May 29, 2025
Trump administration’s reduction and attacks are just the beginning.
Burn it. This is what it seems, the ruling strategy of the Trump administration – especially when it comes to education. Cancel grants and contracts. Shoot off staff. Grind the statement about the mission. Close the department.
However, in the coming months and years our understanding of history will probably change. If we look at what has happened after the administration has shrunk to the bone, we will probably see that there is another strategy.
At the heart of the Dage-Maga alliance are two organizational philosophy. The first is the vile understanding of Elon Musk that pruning organizational “fat” can only be done, cutting off the “muscles” to which it is attached. Organizations, in other words, can be stronger at the expense of a fundamental electoral operation. The second philosophy is Donald Trump’s opinion that the leaders are running high. The main executives should not be subjected to the rules and politically not subjected to civil servants.
Make them together and what you get is a double-part strategy. First, clean the institutions. Then build them back in such a way that provides complete loyalty to the person above.
In the field of education, the public was mostly focused on the first act – the emptying of institutions – as if the second act would not come. Large much is because Donald Trump cry Close the US Department of Education, which seems to be doing. Important, however Ronald ReaganThe 1980 presidential campaign. The closure of the Ministry of Education continues to play well with voters; But it is rather a symbolic goal than the main goal. Yes, there were mass dismissals. Yes, reducing grants and contracts were devastating. Yes, the agency’s work is scattered into the wind. But it’s not there that the story ends.
In the second act, the administration will start creating its educational program. And, as it restores the so-called muscles, it will be within what is called the Education Department-it will do so for the purpose of purely guerrilla policy. This is ultimately what the public should track because it is a much more threatening gambit. Education alignment would be one; Weapons are completely different.
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The signs of what such a restored educational program will look like are already taken into account. Take, for example, “patriotic education” – Trump’s occupation that gave rise to 1776 Commission During the fright of one’s first term. As signaling Executive order By banning “radical ideological treatment in the K-12 education”, the administration still strives for the federal report that the president Claim national incentives It stops. “Children will teach love America. Children will teach being patriots,” the recent Press -conference. “Children will teach civil values for schools who want the financing of the federal taxpayer.”
Trump-Lalala’s officials are already doing their part for taking the administration ambitions. In Oklahoma, New social research standards Require high school students “determine discrepancies in the 2020 elections”, including widely resolved requirements for alleged fraud with voters. After the state Senate of Oklahoma refused to vote on conflicting requirements, the new standards adopted by the default. Ryan Walters, the chief official, accepted the Victory Circle, noting that he described As “Neapologically conservative, pro -American standards of social research in the country.”
We can also expect that the Education Department will press state, school districts and schools to abandon the programs and policies that Trump opposes. Eg investigation From the Denver High School, where the students successfully lobbyed to create a gender neutral bathroom. Such politically motivated probes will become more common in the following months. According to the compatible states, the administration will use its armed department of education to make unprecedented requirements for what is happening in the classes.
The administration will also use its educational muscles to privatize the K-12 education. Laid into the budget reconciliation bill, Law on Education for ChildrenThis is a private school voucher scheme that also functions as tax shelter for wealthy. Having conducted public dollars in private schools, the program immediately benefits the richest families in the country through taxpayers and likely to increase participation in Vouchers funded by the state. At the same time, those who contribute to organizations that make the voucher use unprecedented 100 percent compensation, and avoid capital gains for corporate stock gifts.
Finally, the White House will continue to work on the period of college and universities in America. Trump’s war with Harvard dominates the headlines, but more about the plan of the administration to restrict access to higher education. Americans have long seen school as primary vehicle To make the country more equal. However, Trump deflects this completely, seeing the equality of opportunities not as a worthy pursuit, but rather as erroneous effort to smooth natural hierarchies. According to the administration, the nation sends too many children to college who do not belong to the wrong social engineering. The White House budget as well as an extra array of GOP higher education offers, will make student loans more expensive and reduce students Suitability to grant Pell. And this is probably just the beginning. Y en interview since The Wall Street Journal Last year, the influential human rights activist Christopher Rufa said his goal is to reduce the number of students attending the college by half.
There was no small number by hand about reducing the number of federal government, especially in education. Over the past four months, we have witnessed the retreat from institutional responsibility, degradation of organizational infrastructure and a sharp reduction in staff and budgets. But the real drama is just beginning, and we should not be mistaken with this interior for the end of production.
Having laid the waste for the animated vision of the federal participation in education and to the structural ability for the implementation of this vision, the Trump administration began to raise the curtain in the second act. And although the second half of this tragedy has not yet been written, the story points are clear. If we do not intervene, it ends with a disaster.
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