Project 2025
(The Planned Destruction of Public Education)
Reject Project 2025
** We will be updating this site with more information and resources continuously. We must REJECT Project 2025 by electing Biden-Harris, as well as winning the House and keeping the Senate.
Welcome to our SOPE-OC Project 2025 Information and Advocacy Page
Our goal with this page is to expose the right-wing extremist agenda detailed in their Project 2025 manifesto by informing as many people as possible and providing resources that can be shared.
"In a democracy, the central aim of public education needs to be to create an informed, involved, critically-thoughtful citizenry committed to the long-term welfare of the community and the collective pursuit of a just, healthy, and inclusive society."
- From Betty Bardige, Early Childhood Consultant, Author & Advocate
Project 2025’s Plan for Public Education
Project 2025 has an agenda for public schools: Destroy your neighborhood public schools and make parents shop for schooling using vouchers. Even as that is occurring, it would whittle away protections and support for LGBTQ students, disadvantaged students, and students with disabilities. Watch our explainer and find out how.
Network for Public Education
Our mission: to preserve, promote, improve and strengthen public schools for both current and future generations of students.
https://networkforpubliceducation.org/
Watch this 2 minute video to learn more: Project 2025's Agenda to Destroy Public Schools
Our Schools USA - Great Resource!
Our Schools USA is dedicated to empowering parents, students, and community members to protect quality public education for all students.
Visit Our Schools USA Podcasts to listen to their five part series that breaks down the Project 2025 rightwing extremist plan for public education - see episode descriptions at the bottom of this page!
Head of the Class Podcast - A weekly conversation between the founders of Our Schools USA, covering the latest headlines and hot topics in public education.
Hosted by Christina Gagnier, a former school board member, and Kristi Hirst, a former teacher and current public school parent.
You listen to the podcast on your favorite streaming service or catch the video version on YouTube.
The Far Right Plan for 2025: Part II: "Hard-Earned" Rights
DEC 13, 2023 SEASON 1 EPISODE 23
Our Schools USA
In this episode, Kristi & Christina dig into Project 2025, an initiative coordinated by The Heritage Foundation, specifically focusing on proposals that would dismantle the federal Department of Education as we know it.
Far-right extremists want rollback civil rights protections that were put in place by the Biden Administration, taking away protections put in place to shield some of the most targeted students from discrimination and harassment.
This is the second in a series of four (eh, probably five) podcasts breaking down the far-right's plan to undermine public schools.
The Far Right Plan for 2025: Part III: Special Education, Free Lunch & Radical Ideology
DEC 13, 2023 SEASON 1 EPISODE 24
Our Schools USA
In this episode, Kristi & Christina dig into Project 2025, an initiative coordinated by The Heritage Foundation, specifically focusing on proposals that would dismantle the federal Department of Education as we know it.
In the media, and supported by this document, far-right extremists have the federal free lunch program (as well as the state-level universal free lunch programs) in their crosshairs. The surprise, to boot, is their target of special education.
This is the third in a series of four (eh, probably five) podcasts breaking down the far-right's plan to undermine public schools.
The Far Right Plan for 2025: Part IV: Teachers' Unions and Parents' Rights
JAN 09, 2024 SEASON 1 EPISODE 27
Our Schools USA
In this episode, Kristi & Christina continue to dig into Project 2025, an initiative coordinated by The Heritage Foundation, specifically focusing on proposals that would dismantle the federal Department of Education as we know it.
The far-right has created this anti-teacher union narrative, reflected in Project 2025. They have further tried to create this contentious dichotomy of teachers versus parents, which is eroding the trust and collaboration relationship that is imperative for students and families in our public schools.
Also, they included this hot take: “There is no conclusive evidence that taxpayer spending on schools improves student outcomes.”
Hmmm....
This is the fourth in a series of five (yes, we ended up deciding five) podcasts breaking down the far-right's plan to undermine public schools.
The Far Right Plan for 2025: Part V: Defund It All
JAN 16, 2024 SEASON 1 EPISODE 28
Our Schools USA
In this episode, Kristi & Christina continue to dig into Project 2025, an initiative coordinated by The Heritage Foundation, specifically focusing on proposals that would dismantle the federal Department of Education as we know it.
School privatization is the topic of conversation, and the far-right wants to not only take taxpayer dollars away from public schools, but, ultimately, not fund education at all.
This is the fifth and final podcast in this series breaking down the far-right's plan to undermine public schools.