Jessica Alcantara (’16), Senior Staff Attorney, and Laura Petty (’23) current Fellow, both with Advancement Project, published an article in Time outlining the dangers of the Project 2025 policy agenda that would likely dismantle the U.S. Department of Education, as well as federal support for public schools, in favor of private voucher programs (“Project 2025’s Plan to Eliminate Public Schools Has Already Started,” Jul. 22). Jessica and Laura warned that the plan isn’t contingent on Trump’s re-election. “[I]t’s already happening. The policies that Project 2025 plans to prioritize—government payments to families sending their children to private school and creation of new charter schools that are run like businesses—have expanded in the last few years, starving public school districts that serve all students of already insufficient resources.” Still, they remain hopeful there is another way forward. “Project 2025 is not an inevitability—it is a call to action for anyone who cares about public education in this country. Our public school system requires more resources to create better school environments for everyone. We need investment in our public schools—not closures.”
