00:00Linda McMahon, the education secretary, her slogan for dismantling the department is returning education to the states.
00:06Some people say that that is exactly what they're doing and should be doing.
00:10Others say it's a bit of a euphemism.
00:12The truth is local school districts, state governments already have are responsible for the vast majority of funding, decision making
00:21and governance at schools, at universities.
00:24But I think the argument is that even those grant programs, even that money that is at the federal government
00:29is, you know, when it's managed from on high from from from D.C., that it's it's it's managed poorly.
00:36I think a lot of us are familiar with this product, the Heritage Foundation, this conservative think tank put out
00:41now a couple of years ago, Project 2025.
00:44The president has tried to disavow himself from it.
00:48But when you thumb through that document and look at what was written about the future of the Department of
00:54Education, how much of what's in there has come to pass here in the second term of President Trump's administration?
00:59Quite a lot of it.
01:01There's good reason for that.
01:03Lindsay Burke, who wrote the section on education in Project 2025, is a senior policy advisor to McMahon at the
01:09department.
01:10The three step plan broadly outlined in the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 is is being followed fairly closely by the
01:21administration.
01:22It starts with sweeping layoffs.
01:23We saw those last year.
01:25The next step is to take the pieces of the department that they want to preserve.
01:30Their plan is to move them into other federal agencies.
01:32They've already started to move huge chunks of funding from the offices of post-secondary and elementary education into the
01:41Department of Labor.
01:42The final step in Project 2025 is to take whatever's left and convince basically to convince Congress to ax the
01:50whole thing.
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