Heritage Foundation's
Project 2025

Chapter 11 - Department of Education

• Eliminate the Department of Education
• Redistribute education programs across other federal agencies
• Eliminate ineffective or duplicative education programs
• Convert remaining federal education funding to flexible block grants
• Advance education freedom and school choice
• Provide education choice for "federal" children (military, D.C., tribal)
• Restore state and local control over education funding
• Reform federal student aid programs
• End abuses in loan forgiveness programs
• Safeguard civil rights based on a "proper understanding" of those laws
• Stop executive overreach in education policy
• Move IDEA oversight to the Department of Health and Human Services
• Transfer Title I funding to HHS and eventually phase out federal involvement
• Eliminate Impact Aid not tied to students
• Move student-driven Impact Aid to Department of Defense or Bureau of Indian Education
• Transfer Indian education programs to Bureau of Indian Education
• Expand D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program
• Move career and technical education programs to Department of Labor
• Convert IDEA funding into a no-strings formula block grant
• Phase out earmarks for special institutions
• Move Office for Civil Rights to Department of Justice
• Move National Center for Education Statistics to Census Bureau
• Spin off Federal Student Aid into an independent government corporation
• Rescind Biden administration regulations on various education issues
• Redefine "sex" under Title IX to mean only biological sex at birth
• Prohibit schools from addressing students by different names/pronouns without parental consent
• Advance legal protections for parental rights in education
• Provide education savings accounts for students in D.C., military families, and on tribal lands
• Reform federal student loan programs, potentially privatizing them
• Eliminate PLUS loans (both Grad and Parent)
• End Public Service Loan Forgiveness program
• Cap indirect costs at universities for research
• Enforce foreign gift reporting requirements for universities
• Reform competency-based education regulations
• Wind down "area studies" programs at universities
• Reinstate Trump-era executive orders on agency guidance documents
• Remove the "list of shame" of religious colleges seeking Title IX exemptions
• Expand the list of allowable accreditors for D.C. voucher program
• Require transparency around program performance and DEI influence
• Pursue antitrust action against college accreditors
• Eliminate GEAR UP program
• Cut federal K-12 education spending by 10%