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.

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    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.

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      Education enforcement to be done by the police officers who currently sit at desks at the front of the school looking bored?

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    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?

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      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.

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        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.

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          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.

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      Isn’t it weird that more stupid and uneducated people meaning more republican voters?

      But I’m not American so what do I know.

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      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.

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        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?