Education is very important in our country, and there are people who agree to disagree with this statement. President-elect Donald Trump said that he would be getting rid of the Department of Education, as outlined in Project 2025.
According to nea.org, “Public education isn’t spared. Project 2025 promises to dismantle the Department of Education, a vow Donald Trump has repeated over and over on the campaign trail (and has been championed by GOP presidential candidates before him.).”
Trump has said that he did not know anything about Project 2025, and that it was his administrative team that made the document, but there are also people who say that he did know about the project.
The future of federal education, if Trump proceeds with this, could really change how children and young adults learn. There would be teachers who would lose their job, students who are looking for an education would have to find another way to get their education. Whether it be through home-schooling or online classes, this verdict could really shake things and how the education system will play out.
According to firstfocus.org, Project 2025 authors lay out their plan to “model” countrywide school choice initiatives on states like Arizona and Florida, where the expansion of vouchers has gutted accountability and encouraged deep levels of tax fraud.”
As far as the Department of Education in Florida, if federal education gets taken away, there will not be many options left for students or for people to really pursue an education. With the laws of education in Florida, there could be some controversial topics, one of them being LGBTQ+ rules.
According to edweek.org, as of June 13, 2023, at least 18 states including Florida have imposed bans and restrictions on how topics of race and gender identity can be taught in K-12 schools.
Florida is also among the 10 states since June that have passed laws allowing teachers to disregard students’ requested pronouns, or require parental permission for teachers to use trans and nonbinary students’ pronouns.
The Florida Department of Education’s public information officer was not able to give a response when asked. There are positives and negatives at stake with this going into effect. The negatives would be that there are teachers and others that are losing their jobs because of the federal education system being dismantled. There would have to be alternatives for parents so that their kids can get their education.
Who knows what will happen next with Florida’s Department of Education, but there are some who will say that the department does not need to be taken away due to children being able to get an education, teachers keeping their jobs, and more. There are also people who think that the department should be taken away due to their reasons as well. For more information, head tohttps://www.fldoe.org/