Educators from Orlando warn Floridians of Trump’s Project 2025 agenda to eliminate the Department of Education
In Orlando, Team Harris-Walz, members of Florida’s largest education union, and elected officials joined Florida educators and volunteers for a press conference to mark World Teachers’ Day. Local educators gathered to highlight Vice President Harris and Governor Walz’s fight to strengthen public education and training as a pathway to the middle class and slam Donald Trump’s Project 2025 agenda that would gut federal funding for K-12 education.
Teachers and unions across the nation are worried about how Project 2025 will impact the nation’s most vulnerable workers. Ron Pollard, Orange Education Support Professionals Association President said, “Project 2025 would eliminate the Department of Education, slash funding for our K-12 schools, cut more than $20 billion in federal support for the nation’s most vulnerable students, and end the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program — all while giving massive handouts to billionaires and big corporations.”
Project 2025 is a stark contrast from Vice President Harris and Governor Walz’s vision for a new way forward that ensures parents can afford high-quality child care and preschool for their children, takes on the unreasonable burden of student loan debt, and fights to make higher education more affordable, so that college can be a ticket to the middle class.
Dr. and Professor Robert Cassanello, represented professors and graduates assistants around the state. Cassanello said, “Vice President Harris has spent her career fighting to make higher education more affordable. As Attorney General, she helped shut down a predatory chain of for-profit colleges that preyed on low-income students, winning a $1.1 billion settlement and providing direct relief for students.”
