Throughout his campaign, he depicted schools as a political battleground to be won back from the left.
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s vision for education revolves around a single goal: to rid America’s schools of perceived"wokeness"and “left-wing indoctrination.”
Trump’s opponents say his vision of America’s schools is warped by politics — that the type of liberal indoctrination he rails against is a fiction. They say his proposals will undermine public education and hurt the students who need schools’ services the most.“It’s fear-based, non-factual information, and I would call it propaganda,” said Wil Del Pilar, senior vice president for Education Trust, a research and advocacy organization.
Colleges rely more heavily on federal money, especially the grants and loans the government gives students to pay for tuition. Trump also has hinted at potential legislation to deliver some of his promises, including fining universities over diversity initiatives. Most of the threats came to nothing, though he succeeded in getting Congress to add a tax on wealthy university endowments, and his Education Department made sweeping changes to rules around campus sexual assault.
“We’re going to end education coming out of Washington, D.C.,” Trump said on his website last year. In his platform, he pledged to ensure schools are “free from political meddling.”Rather than letting states and schools decide their stance on polarizing issues, Trump is proposing blanket bans that align with his vision.
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