Washington – the return of Donald Trump to the presidency can prepare the ground for wide changes in US education policy.
During his campaign, Trump swore to “save American education”, with particular emphasis on parental rights and Universal School Chool Choice – offering a rapid contrast with the Biden administration record.
With the victory of the Trump of the White House, here is a look at education:
Getting rid of the American education department
Perhaps the most far -reaching Trump education plan includes his vow of closing the US Education Department.
The department – only 45 years – is not responsible for establishing a school curriculum, because education is decentralized in the United States. . Agency mission It is “promoting students’ achievements and preparations for global competitiveness by supporting educational perfection and ensuring equal access.”
Trump has repeatedly called for the transfer of education “back to the countries”, although responsibility for education is already falling mainly to states and local governments, which allocate a significant part of financing K-12 schools.
Increasing financing
Trump proposed increases in financing for states and school districts, which are in line with his vision of education, including the adoption of the “Parental Rights Card, which includes the total transparency of the curriculum and the form of universal school choice” According to his plan.
He also wants to give preferences to financing schools that get rid of the “teacher’s term” in classes K-12 and accept “remuneration for merit”.
He could also enhance funds for schools where parents conduct direct elections of directors, as well as for schools, which significantly reduce the number of their administrators.
Trump’s plan also includes the creation of a certificate authority to certify teachers “who accept patriotic values ​​and understand that their task is not indoctrination of children, but their education.”
He is too threatening to limit federal funds for schools that teach the “critical theory of breed” or “gender ideology” and promised that he goes back Updated provisions of the title IX Under the Biden administration on the first day in the office.
The updated provisions that Biden administration published at the beginning of this year expand federal security for LGBTQ+students.
Final principle Reverses changes in title IX Made as part of the previous administration of Trump and the then Secretary for Education Betsy Devos.
Lots of countries run by GOP questioned this measure, which led to several legal battles and political patchwork throughout the country.
Student debt and higher education
Trump criticized the efforts of forgiveness of a student loan Biden, describing them as “not even legal” and can abandon all mass efforts of forgiveness of a student loan.
Trump may repeal administration saving on valuable education or saving the plan, which is currently suspended when it is associated with a legal challenge. The extensive initiative aims to ensure lower monthly loan payments for borrowers and reduce the time needed to pay the debt.
Meanwhile, GOP 2024 platform The universities were called to make “reasonable and accessible for affordable”, noting that the Republicans “shoot radical leftist accreditors, reduce the costs of tuition fees, restore the proper process of the process and implement cases related to civil rights against schools that discriminate against.”
The platform also requires a reduction in higher education by creating “additional, drastically cheaper alternatives for a traditional four -year diploma.”
Asset He also proposed “American Academy”, free, online university, which in his opinion would be endowed with “billions of dollars, which we collect by taxing, punishing and suing excessively large private foundations of universities.”
Project 2025
In addition to the GOP platform and Trump’s proposal, the 2025 Heritage Foundation Foundation proposes a wide conservative program, which, if implemented, can have grave implications for the future of education.
Although Trump threw out the conservative Think Tank plan, some former members of his previous administration helped create a program.
Some suggestions for education policy presented in extensive document Take into account the elimination of the US and Head Start Education Department, completion of the forgiveness of a student loan based on time and professional and restoring the provisions of IX made by Devos.
In the proposal, he also states that “the federal government should limit its involvement in educational policy to the policy of accumulating statistics, which distributes information for the states.”
The main teachers react to Trump’s victory
“Voters spoke. Hoping and we fought for another result, we respect both their will and peaceful transfer of power, “said Randi Weingarten, president of the American Teachers Federation, one of the largest teachers in the country in Wednesday’s statement.
“At the moment the country is more divided than ever, and our democracy is threatened. Last night we saw how fear and anger win, “said Weingarten.
Becky Pringle, president of the National Education Association, the largest trade union in the country, said in a statement on Wednesday that “this is not the result in which we conducted the campaign, or the future we wanted for our students and families, but this is the way through history now We have to travel. ”
Last updated 16:54, November 6, 2024
