Trump Ed Department Backs Extremist Agenda for Schools
Coalition includes Prager U, Turning Point USA
If revisionist history and American exceptionalism are your kind of thing, you’re in luck with the new Trump education agenda.
Save Our Schools Arizona has the details.
The Trump administration has launched a partisan “patriotic” education coalition that includes US ED and more than 40 partner groups, all of which are closely aligned with the president’s MAGA movement — including Prager U, the Heritage Foundation, Moms for Liberty, Turning Point USA, America First Legal, Hillsdale College, ALEC, the Goldwater Institute, and more — to create civics programming for public schools across the nation. Many of these organizations are involved in efforts to stop teaching civil rights material, oust school board members who believe in teaching social justice, ban books, and whitewash history lessons. In the US ED press release, Turning Point USA claimed to be “more resolved than ever to advance God-centered, virtuous education for students… to restore, revive, and reclaim robust American civics education for all students throughout our country.” This extremist civics takeover is paired with a renewed push to open Turning Point USA chapters in schools across the US, with Oklahoma’s (now resigned) state superintendent calling for a mandate that every high school in the state open one, and PACs offering students cash to open TPUSA chapters.