Former President Donald Trump has released a collection of proposals for education policy in one of the first major policy rollouts of his presidential campaign. True to form, it isn’t an argument about how to improve the education system. It is instead an inflammatory call for expanding reactionary culture wars in our schooling system. It’s also a signal that Trump wants to out-MAGA his potential 2024 rival Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis when it comes to turning American education into a tool of white nationalist propaganda.
It doesn’t view policy as a way to improve human flourishing, but as a vehicle to reshape American society around right-wing identity anxieties.
Trump’s proposals are a demand that the American education system should be transformed into an ultra right-wing indoctrination pipeline. In a video released Thursday, he calls for cutting off federal funding for schools and programs including “critical race theory, gender ideology, or other inappropriate racial,…
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