Red State Alert: How Dystopia and Double-Think Works to Accept Losing Your Basic Rights
Whether you are Black, Indigenous, Caucasian, Hispanic, a member of the LGBTQ+ community, a woman, or any possible combination thereof, adoption of the recommendations posited in Project 2025 and Project 47 is bound to hurt you, family members, and friends across the socioeconomic spectrum. Project 2025 is a 900-page “manifesto” compiled by the Heritage Foundation that lays out the plan for changing our current system of government and incorporates, instead, the darkest parts of right-wing ideology designed to be a detriment, especially to minorities of all types (including women).
There are many moving parts to Project 2025, and the discussion of this document can be overwhelming because it affects so many areas of our lives, as well as the institutions and policies that we cherish and have become rightfully accustomed to. The changes recommended are mind-boggling. To demonstrate this, let’s take a “deep dive” into one of the many proposed areas of federal government transformation to see what we stand to lose: The threat of defunding and abolishing the United States Department of Education. How will it impact the American people? First, it is essential to review the roles and responsibilities of this department in our lives and then transition to specific areas that will impact the general population.
Role of the Department of Education (note mention DEI and education institutions too)
The United States Department of Education's website provides information on specific programs and policies essential for ensuring the quality and equality of the educational process for American citizens. Five specific areas demonstrate the importance of this federal agency in creating an environment of equity and equality in education. A review of five important responsibilities of the Department of Education include:
Providing Title 1 Funding
for states to use for funding districts where there are a high number of children in poverty and attending schools in low-wealth communittes.
Civil Rights protections
School Accreditation
Disabilitiy———etc
Student loan programs
Policies and laws enacted that ……DEI for example…separate discussion and Project 2025 relationships
What this means for public schools, also mention law suits in my book and then reference.