PROJECT 2025 –  #22 – August 1, 2024 - Department of Education - Part 2

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

[KEY ELEMENT - as the federal government administers education programs for District of Columbia, Department of Defense facilities and Native Americans, DOE will basically mandate many of the changes and then encourage states to adopt them]

21. Prevent teaching of critical race theory 

22. school officials should not require students or teachers to believe that individuals are guilty or responsible for the actions of others based on race or ethnicity. 

23. Work to pass a federal. Parents Bill of Rights that restores parental rights to a “top tier” right. Such legislation would give families a fair hearing in court when the federal government enforces any policy against parents in a way that undermines their right and responsibility to raise, educate, and care for their children. The law would require the government to satisfy “strict scrutiny”—the highest standard of judicial review—when the government infringes parental rights

24. Work with Congress to provide parent and students over the age of 18 years with a private right of action to seek injunctive and declaratory relief, together with attorney’s fees and costs against educational institutions and agencies that violate rights enshrined in these statutes.

25. No public education employee or contractor shall use a name to address a student other than the name listed on a student's birth certificate, without the written permission of a student's parents or guardian

26. No public education employee or contractor shall use a pronoun in addressing the student that is different from the students biological sex without the written permission of a student's parents or guardians.

27. No public institution may require an education employee or contractor to use a pronoun that does not match the person's biological sex if contrary to the  employees or contractors religious or moral conviction

28. Based on the funding spent in DC Public Schools ($22,856 per child) - Congress should expand voucher programs to all students, regardless of income or background; All families should be able to take their children's taxpayer funded education dollars to the education providers of their choosing, whether it be public or private school; A portion of a child’s federal education spending should be deposited in a private spending account that parents can use to pay for personal tutors, education therapists, books and curricular materials, private school tuition, transportation and more

29. Over ten years, phase out federal funding for low-income families and turn over to states.

30. Allow states can opt out of federal programs

31. Prohibit accreditation agencies from mandating diversity, equity, and inclusion policies.

32. Protect the sovereignty of states to decide governance and leadership issues for state-supported colleges and universities by prohibiting accreditation agencies from intruding upon the governance of state-supported educational institutions.

33. Protect faith-based institutions by prohibiting accreditation agencies from requiring standards or criteria that undermine religious beliefs.

34. Encourage the establishment of new accreditation agencies.

35. Especially directed towards China, reinforce Federal laws directing colleges and universities to report gifts from sources outside the US worth $250,000 or more.

36. Require the Secretary of Education to allocate at least 40% of funding to international business programs that teach about free market and economics, and require institutions, faculty, and fellowship recipients to certify that they intend to further the stated statutory goals of serving American interests.

37. The President should issue an executive order stating that a college degree shall not be required for any federal job unless the requirements of the job specifically demand it.

38. The president should issue an executive order removing the list of educational institutions claiming religious exemption from the Office of Civil Rights at the Department of Education.

39. The president should issue a series of executive orders requiring an accounting of how federal programs/ grants spread DEI/ CRT/ gender ideology.

40. The president should issue an executive order pursuing antitrust against college accreditors, especially the American Bar Association.

41. Cut bloc grants to states by 10%

42. graduate student loans and loans to the parents of undergraduate students, should be eliminated 

43. end student loan forgiveness programs