I read the education section and as far as I can tell, the plan
a) moves all remaining parts of the Dept of Education to other agencies, who lack expertise in education issues --and well may be staffed in good part by those "loyalists" through Schedule F and
b) provide block grants to states instead of targeted funding. The states can use those grants for "anything lawful." All a state has to do is pass a law about school vouchers to faith based schools and it looks like it could spend ALL its federal funding on such vouchers. And the size of the grants would be population based--so the federal taxes of a Jewish family in New York could go to some evangelical school with no oversight to be sure they actually teach basic education. This is in addition to all the other disadvantages of school vouchers you mention.
c) remove accreditation requirements for Federal funding from post-secondary education. Shysters and the woodwork oozing them.
d) thinks "parental rights" should be elevated to the same level as free speech and "religious liberty" without, of course, any plan for the rights of parents who oppose MAGA values in education.
On Agriculture--the idea of making food labeling "voluntary" endangers the very lives of those of us with food-based allergies and auto immune conditions. I have celiac disease. My shopping consist of squinting at labels, particularly when the stores think "gluten free" means "natural" or "healthy" and fill the shelves marked "gluten free" with "plant based choices." Spoiler alert--wheat is a plant, as are rye and barley. I've been hospitalized twice for reaction to accidental "glutening." It would be even worse for people with nut allergies or things that can bring death in minutes.
Thank you for working into the nitty gritty of the P2025 sections. "Eliminate the Dept of Education" seems fairly "meh" as a concept. What it would MEAN is way scarier than the bland idea that less regulation is better in some abstract way.
I read the education section and as far as I can tell, the plan
a) moves all remaining parts of the Dept of Education to other agencies, who lack expertise in education issues --and well may be staffed in good part by those "loyalists" through Schedule F and
b) provide block grants to states instead of targeted funding. The states can use those grants for "anything lawful." All a state has to do is pass a law about school vouchers to faith based schools and it looks like it could spend ALL its federal funding on such vouchers. And the size of the grants would be population based--so the federal taxes of a Jewish family in New York could go to some evangelical school with no oversight to be sure they actually teach basic education. This is in addition to all the other disadvantages of school vouchers you mention.
c) remove accreditation requirements for Federal funding from post-secondary education. Shysters and the woodwork oozing them.
d) thinks "parental rights" should be elevated to the same level as free speech and "religious liberty" without, of course, any plan for the rights of parents who oppose MAGA values in education.
On Agriculture--the idea of making food labeling "voluntary" endangers the very lives of those of us with food-based allergies and auto immune conditions. I have celiac disease. My shopping consist of squinting at labels, particularly when the stores think "gluten free" means "natural" or "healthy" and fill the shelves marked "gluten free" with "plant based choices." Spoiler alert--wheat is a plant, as are rye and barley. I've been hospitalized twice for reaction to accidental "glutening." It would be even worse for people with nut allergies or things that can bring death in minutes.
Thank you for working into the nitty gritty of the P2025 sections. "Eliminate the Dept of Education" seems fairly "meh" as a concept. What it would MEAN is way scarier than the bland idea that less regulation is better in some abstract way.