Project 2025 is pitching a US school system makeover—but it’s giving more chaos than curriculum.
Okay, imagine if the U.S. education system were a Jenga tower. Now imagine someone comes in, yells “States’ rights!” and pulls out the Department of Education. That’s basically what Project 2025 is proposing—and educators are clutching their dry-erase markers in panic.
Project 2025 is a political plan dreamed up by conservative think tanks that would basically Marie Kondo the federal government—starting with education. The big idea? Get rid of the Department of Education entirely, slash federal funding, and hand the reins over to individual states. Because nothing says “consistent quality education” like letting 50 different states do whatever they want. And it’s not just a spring cleaning. Title I funding—which helps low-income schools—might be toast. So, schools that already have to run bake sales to buy pencils? They’d be out here crowdfunding for textbooks.
Then there’s special education. The plan suggests giving states a block of money and saying, “Good luck, kids!” No more guaranteed protections under IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act). Depending on where you live, that could mean your special ed services range from “barely functioning” to “nonexistent.”
But wait, there’s more! Project 2025 also wants to shut down what it calls “radical indoctrination” in schools. Translation: kiss goodbye to discussions about gender identity, race, and anything else that might make your uncle at Thanksgiving uncomfortable. Supporters say it’s all about freedom, parental rights, and going back to basics (cue the Little House on the Prairie soundtrack). But critics—aka most educators—say this sounds less like reform and more like sabotage wrapped in a school board meeting.
Is the Department of Education perfect? Of course not. But axing it feels a little like deciding to fix your car by setting it on fire and hitchhiking instead.
Whether you’re a parent, student, or just someone who still has nightmares about group projects, Project 2025 is worth paying attention to. Because even if you haven’t thought about federal education policy since social studies class, it’s about to hit closer to home than you think.
We don’t reduce crime by cutting schools.
This Isn’t Just About Schools. It’s About Futures.
Let’s be real: when we talk about education policy, we’re also talking about crime, poverty, and whether kids grow up with actual choices—or just survival tactics. Slashing public school funding, ignoring special ed needs, and politicizing curriculums doesn’t just leave teachers hanging—it leaves entire generations unprepared.
And what happens when kids don’t get the support they need? They fall through the cracks. They drop out. They get funneled into the exact systems we claim we’re trying to fix—like overcrowded prisons and broken welfare cycles.
We don’t fix crime by locking up more people. We fix it by giving kids better paths to begin with.
Project 2025 isn’t just a bad deal for schools. It’s a warning sign for the kind of country we’re shaping—for your kids, your neighbors’ kids, and the kid who just wants a desk, a teacher who sees them, and a future that doesn’t start in a detention center.
