The Republican Party has a long wish list of things it hopes to change about American schools. High on it is abolishing the U.S. Education Department and establishing a national “Parents’ Bill of Rights” to give conservatives more control over what their children learn.
But members of the GOP are not all on the same page about how a Republican president should go about reforming the country’s education system.
One much-touted approach to revamping schools occupies a chapter of Project 2025, the 900-page political blueprint authored by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. Despite the group’s deep ties to his administration, former President Donald Trump, the party’s nominee and standard-bearer, has tried to distance himself from the agenda, adopting his own, simpler version of a party platform blessed by delegates at the Republican National Convention last week.
