Hialy Gutierrez

1 week ago | religiondispatches.org | Hialy Gutierrez

A federal school voucher program, or “universal school choice” as supporters call it, is a key piece of the Right’s agenda to dramatically change education as we’ve known it. A central element in the Project 2025 agenda, the effort began a little over a week after President Donald Trump took office and signed an executive order aimed at expanding the use of public funds for private education.

May 28, 2024 | religiondispatches.org | Hialy Gutierrez

Religion Dispatches recently sat down with Isaac Kamola, associate professor of political science at Trinity College, Hartford, and the director of the Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom at the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) to discuss how the backlash to CRT and DEI in higher education emerged as a coordinated far-right response to the racial justice uprisings of 2020.