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.
Wow, that’s disgraceful.
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.
I know that, I just didn’t think they’d go as far as to make a sliding scale of punishing wages for teachers who don’t comply.
The idea is that this way, they can retain teachers, who are notoriously hard to hire right now anyway, while also forcing their compliance via wage cuts for wrongthink.
Making America stupider even. To make sure there are plenty of Republican voters for tomorrow
Only one fifth of US-Americans can’t read! Lets make it at least a forth for the next “election”!
Isn’t it weird that more stupid and uneducated people meaning more republican voters?
But I’m not American so what do I know.
If the DOE is no longer around does that mean I no longer have to pay back my student loans.
I wish
Sadly he’s just going to privatize them. Interest rates will probably go up, etc, etc.
If they’re privatized, could they be discharged through bankruptcy? I hear he’s a fan of bankruptcy.
No you can’t discharge private student loans through bankruptcy either.
Only public ones
“Bankruptcy for me, not for thee”
American Academy sounds like a socialist plan.
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.
Just have to look at that thing in Florida as the proof of concept, desanctimonious university or whatever it is. Is that even still accredited?
They mean “socialist” in the Red Scare way. So exactly like you described, just worded in a way that would make the MAGAs cry.
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.
You forget, he has an idea of a plan
I was sure that him whining that at the debate would be the final nail in his political coffin. I’m so disappointed in my fellow Americans.
Education enforcement to be done by the police officers who currently sit at desks at the front of the school looking bored?
Republicans are really good at this thing called “collusion”
States’ Rights only matter when Republicans agree with them.
The Truth in Learning and Jesus is lord department of proper thought.
For a quick idea of the coming total control of morality‡ across all society, learn about the 7 mountain mandate (7mm)
^‡ does not apply to deities, god kings, or any member of the ruling faction amd their enforcers^
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gotta dumb-down the next generation of voters, i guess.
Republicans DISMANTLING our Education so they can make an American Academy in ONLY THEIR Vision is PROOF that DEMOCRATS are Indoctrinating our Kids!
It used to not be funny. It’s still not, but it used to not, too.
We’re already getting four more years of the real thing.
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?
Agent47 vs agenda47 who would win?
