The GOP education platform might feel familiar. Project 2025 takes its ideas to the next level

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Cut federal funding for schools “pushing critical race theory, radical gender ideology, and other inappropriate racial, sexual or political content on our children.”

That’s among the top 20 promises in the Republican Party’s 2024 platform, alongside pledges to seal the border, conduct the largest deportation operation in American history, make college campuses “patriotic and safe again,” and “keep men out of women’s sports.”

Formally adopted Monday by delegates at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, the platform says that Republicans will “stop woke government” and calls for rolling back protections for gay and transgender students. It also calls for expanding parental rights and school choice, promoting career training and “patriotic” civics education, and beefing up student discipline, positions that Republicans hope will resonate beyond their base on Election Day.

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