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Inside the Trump Administration’s Plan to Change Public Education ProPublica 9 January 2026
Inside the Trump Administration’s Plan to Change Public Education video ProPublica 9 January 2026
Linda McMahon, the nation’s secretary of education, says public schools are failing.
In November, she promised a “hard reset” of the system in which more than 80% of U.S. children learn.
But rather than invest in public education, she has been working to dismantle the Department of Education and enact wholesale changes to how public schools operate.
To help her carry out these and other goals, McMahon has brought on at least 20 advisers from ultraconservative think tanks and advocacy groups who share her skepticism of the value of public education and seek deep changes, including instilling Christian values into public schools.
ProPublica reporters Jennifer Smith Richards and Megan O’Matz spent months reporting and reviewing dozens of hours of video to understand the ideals and ambitions of those pulling the levers of power in federal education policy.
They found a concerted push to shrink public school systems by steering taxpayer dollars to private schools, religious schools and options like homeschooling, and promotion of more “patriotic” curricula.
The Education Department did not respond to a detailed list of questions from ProPublica.
In this video, Smith Richards and O’Matz explain how McMahon and her advisers are reenvisioning the nation’s educational system and what that could mean for the future.
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NYq_N6fO-w&t=16s
You Are Not a Loan The Intercept 25 January 2021
You Are Not a Loan Video The Intercept 25 January 2021
Right before Covid-19 disrupted our lives, I assembled a group of activists and academics to discuss the crisis of higher education and what was next for the growing movement to cancel student debt and make college and university tuition free.
The 45-minute film “You Are Not a Loan” is a record of this encounter, which took place on February 7, 2020.
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWSkDCx8gH4
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