Trump Dismantling the Department of Education Will Hurt Black Students in SE Michigan

By Cody Yarbrough, Contributing Writer “Federal education policy should be limited and, ultimately, the federal Department of Education should be eliminated.” These are the very first words in chapter 19 of Project 2025. Published in April of 2023, Project 2025 is a 920-page plan put together by the Heritage Foundation that details exactly how they can “reclaim our country” during the next c conservative presidency. The document is filled with ideas on how to destroy the new “woke culture” by abolishing diversity programs, stripping women of their reproduction rights, ending government assistance for those in need, promoting a singular White-nationalist interpretation of Christianity, and so much more. Yet, out of all the grim details that put together the dystopian future described in Project 2025, the one that is most concerning is their plan for our children. A plan that President-elect Donald Trump has already announced he intends to proceed with during his first days in office. Since the beginning of his 2024 campaign, he’s proudly proclaimed that he’ll do away with the department if reelected. Of course, politicians will say anything and everything to gain support and votes, and at the time, this rhetoric seemed to be nothing more than...