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Donald Trump Unveils Plans to ‘Save American Education’ from ‘Radical-Left Maniacs’

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Former President Donald J. Trump on Thursday detailed his comprehensive education policy platform which aims to “restore power to American parents.” It includes plans to cut funding to schools and programs that push radical left-wing ideologies like “Critical Race Theory and gender ideology,” and keeping boys out girls’ sports.

Trump unveiled his “plan to save American education” by noting that “[o]ur public schools have been taken over by the radical left maniacs.”

First and foremost, Trump pledged to “cut federal funding for any school or program pushing critical race theory, gender ideology, or other inappropriate racial, sexual, or political content onto our children” and noted that he would direct the “Department[s] of Justice and Education to open civil rights investigations into any school district that has engaged in race-based discrimination.”

He then likened  “Marxism being preached in our schools” to “an established religion” that is antithetical to the Judeo-Christian values that are deeply seeded in the fabric of western civilization.

“For this reason, my administration will aggressively pursue potential violations of the establishment clause and the free exercise clause of the constitution; that’s very simple,” Trump explained.

He continued:

Additionally, on day one, we will begin to find and remove the radical zealots and marxists who have infiltrated the federal Department of Education, and that also includes others, and you know who you are, because we are not going to allow anybody to hurt our children. Joe Biden has given these lunatics unchecked power. I will have them fired and escorted from the building, and I will tell Congress that any appropriations bill I sign must reaffirm the president’s ability to remove defiant employees form the job. It’s all about our children. 

I will veto the sinister effort to weaponize civics education. We will keep men out women’s sports and we will create a new credentialing body that will be the gold standard anywhere in the world to certify teachers who embrace patriotic values, support our way of life, and understand that their job is not to indoctrinate children, but very simply to educate them.

Lastly, school districts and states that “abolish teacher tenure from grades K-12,” “cut the bloated number of school administrators,” “Adopt a parental bill of rights,” and establish elections for school principals by parents at the local level will be rewarded with “massive funding preferences and favorable treatment.”

“When I’m president, we will put parents back in charge and give them the final say. We will get back to teaching reading, writing, and math called arithmetic, and we will give our kids the high-quality, pro-American education they deserve,” Trump concluded.

Washington Post Brands Gov. DeSantis ‘Full-Blown White Supremacist’

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Gov. Ron DeSantis (FL-R) is a “full-blown white supremacist” for banning from Florida’s schools an African American studies AP course allegedly containing radical content, according to a Washington Post piece accusing him of “harassing Black voters,” “playing to White grievance,” and “engaging in extreme gerrymandering to reduce the voting power of minorities.”

The Monday opinion essay by Post columnist Jennifer Rubin, titled “In blocking an AP Black studies course, DeSantis tells us who he is,” begins by accusing DeSantis of a series of offenses. She wrote:

Florida’s Republican governor and presidential aspirant Ron DeSantis has made a name for himself by harassing Black voters, setting up a system to sue teachers for teaching race in ways that might offend Whites, singling out LGBTQ youth (while gagging teachers) and engaging in extreme gerrymandering to reduce the voting power of minorities.

But Rubin insisted the Republican governor’s most recent move had gone even further.

“Now he’s gone full-blown white supremacist, banning the College Board’s Advanced Placement for African American studies course from Florida’s schools,” she wrote.

The Post columnist was referring to the Florida Department of Education (FDOE) recently rejecting the AP African American Studies course due to its content on “Black Queer Studies” as well as cultural appropriation and reparations and the “global influence” of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. 

With the DeSantis administration long having emphasized it will not allow schools to “twist history,” the department deemed the content “inexplicably contrary to Florida law” and significantly lacking “educational value.”

Calling it “among its most explicitly racist actions,” Rubin rejected any “basis” for the move deemed “incomprehensible” by White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.

Claiming the University of Florida, like all other well-regarded universities, has an “esteemed” African American Studies program, Rubin then details the history of admissions of minorities within institutions in the South, while accusing Florida of not explaining “how the AP course supposedly contravened state law.” She wrote:

If it is referencing last year’s Stop WOKE Act, which blocks the teaching of material that could make students feel guilt or responsibility for historical racism, then one has to wonder whether something as simple and straightforward as the state’s own history of segregated education can be studied.

Rubin also claimed the actions of the DeSantis administration “put to lie the notion that the attack on ‘critical race theory’ is aimed at ‘socialist ideas’ or educationally suspect pedagogy.”

“This is about rewriting history to wipe out a critical part of our American experience, to deny the wrongs done to millions of Americans and to exempt institutions from the obligation to take a hard look at remedying past injustice,” she alleged.

Calling the “denial of Blacks’ own suffering” a “key aspect of white supremacy” historically, Rubin deemed it the “ultimate expression of contempt for certain Americans as unworthy and peripheral to the story of ‘real’ — read ‘White’ — America.”

“The goal here is unmistakable: eradication of African American historical experience,” she added.

After accusing DeSantis of “playing to White grievance,” she then suggested African American studies be included in “every K-12 curriculum for every student.”

The piece comes as Democrats continue to target DeSantis, a potential 2024 candidate for the Republican party.

Last year, Florida Agriculture Commissioner and Democrat candidate for governor Nikki Fried compared DeSantis to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.

Rubin has long attacked Republicans.

In June, she charged that the GOP “systematically undermines democracy,” as she called on media outlets to stop treating Republicans as “normal politicians” and recognize the Republican Party for the threat it poses to American democracy.

Previously, she accused the GOP of being obsessed with “toxic” and “grotesque” masculinity, as she likened Republicans to “little boys playing at war” ignoring “real-world consequences.”

Follow Joshua Klein on Twitter @JoshuaKlein.