Posted inOpinion OPINION: If Trump wins, count on continued culture wars, school vouchers and a fixation on ending the federal Department of Education
Josh Cowen
October 8, 2024
Expect a new era of isolation, separatism and a “politics of humiliation” in education
As a political scientist with a background in policy analysis, I used to approach questions about policy plans in terms of which had data behind them and which didn’t — along with what such evidence might mean for decision-makers.
However, no question about what a new Donald Trump administration would mean for U.S. education can be answered strictly with a debate about facts and figures.
With the former president and his allies still denying that he lost the 2020 election, with Trump and his running mate embracing unfounded stories about Haitian immigrants eating household pets and with Trump’s obsession with the size of his cheering crowds, any analytical projection about his future agenda is all but impossible. With such an absence of facts or evidence-based policy designs, we must turn to past actions, current rhetoric and the priorities of Trump’s political alliances for a hint of what could come.
