[ [link removed] ]Show your solidarity with teachers in the face of Republican attacks on
public education! Download and print this free thank-you card!

Dear MoveOn member,

This week, the Utah Education Association, the state's largest teachers
union, sued the state in hopes of shutting down a Republican-led voucher
program that could reroute more than $82 million of taxpayer money away
from public schools and Utah's students. The union president called it a
"deliberate undermining of public schools." Before 2021, Utah ranked last
in the country for its per-student spending. Now, it's second to last.^2 

For decades, Republicans across the country have worked to decimate public
education and villainize public school teachers. Now, their most extreme
plan for public education is laid out in Project 2025, the MAGA agenda for
a second Trump presidency.

The Project 2025 manifesto has an entire section focused on reshaping—or,
more accurately, dismantling—our public education system and has a plan to
drain all of our resources to reroute them to private education, like what
is happening in Utah. The plan includes eliminating the Department of
Education, getting rid of teachers unions, ending federal funding, and
gutting any programs that support equity and inclusion, even free school
lunch programs and Head Start.^3

For many communities across the country, teachers are wrapping up after
another year of serving and educating our communities. [ [link removed] ]Will you
download and print out a few of these cards to thank the teachers in your
life for all they do for your kids or your community? Taking a moment to
write a note to thank them for all they do is an act of solidarity during
a challenging time for public educators.

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It's no surprise that Moms for Liberty, a far-right "parental group" best
known for their support of book bans and opposing LGBTQ+ inclusion in
schools, sits on the Project 2025 advisory board and were influential in
drafting the educational policies within the Project 2025 proposal.^4
While under the guise of protecting kids and family values, they aim to
strip us of our freedoms, deny the truth of our history, and push their
ultra-conservative agenda into every aspect of our lives. 

Authored by the far-right Heritage Foundation, backed by more than 100
conservative organizations, and funded by dark money, Project 2025 is a
920-page detailed presidential transition plan to consolidate power and
force the MAGA agenda into every aspect of our lives. In addition to
undermining public education, the agenda aims to eliminate Social Security
and Medicare, roll back climate initiatives, revoke protections for LGBTQ+
people, and ban abortion.^5 

This is the agenda Trump and Republican leaders will pursue if they seize
power in this election. No wonder the stakes are so high. As we fight to
defeat this MAGA threat in November, we also need to make sure American
voters know about Project 2025 and all the unpopular, damaging policies it
includes. And we need to do what we can to show solidarity with those who
would be targeted the most—such as public school teachers who, day in and
day out, make an important difference in the lives of our kids.

[ [link removed] ]Together we can defend public education and the teachers who give so
much to our kids and community. Start by downloading and printing a few
cards to thank them for another year of teaching!

Thanks for all you do.

–Kelsey, Amy, Sana, Alyssa, and the rest of the team

Sources:

1. "Utah teachers union sues over state's $82 million school voucher
program," The Salt Lake Tribune, May 29, 2024
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2. "Utah has no plans to change lowest-in-nation education spending,
officials say," The Salt Lake Tribune, January 28, 2024
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3. "A guide to Project 2025, the extreme right-wing agenda for the next
Republican administration," Media Matters, March 20, 2024
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4. "Project 2025 Tapped Known Hate, Extremist Groups For Advisory Board,"
Accountable.US, May 20, 2024
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5. "A guide to Project 2025, the extreme right-wing agenda for the next
Republican administration," Media Matters, March 20, 2024
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