Project 2025’s plans for the Department of Education are extremely radical, overhauling how schooling in the US is administered from the ground up. What will the impact of this seismic shift be?
The education policy section is written by Lindsey M. Burke, director for the Centre for Education at the Heritage Foundation, and it should come as no surprise that their mandate for schooling is quite radical and entirely centred around the family rather than federally determined learning requirements.
Essentially Burke argues that parents should be given direct access to education funds via an education savings account (ESA){{Mandate For Leadership, Page 319}}. The money in this ESA would …
