{"id":69258,"date":"2024-12-20T13:42:07","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T21:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=69258"},"modified":"2024-12-20T13:42:07","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T21:42:07","slug":"what-trumps-second-term-could-mean-for-u-s-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=69258","title":{"rendered":"What Trump\u2019s Second Term Could Mean for U.S. Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_author tdi_67 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_1 tdb-post-meta\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_67\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-author-name-wrap\"><span class=\"tdb-author-by\">By<\/span><a class=\"tdb-author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/ethnicmediaservices.org\/author\/selen-ozturk\/\">Selen Ozturk<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_date tdi_68 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_1 tdb-post-meta\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_68\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><i class=\"tdb-date-icon tdc-font-fa tdc-font-fa-calendar\"><\/i><time class=\"entry-date updated td-module-date\" datetime=\"2024-12-19T07:50:40-08:00\">Dec 19, 2024<\/time><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_subtitle tdi_69 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_1\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_69\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>The American education system is poised to be a battleground for funding, diversity and immigration issues under President Trump.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_featured_image tdi_70 tdb-content-horiz-left td-pb-border-top td_block_template_1\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_70\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"entry-thumb td-animation-stack-type0-2\" title=\"Screen Shot 2024-12-17 at 8.24.15 PM\" src=\"https:\/\/ethnicmediaservices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screen-Shot-2024-12-17-at-8.24.15-PM.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2396px) 100vw, 2396px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ethnicmediaservices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screen-Shot-2024-12-17-at-8.24.15-PM.png 2396w, https:\/\/ethnicmediaservices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screen-Shot-2024-12-17-at-8.24.15-PM-300x163.png 300w, https:\/\/ethnicmediaservices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screen-Shot-2024-12-17-at-8.24.15-PM-1024x556.png 1024w, https:\/\/ethnicmediaservices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screen-Shot-2024-12-17-at-8.24.15-PM-768x417.png 768w, https:\/\/ethnicmediaservices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screen-Shot-2024-12-17-at-8.24.15-PM-1536x833.png 1536w, https:\/\/ethnicmediaservices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screen-Shot-2024-12-17-at-8.24.15-PM-2048x1111.png 2048w, https:\/\/ethnicmediaservices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screen-Shot-2024-12-17-at-8.24.15-PM-150x81.png 150w, https:\/\/ethnicmediaservices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screen-Shot-2024-12-17-at-8.24.15-PM-696x378.png 696w, https:\/\/ethnicmediaservices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screen-Shot-2024-12-17-at-8.24.15-PM-1068x579.png 1068w, https:\/\/ethnicmediaservices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screen-Shot-2024-12-17-at-8.24.15-PM-1920x1042.png 1920w\" alt=\"\" width=\"2396\" height=\"1300\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_content tdi_71 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_1 td-post-content tagdiv-type\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_71\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>The American education system is poised to be a battleground for funding, diversity and immigration issues under President Trump.<\/p>\n<p>On his campaign trail, Trump has mentioned ending the U.S. Department of Education; rolling back federal funding of public schools, particularly those maintaining diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies; supporting vouchers allowing parents, even wealthy ones, to receive taxpayer money to send their kids to private schools; and overturning Title IX, a law prohibiting sex-based discrimination which was expanded under Biden to include sexual orientation- and gender-based discrimination.<\/p>\n<p>In late November, Trump picked Linda McMahon to be the next Department of Education (ED) secretary; McMahon, a major Republican donor, is also co-chair of his presidential transition team; former Small Business Administration head under his first term; and founder, former president and former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE).<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">K-12 and higher education<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cWe can expect lots of resistance if Trump tries to proceed with plans to dismantle the Department of Education, and it will come from unlikely quarters, including other Republicans in Congress and the Senate,\u201d said Pedro Noguera, dean of the University of Southern California Rossier School of Education. \u201cEliminating the department won\u2019t eliminate public education, but it would jeopardize oversight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>About 90% of general K-12 public education is state- and local government-funded, with 10% \u2014 about $800 billion in 2021 \u2014 coming from the federal government.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"2522VwqlE24\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"widget2\" title=\"Voters Have Repeatedly Shown a \u2018Distaste\u2019 for School Voucher Initiatives\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2522VwqlE24?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1\" width=\"100%\" height=\"392\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Pedro Noguera, Dean of the USC Rossier School of Education, explains why school voucher initiatives regularly fail at the ballot, even in red states, despite being a Republican-advanced initiative.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s more federal funding at stake in compensatory cases, like special education and schools in impoverished areas,\u201d he explained. \u201cMany of these kids are from Republican families and areas, and cutbacks to that support are going to get pushback.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Title I, a grant program established in 1965 for disadvantaged schools, commits the federal government to fund 40% of per-pupil special education costs, although actual funding has always remained below 20%, and was less than 13% in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Schools with at least 40 percent of students from low-income families are also eligible for Title I. In 2022, these and similar Title I funds for impoverished schools accounted for $15.6 billion; about 63% of public schools in the country\u2019s over 13,000 districts were eligible.<\/p>\n<p>In his first and upcoming administration, Trump has also supported private school choice proposals including tax credit vouchers, a measure overwhelmingly rejected in 2018 by voters in states including Arizona, Nebraska, Kentucky and Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>However, backing from wealthy conservatives has led nearly a dozen states to create or expand private school voucher or savings programs in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>Despite resistance to policies like these, often from their own voter base, \u201ca lot of what is driving the administration right now is ideology aimed at launching and sustaining culture wars, like attacks on transgender students and DEI \u2026 without bridging the educational gaps our students face,\u201d said Nogura.<\/p>\n<p>According to ED data, 54% of Americans between ages 16 and 74 read below a sixth grade level.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur demographics are changing to include more students traditionally left out of our nation\u2019s education priorities, and I don\u2019t see the incoming administration\u2019s policies doing better by them,\u201d said Thomas Toch, director of the FutureEd program at Georgetown University\u2019s McCourt School of Public Policy.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"1Kz5eLgoy8I\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"widget4\" title=\"Understanding School Voucher Programs\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1Kz5eLgoy8I?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1\" width=\"100%\" height=\"392\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Thomas Toch, Director, FutureEd, Georgetown University\u2019s McCourt School of Public Policy, explains the premise of school voucher programs and how they have evolved over the decades.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Higher education policies supported by Trump include taxing endowments, nearly half of which are held by 22 out of nearly 6,000 U.S. colleges and universities; reducing oversight of for-profit institutions like the unaccredited Trump University, which ceased in 2010 after several lawsuits; reducing federal Pell Grants and work-study programs like AmeriCorps; and ending loan forgiveness and DEI initiatives created under President Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Toch added that \u201cInternational students are also at risk, given the administration\u2019s promises to limit legal and illegal immigration into the US,\u201d particularly given Trump\u2019s pick of first-term immigration hard-liner Stephen Miller as the White House deputy chief of staff for policy.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Legal challenges<\/h2>\n<p>Legal precedents present major barriers to other Trump-supported policies, like immigration status-dependent public school attendance and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) rollbacks, said Thomas A. Saenz, president and general counsel of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund.<\/p>\n<p><em>Plyler v. Doe<\/em>, the 1982 Supreme Court decision guaranteeing every child the right to attend free K-12 public school, \u201cis not in any imminent danger at all,\u201d he explained. \u201cI know we\u2019ve seen a court majority that has overturned long-standing precedent for reproductive choice and affirmative action, but both cases were results of decades-long overturning campaigns by the right, which is not the case with Plyler.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"OY1BrJpn20Y\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"widget6\" title=\"Why It Is in Trump\u2019s Interest to Support DACA Recipients\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OY1BrJpn20Y?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1\" width=\"100%\" height=\"392\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Thomas A. Saenz, President and General Counsel, Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, notes the \u201cmassive\u201d bipartisan support for Dreamers and explains why it is politically expedient for Trump to support DACA recipients.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>Plyler<\/em>\u00a0decision, which has been incorporated into federal statutory law, would also prevent raids by ICE or individual immigration officers on public K-12 school campuses.<\/p>\n<p>When the Supreme Court overturned Trump\u2019s attempt to eliminate DACA in 2020, it did not have the six-to-three Republican-appointed majority it currently does.<\/p>\n<p>However, eliminating DACA would be more difficult in Trump\u2019s second term than the first attempt, which was done through an announcement by the Attorney General to change an Obama-era policy.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, the Biden administration strengthened DACA through a formal regulatory rule-making process. This means that eliminating DACA would require an extensive process involving a public proposal in the Federal Register with public comment and government response periods.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany of the anti-discrimination protections and civil rights we count on in education are even more protected by legislation which would require action from a Congress that, despite formal Republican control, is quite evenly split in the House of Representatives, where it would be difficult to enact anything without unanimous Republican support,\u201d Saenz said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we will get is a daily barrage of rhetoric that is anti-immigrant, anti-DEI, anti-civil rights and anti-public education, including overstated powers of the President to do what he wants,\u201d he continued. \u201cIt\u2019s a calculated campaign to convince local decision makers, including school district officials, to withdraw on their own from these issues \u2026 But that rhetoric can\u2019t be made real in most cases without congressional action.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy biggest concern is that rhetoric still has repercussions. People get scared by it, even if it\u2019s not followed up by action. We certainly saw that under the first Trump administration,\u201d he added. \u201cWe need to do the best we can to prepare for that rhetoric, and remember that the President and his cabinet members do not have dictatorial power. They still have to follow due process for the major changes they\u2019d like to see.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BySelen Ozturk Dec 19, 2024 The&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,9,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-opinion","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69259,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69258\/revisions\/69259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}