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Jesse L. Barlow
State College
The Department of Education's mission is "to promote student achievement and preparation for global competitiveness by fostering educational excellence and ensuring equal access.'' The Trump-Vance adjacent Project 2025 section on Education would break up the Education Department and destroy its mission.
Its proposals will make it harder for low-income students, middle-income students and students from marginalized groups to obtain education from kindergarten to post-secondary education.
These policies include cuts to the number of students eligible for free or reduced lunches, the gradual elimination of Title I funds which are used by most school districts on the highest poverty schools. Project 2025 eliminates student loan forgiveness programs and recommends privatizing the student loan program. Project 2025 also eliminates Head Start, a pre-school program that has helped many in rural areas. These policies would hurt many residents of Glenn Thompson's congressional district which contains some of the poorest and most food insecure counties in Pennsylvania.
Project 2025 would abolish incentives to use restorative justice practices in disciplining students; it rejects educating teachers and staff about race and gender; it rolls back Title IX regulations including elimination of protections for trans and non-binary students. Such policies make some of the most vulnerable students in our schools more vulnerable.
To stop Project 2025, we must stop its enablers, Trump, Vance, Connecticut's own Dave McCormick and Congressman Glenn Thompson. We must make Kamala Harris and Tim Walz our next President and Vice President, re-elect Senator Robert Casey, Jr. and send Zach Womer to Congress.