically a male, Project 2025 suggests that anyone referring to that individual in a public educational or institutional settings CAN NOT use She/Her pronouns to refer to Sally “without the written permission” of their guardians.
“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.”
Higher Education and Student Loan Forgiveness

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.

In Agenda 47, Trump accuses higher education accreditors of “ripping off students and taxpayers.” The platform proposes removing all “radical Left” accreditors and replacing them with accreditors that will uphold a new set of standards. These new regulations on colleges will include the removal of all diversity, equity, and inclusion positions, implementation of entrance and exit exams, and broadening options for accelerated or low-cost degrees. Trump also proposed the creation of a new educational institution, the American Academy, which will offer free education for citizens and will be financed by taxation or fines imposed on private university endowments.
“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.”
Project 2025 is extremely critical of higher education accreditation agencies as well as student loan forgiveness. It wants to prohibit accreditation agencies from mandating that universities implement diversity, equity, and inclusion policies (pg. 352). It also believes that “accreditation regulations should be removed” by Congress and if that is not possible then the president should pursue Antitrust lawsuits against accreditors, specifically the American Bar Association. In regards to student loans, Project 2025 believes that “there should be no loan forgiveness” and that student loan obligations should be privatized and given to a “government corporation” (pg. 327 and 338).
“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)”
K-12 Education

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.

Agenda 47 details comprehensive changes to K-12 education, including the termination of teacher tenure and the creation a new teacher credentialing body that certifies those “who embrace patriotic values [and] support our way of life.” The RNC Platform also echoes these changes to education, noting that instead of tenure teachers will be awarded Merit Pay depending on their performance. Trump’s Agenda 47 also advocates for an expansion of parental rights in schooling. Under this platform, parents would have the power to “hire… good principals and teachers, and also fire the poor ones.” Trump is also backing the adoption of a Parental Bill of Rights that ensures “curriculum transparency… and universal school choice.” On the topic of homeschooling, Agenda 47 explains that parents who homeschool their children will receive a tax-free benefit of $10,000 per child annually.
“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”
Project 2025 is calling for the phasing out of Title I programs across schools and leaving the “decision making-control” of education for low-income families to states (pg 350). It also calls for a review of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act which prohibits discrimination of the basis of race, color, and national origin in programs receiving federal financial assistance, specifically calling for the removal of disparate impact. Disparate impact is when neutral seeming laws impact certain marginalized groups, for example how African-American students tend to score lower on standardized tests when compared to Asian-Americans due to the fact that Asian-Americans often times have access to more educational resources. Project 2025 calls for an end to a review of policy as exemplified above. Furthermore, Project 2025 calls for the adoption of a Parental Bill of Rights similar to the one Agenda 47 endorses.
“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.”
Faith-based Education

Where we find overlap is in their advocacy to strengthen legal protections for faith-based institutions and religious expression in schools.

In the RNC Platform and Agenda 47, there is a shared sentiment to “bring back prayer” to classrooms. Moreover, both platforms aim to crack down on any violations of 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.”
Project 2025 seeks to strengthen protections for faith based educational institutions. Under Project 2025 accreditation agencies—which determine national standards of education and what criteria a school has to complete in order to be recognized as a learning institution— are prohibited from requiring these standards and criteria for faith based schools should it undermine their religious beliefs. Furthermore, it calls for the removal of a list of colleges which attempted to claim a religious exemption with the Office of Civil Rights in regards to implementing Title IX.
“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.”
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