Trump’s Project 2025 Will Savage Public Education

Daily Action
Written By Barbara Isaacman

QUICK READ: If elected, Donald Trump will destroy public education as we know it. We need well-educated citizens to compete in the 21st-century economy, think critically, and defend our democratic values. Trump’s denial of knowledge about Project 2025 is simply a lie to protect his campaign from the expanding backlash as citizens learn its cruel, destructive details.


CONTENTS:

BACKGROUND

Trump’s Project 2025 is a destructive, cruel plan designed to turn America into a far-right white Christian nationalist nation. 

Along with deporting millions of immigrants, persecuting political rivals, using the military to suppress domestic dissent, eliminating reproductive freedom, and significantly cutting billionaires’ taxes, Trump’s Project 2025 would destroy our public educational system, which is essential to preserving and promoting democratic values and training future leaders in fields ranging from the sciences and medicine to politics and the arts:

  • Eliminating the Department of Education, which ensures equal access to educational opportunities and promotes excellence from kindergarten to university, and phasing out federal educational funding;

  • Dismantling Head Start and Title I, which provides grants to K-12 schools with large populations of  low-income students;

  • Transferring taxpayer money from public schools to religious institutions;

  • Terminating student loan forgiveness programs and discouraging post-secondary education;

  • Suppressing and censoring history by removing references to race, gender, and sexuality from school curricula;

  • Certifying teachers based on their values;

  • Adopting a parents’ bill of rights giving them control over their children’s education; 

  • Banning DEI teaching in all educational institutions;

  • Eliminating protections for LGBQT+ students;

  • Ending federal funding for disabled students. 

Between now and November, we and our MoCs must remind voters how Trump’s Project 2025 will destroy our children’s ability to learn how to become happy and healthy adults.

ACTION One: Call the Senate.

Script for Oregon Senators

SEN. MERKLEY: Portland office: 503-326-3386 | D.C. office: 202-224-3753

My name is [--] and I'm a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code].

We cannot let Trump and his Project 2025 destroy our public educational system and return us to the days when students were at the mercy of state and local officials. As your constituent, I demand that you: (1) oppose MAGA Republicans’ attempts to legislatively impose Project 2025’s educational policies, and (2) educate your constituents about Trump’s Project 2025 and the many ways in which it will destroy all the gains we have made in creating a public educational system that preserves and promotes democratic values and trains our future leaders.

SEN. WYDEN:

Portland office: 503-326-7525 | D.C. office: 202-224-5244

My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code].

We cannot let Trump and his Project 2025 destroy our public educational system and return us to the days when students were at the mercy of state and local officials. As your constituent, I demand that you: (1) oppose MAGA Republicans’ attempts to legislatively impose Project 2025’s educational policies, and (2) educate your constituents about Trump’s Project 2025 and the many ways in which it will destroy all the gains we have made in creating a public educational system that preserves and promotes democratic values and trains our future leaders.

Script for Republican Senators

D.C switchboard: 202-224-3121

My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], [state], [zip code].

We cannot let Project 2025 destroy our public educational system and return us to the days when students were at the mercy of state and local officials. As your constituent, I demand that you: (1) oppose all attempts to legislatively impose Project 2025’s educational policies, and (2) speak out about the many ways in which Project 2025 will destroy all the gains we have made in creating a public educational system that preserves and promotes democratic values and trains our future leaders.

ACTION TWO: Call the House.

Script for Suzanne Bonamici (OR-01)

Oregon office: 503-469-6010 | DC office: 202-225-0855

My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code].

We cannot let Trump and his Project 2025 destroy our public educational system and return us to the days when students were at the mercy of state and local officials. As your constituent, I demand that you: (1) oppose MAGA Republicans’ attempts to legislatively impose Project 2025’s educational policies, and (2) educate your constituents about Trump’s Project 2025 and the many ways in which it will destroy all the gains we have made in creating a public educational system that preserves and promotes democratic values and trains our future leaders.

Script for Cliff Bentz (OR-02)

Medford office: 541-776-4646 | DC office: 202-225-6730

My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code].

We cannot let Project 2025 destroy our public educational system and return us to the days when students were at the mercy of state and local officials. As your constituent, I demand that you: (1) oppose all attempts to legislatively impose Project 2025’s educational policies, and (2) speak out about the many ways in which Project 2025 will destroy all the gains we have made in creating a public educational system that preserves and promotes democratic values and trains our future leaders.

Script for Earl Blumenauer (OR-03)

Oregon office: 503-231-2300 | DC office: 202-225-4811

My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code].

We cannot let Trump and his Project 2025 destroy our public educational system and return us to the days when students were at the mercy of state and local officials. As your constituent, I demand that you: (1) oppose MAGA Republicans’ attempts to legislatively impose Project 2025’s educational policies, and (2) educate your constituents about Trump’s Project 2025 and the many ways in which it will destroy all the gains we have made in creating a public educational system that preserves and promotes democratic values and trains our future leaders.

Script for Val Hoyle (OR-04)

Eugene office: 541-465-6732 | DC office: 202-225-6416

My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code].

We cannot let Trump and his Project 2025 destroy our public educational system and return us to the days when students were at the mercy of state and local officials. As your constituent, I demand that you: (1) oppose MAGA Republicans’ attempts to legislatively impose Project 2025’s educational policies, and (2) educate your constituents about Trump’s Project 2025 and the many ways in which it will destroy all the gains we have made in creating a public educational system that preserves and promotes democratic values and trains our future leaders.

SCRIPT FOR LORI CHAVEZ-DEREMER (OR-05)

Salem office: 503-588-9100 | DC office: 202-225-5711

My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code].

We cannot let Project 2025 destroy our public educational system and return us to the days when students were at the mercy of state and local officials. As your constituent, I demand that you: (1) oppose all attempts to legislatively impose Project 2025’s educational policies, and (2) speak out about the many ways in which Project 2025 will destroy all the gains we have made in creating a public educational system that preserves and promotes democratic values and trains our future leaders.

Script for Andrea Salinas (OR-06)

Salem office: 503-385-0906 | DC office: 202-225-5643

My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code].

We cannot let Trump and his Project 2025 destroy our public educational system and return us to the days when students were at the mercy of state and local officials. As your constituent, I demand that you: (1) oppose MAGA Republicans’ attempts to legislatively impose Project 2025’s educational policies, and (2) educate your constituents about Trump’s Project 2025 and the many ways in which it will destroy all the gains we have made in creating a public educational system that preserves and promotes democratic values and trains our future leaders.

ACTION THREE: Good Trouble.

Below are opportunities to fight for our democracy. As John Lewis said, go make some “good trouble.”

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