The page numbers provided link directly to the relevant sections in the Project 2025 document.

Project 2025 and Education

Edmond Democratic Women, a group of your friends and neighbors, is deeply concerned about the plans contained within Project 2025, a 900+ document that details the agenda for a second Trump administration. EDW is committed to sharing what we have learned from this document. Defeating this plan is the number one reason to vote on November 5 to elect Democrats. Each week, we will do a deep dive into the parts of the plan that have the most potential to harm Oklahoma families and businesses.

We are especially concerned about the Education policies in P25 because, as Oklahomans, we know that some of these plans are already being implemented place in our state. Actions by Governor Stitt, Ryan Walters, and the Republican supermajority at our state capitol are already rolling back decades of progress.

As concerned Oklahomans are aware, these actions include using public money as vouchers for private schools, using tax dollars for Christian schools, turning away federal funds for Title I programs, banning books, and mandating Christian education in public schools. Herein, we unpack the most damaging public and higher education proposals.

Project 2025 specifically spells out plans to:

• Eliminate the US Department of Education. This action means that states would have to pay for all their schools, which could result in less money for schools in poorer areas. [319]
  
  
• Eliminate Title I and the Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA). These programs have been vital in supporting underserved student populations and encouraging states to raise expectations for student learning. [5] [319] [351]
  
  
• Erode public education by eliminating public schools, including $787 million for our Oklahoma Public Schools.  [5] [319] [351]
  
  
• Eliminates the Head Start Program, which would mean many children from poor families would no longer have access to preschool. [482]
  
  
• Plans to significantly reduce access to the Free School Lunch Program. This would mean that many children may not have enough to eat at school, eliminating another safety net for Oklahoma's children who experience food insecurity. [303]
  
  
• Would roll back federal student loan programs. These programs are critical to ensuring that higher education is not reserved for only the wealthy and well-connected. By cutting federal loan programs that help parents of college students, graduate students, and immigrants afford higher education, Project 2025 would forever change higher education. [327]

Why would we want to make a college education harder to access? Who would that serve? Not Edmond families, not the university, not our local businesses. What agenda could possibly be served by further restricting food access for the most vulnerable kids in the system? Why would we want to block anyone's access to higher education?

Why would the authoritarian architects of Project 2025 seek to decimate our nation’s educational system and create an undereducated, uninformed populus? The answer is as simple as it is shocking:

A lower and middle class of uneducated masses is considered a feature, not a bug.

We have the power to defeat this plan by using our voice –our sacred right to vote– on November 5. We encourage you to follow our social media and website every week between now and the election to learn all you can about the importance of defeating Project 2025.