A LETTER TO CONGRESS
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For U.S. Representatives
- The Honorable [Full Name]
- U.S. House of Representatives[Building Name and Room Number]
- Washington, DC 20515
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- The Honorable [Full Name]
- United States Senate[Building Name and Room Number]
- Washington, DC 20510
SAMPLE LETTER
Dear Sir or Madam,
I am deeply concerned about the Trump administration’s approach to education and the damage it is doing to students, educators, research institutions, and academic integrity. Education should be guided by evidence, expertise, and intellectual honesty. Instead, I see a pattern of political interference, censorship, funding cuts, and policies that undermine educational opportunity.
Schools and universities are being pressured to eliminate or restrict instruction on race, gender, and other subjects that some political groups oppose. Historical facts are being removed or reframed to fit political narratives, while book bans and curriculum restrictions continue to limit students’ access to information. This amounts to whitewashing history, narrowing academic inquiry, and allowing extremist viewpoints to exert greater influence over what students are taught.
Higher education faces similar attacks. Republican politicians increasingly treat universities as political targets, and funding for important research is being cut or threatened as a tool of leverage and retaliation. Academic institutions should not be punished for political reasons.
Leadership at the Department of Education inspires little confidence. Linda McMahon lacks educational credentials, yet oversees policies affecting millions of students and teachers. Under her leadership, programs such as TRIO - which help low-income, first-generation, and disadvantaged students access higher education - has been gutted. At the same time, the administration continues to interfere with student loan programs, making affordable higher education more difficult to obtain.
The administration has also supported the use of artificial intelligence in education while showing little interest in meaningful oversight. AI systems are known to generate false information and, in some cases, harmful content, including material related to self-harm and suicide. Encouraging widespread classroom use without safeguards is irresponsible.
Teachers are already facing burnout, staffing shortages, and growing workloads. Rather than addressing these problems, the administration’s policies make them worse. Efforts to declassify critical professions such as nursing as non-professional further undermine educational and workforce standards.
Finally, these policies overwhelmingly benefit wealthy families while shifting costs onto everyone else. Public funds are increasingly directed toward private-school initiatives, forcing taxpayers to subsidize opportunities that primarily benefit those who already have greater financial resources.
Taken together, these actions represent an effort to politicize education, restrict what students can learn, weaken public institutions, and reduce educational opportunities for ordinary Americans. The examples below outline these concerns. Some are included for historical context, but all illustrate the broader pattern that has led to my alarm and frustration.
Chronology.
1966-01-01 Jerry Falwell founded the whites-only Lynchburg Christian Academy to circumvent the 1954 ruling to ban segregation. He wrote in his book ‘America Can Be Saved’, “I hope I live to see the day when, as in the early days of our country, we won’t have any public schools. The churches will have taken them over again and Christians will be running them”. In 1977 courts ruled that segregated private religious schools could not qualify as charitable organizations or retain tax exempt status.
1967-01-01 Interesting FYI: Project Rebound was founded, offering hope and higher education opportunities for formerly incarcerated individuals. Project Rebound Metrics from 2016 to 2016 had an astounding recidivism rate of 0%, meaning all students enrolled in their program did not re-offend, which also by that metric means the project has a 100% success rate. It assisted with books, school supplies, and help with childcare during school.
2007-01-01 Stephen Miller accused universities of censorship because they refused to run an ad that claimed “Muslims have problems living peacefully with their neighbors”.
2009-01-01 Linda McMahon holds limited credentials in education. She only served one year on the Connecticut Board of Education and holds a degree in French.
2011-01-01 From 2011 to 2019, Fox News repeatedly mocked “shrimp on a treadmill” research, inflating costs and ignoring its food-safety purpose.
2016-02-24 During a speech in Las Vegas, Trump told the crowd, “I love the poorly educated”.
2016-11-21 Turning Point’s Charlie Kirk created the “Professor Watchlist” so his followers could outwardly dox any teacher they felt was “woke”.
2018-03-08 A Floridian middle-school social studies teacher was pulled after the school learned she had a white supremacist podcast.
2019-11-08 Rebecca Friedrichs asserted that teachers’ unions promoted socialism. She claimed during a Tucker Carlson interview that pushing for free lunch programs, healthcare, and emotional support is an attempt to replace the family with indoctrination and communism.
2021-06-01 Texas House Bill 3979 restricts race, slavery and current event curriculum in public schools by removing material pertaining to Native American history, Cesar Chavez, Susan B. Anthony, Frederick Douglas and Martin Luther King Jr.
2021-07-21 Fox News contributor Leo Terrell attacked Critical Race Theory. Trump later appointed him to be Senior Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division.
2021-09-17 During an interview on Jack Murphy Live, JD Vance claimed that COVID masking traumatized children, chastised teachers for teaching about slavery, attacked CRT, claimed “wokeism” assimilation, and praised Curtis Yarvin.
2021-10-03 JD Vance suggested using funds as leverage to strongarm universities, “…hundreds of billions of dollars that we send to them (meaning universities) as leverage, and say ‘unless you stop indoctrinating our children, unless you stop indoctrinating our entire society, you don’t get another dime of our money”.
2021-11-02 During a National Conservatism conference, JD Vance told the crowd, “we are giving our children over to our enemies” in the education system. He also referred to taking the “red pill” like in the Matrix movie, complained about subsidizing universities to “control” how we think, called Richard Nixon a great prophet, and proclaimed National Conservatism as a movement.
2022-01-01 PragerU announced they would “go toe-to-toe” with PBS Kids and Disney to promote conservative-only content.
2023-03-29 Governor Ron DeSantis and his allies initiated a “hostile takeover” of New College of Florida as part of a political campaign.
2023-05-24 Several States passed legislation forcing Americans to divert their tax money from public schools towards private schools for the elite.
2023-06-06 The nation faced a teacher shortage and severe burnout.
2023-10-16 The Daily Wire launched Bentkey, a children’s streaming service offering explicitly conservative indoctrination to children.
2023-10-23 Republicans increasingly ban books.
2024-03-26 Trump rebranded the Lee Greenwood Bible as his own, produced them China for $3, sold them for a 2000% and up profit, and forced a mandate requiring public schools to carry only those versions of the bible.
2024-04-05 Governor Greg Abbott threatened Texas college students with expulsion for protesting the genocide in Gaza.
2024-04-24 Mike Johnson called pro-Palestinian protestors “antisemitic”, threatened retaliatory measures to cut funding, and demanded the Columbia University president resign.
2024-06-03 Billions of taxpayers’ dollars are diverted from public schools to fund exclusive private religious schools.
2025-01-01 Key space programs at risk now include active missions New Horizons, Juno, Mars Odyssey and Maven, observatories Chandra Xray, future developments for Davinci and Veritas, and new space telescopes like the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope and the Habitable Worlds Observatory.
2025-01-20 Page 482 of Project 2025 aims to eliminate Head Start.
2025-01-20 Trump rescinded Executive Order 14000 Supporting the Reopening and Continuing Operation of Schools and Early Childhood Education Providers.
2025-01-20 Trump rescinded Executive Order 14007 President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
2025-01-20 Trump rescinded Executive Order 14084 Promoting the Arts, the Humanities, and Museum and Library Services.
2025-01-20 Trump rescinded Executive Order 14143 Providing for the Appointment of Alumni of AmeriCorps to the Competitive Service.
2025-01-26 The United States Air Force was forced to remove training courses referencing the Tuskegee Airmen or the Women Air Force Service Pilots (WACS) because they are “DEI”.
2025-01-29 Trump issued Executive Order Ending Racial Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling.
2025-02-03 Elon Musk revived criticism of “shrimp treadmill” research, calling it an “insane” waste of taxpayer money”.
2025-02-13 After a series of pro-Palestinian demonstrations, The Committee on Education and Workforce targeted Columbia University, demanding case files and proposed and enacted sanctions in response to a list of alleged antisemitic incidents from April 2024 through January 2025.
2025-02-19 Republican lawmakers in both Indiana and Washington removed state funding for Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, a program which provided free books to schoolchildren.
2025-03-07 The Trump administration purged 26,000 military photos of anything referencing women or minorities including photos of the Enola Gay.
2025-03-07 Trump revised student loan forgiveness to exclude anyone they (the Trump administration) deem “anti-American” or “activists”.
2025-03-07 The Trump administration cancelled $400M in grants to Columbia University.
2025-03-15 The Trump administration stripped away women’s history pages from the Arlington website.
2025-03-20 The Trump administration issued Executive Orders to dissolve the Department of Education at the Federal level and hand it over to the States.
2025-03-20 Trump appointed Charlie Kirk to the Air Force Academy Board.
2025-03-20 Trump suspended $175M in funding to the University of Pennsylvania for allowing a transgender athlete on the women’s swim team. In July, Trump released $175M in funding back to University of Pennsylvania only after they agreed to remove transgender Lia Thomas’ records and issue an apology.
2025-03-21 Columbia University agreed to administration demands in exchange for restoring funding, but funding was later frozen again. Three months later Andrew Nixon stated, “There is no federal funding for unvetted woke research at Columbia. Any minimal disbursements that presently exist are for specific measures, including to wind down the grant entirely”.
2025-03-27 Trump signed EO Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History which is designed to whitewash and sanitize history.
2025-04-08 The Trump administration froze $1B in funding to Cornell University and $790M to Northwestern, accusing both schools of antisemitism and discrimination. According to online sources, the funding freeze impacted contracts for the Department of Agriculture, defense, education, Health & Human Services, and cybersecurity.
2025-04-09 Princeton lost federal funding for climate research because the Trump administration accused them of promoting “exaggerated and implausible climate threats.”
2025-04-11 The Trump administration demanded that Harvard conduct a federal government-approved audit of its student and faculty to determine “viewpoint diversity”. When Harvard refused, the DEO launched an investigation and accused them of discrimination against white males.
2025-04-14 Trump created a “Task Force to Combat Antisemitism” as part of his pressure campaign on universities and protests. The task force is backed by Stephen Miller and Leo Terrell.
2025-04-23 Trump signed an executive order encouraging greater AI use in schools.
2025-04-25 AmeriCorps lost $400 million in funding, affecting 32,000 participants and programs related to disaster recovery, education, environmental stewardship, and public health. Trump rescinded Executive Order 14143 Providing for the Appointment of Alumni of AmeriCorps to the Competitive Service.
2025-04-29 After Harvard refused to let the federal government do their unconstitutional audit of “viewpoint diversity”, The Department of Education launched an investigation into the Harvard Law Review and accused them of discrimination against white males.
2025-04-29 Religious charter schools in Oklahoma requested taxpayer money grants to fund their schools, draining funds that should go to public education.
2025-05-02 The Trump administration cut funding to after-school care programs, leaving increased strain on working families, gaps in learning and support since it also affects summer school programs, and disrupted partnerships between cities and nonprofits.
2025-05-21 Senate Bill SB10 was introduced to require display of the Ten Commandments in classrooms. Representative James Talarico argued against the measure, “forcing religion down throats is not love”.
2025-05-22 Kristi Noem ordered the Department of Homeland Security to terminate Harvard University’s student-and-exchange visitor program SEVP certification.
2025-05-23 During a Bloomberg radio interview, Yale School of Management Executive Fellow Gautam Mukunda stated, “If they can break Harvard, then they are sending a sign that they can do it to anybody”.
2025-05-27 Trump froze $3.2B in grants and contracts to Harvard.
2025-05-28 Marco Rubio stated he would “aggressively” revoke visas for Chinese students.
2025-05-28 In a White House press conference Trump stated that Harvard “has to behave themselves” and demanded a list of foreign students from the school, stating Harvard should cap foreign attendees to 15%.
2025-06-01 Pete Hegseth renamed several U.S. Naval Ships that were named after prominent women or civil rights leaders because they did not meet his criteria for a “warrior ethos”
2025-06-01 During an interview with Face the Nation, Wesleyan president Michael Roth said, “…this is really an act of intimidation to scare schools into towing the line of the current administration. It really has nothing to do with national security or with antisemitism. This heightened scrutiny is meant to instill fear on college campuses, and I am afraid it is working”.
2025-06-10 An MIT essay study suggested students using ChatGPT experienced “cognitive debt.”
2025-06-10 National parks were instructed to post QR codes so visitors could report exhibits with content about slavery, Native American history, pollution or climate change.
2025-06-18 The Trump administration froze Columbia University funds again.
2025-07-01 Trump released $175M in funding back to University of Pennsylvania only after they agreed to remove transgender Lia Thomas’ records and issue an apology
2025-07-13 Columbia University agreed to government oversight of their Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African studies at the demands of the Trump administration.
2025-07-15 Students from low-income backgrounds will have fewer options to finance their education while losing access to essential social safety net programs and fewer repayment plan options with steeper monthly payments, all thanks to the Trump administration and their policies.
2025-07-23 Columbia University agreed to pay Trump $200M in fines to settle a fight and restore research funding. Trump later posted on Truth Social “Columbia has also committed to ending their ridiculous DEI policies, admitting students based ONLY on MERIT, and protecting the Civil Liberties of their students on campus”.
2025-07-31 The Trump administration cut UCLA research grants, impacting things like Parkinson’s disease treatment. A judge ordered the restoration of some of these grants because the government failed to provide sufficient justification for terminating them.
2025-07-31 The Trump administration cut funding to Brown University and forced them to pay a $50M settlement to the Rhode Island workforce development in a deal with Trump. They were also forced to adopt the government definition of male and female and remove any consideration of race from the admissions process.
2025-08-08 PragerU announced plans to totally replace PBS with conservative programming for children. Some example material includes:
- Who’s behind the anti-ICE riots
- How Foreign aid keeps Africa poor
- Laughter on Lockdown featuring Roseanne Barr
- Their Lives Mattered - a spin off the Black Lives Matter movement
- MIA: Masculinity in America
- Why do you hate conservatives
- And an artificially generated AI version of John Adams who tells children, “Facts do not care about your feelings”.
- The quote “Facts do not care about your feelings” comes from right-wing influencer and propagandist Ben Shapiro. Ben Shapiro, who accuses public schools of being “almost designed to be anti-Catholic indoctrination centers”.
2025-08-18 Teachers in California, Oklahoma, and New York are now required to pass a PragerU-developed “America First” assessment which promotes partisan ideology and includes questions that push 2020 false electoral claims.
2025-08-19 Trump posted, “Smithsonian is OUT OF CONTROL, where everything discussed is how horrible our Country is, how bad Slavery was”. Then he instructed his attorneys to “go through the Museums, and start the exact same process that has been done with Colleges and Universities”.
2025-08-25 Americans United wrote, “PragerU is no longer a fringe media company. It’s institutionalized and government sanctioned. Right now, PragerU is offered in eight states, including Florida, Louisiana and Texas - all states whose legislatures have been eager to impose religion on public schools.”
2025-09-03 A judge ruled that the Trump administration illegally cancelled Harvard funding.
2025-09-03 PragerU installed an AI-generated John Adams exhibit for children featuring the phrase “Facts do not care about your feelings.”
2025-09-04 Amid funding freezes and firings, Northwestern University president Michael Schill announced his resignation.
2025-09-08 Trump paused funding for special-education programs and teacher-training initiatives, giving affected organizations one week to appeal. The U.S. Department of Education said, quote, that this department is “inconsistent with, and no longer effectuates, the best interests of the federal government”.
2025-09-10 The DOE defunded Strengthening Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian-Serving Institutions, Strengthening Predominantly Black Institutions, Strengthening Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions, Strengthening Native American Serving Nontribal Institutions, Minority Science and Engineering Improvement, Developing Hispanic Service Institutions, and Promoting Postbaccalaureate Opportunities for Hispanic Americans.
2025-09-14 During a prayer vigil for Kirk, Kari Lake claimed the suspect was “brainwashed” by woke and then warned not to send their children to universities, which she labeled “indoctrination camps”. Kari Lake also stirred controversy in 2022 when she demanded ballots be counted by hand.
2025-09-14 Laura Loomer posted on social media “It’s time to defund American universities. You don’t need to go to college. Charlie Kirk didn’t go to college. @HarmeetKDhillon”.
2025-09-16 The Department of Education ended funding for nine student-focused projects, including arts education, American history programs, free-book initiatives, civics education, literacy efforts, and college-preparation programs.
2025-09-17 The Trump administration ordered the National Park Service to remove or censor exhibits at Harpers Ferry West Virginia, including the Civil War Museum and John Brown’s Fort (a key site in an 1859 abolitionist raid).
2025-09-28 Trump reposted TPUSA propaganda calling for action to incorporate Turning Point USA content into school curricula.
2025-11-20 The Department of Education declassified nursing careers as professional, thereby restricting their student loan limits.
2025-12-03 A Colorado Springs teacher was indefinitely suspended after she disclosed upcoming revisions to limit teaching about anti-slavery activism or contributions of Frederick Douglass.
2026-01-01 Trump’s IRS is going to consider student loans as income and start taxing them.
2026-01-06 Texas A&M directed teachers to ban Plato, citing “gender ideology”.
2026-01-08 The Smithsonian was told to remove the word “unjust” from a display about Japanese internment camps because it made the display look “too partisan”.
2026-01-23 The Trump administration ordered the National Park Service to remove a slavery exhibit from a park in Philadelphia.
2026-01-24 The Texas Education Freedom Accounts allegedly excluded Muslim private schools from the State voucher program.
2026-02-02 Texas A&M cut Women’s Studies due to policy on race and gender topics.
2026-02-02 Trump threatened to sue Harvard University for $1 billion.
2026-02-05 The Trump Administration sanitized exhibits at Little Bighorn National Monument. The Northern Cheyenne Tribal Council unanimously voted 11-0 against the changes.
2026-02-10 Nebraska became one of the first states to incorporate extreme-right Turning Point USA indoctrination clubs into schools. The governor stated, “I see it as right and wrong, God and Satan”.
2026-02-17 A judge ordered the Trump administration to reinstate a slavery exhibit at the Presidential House in Philadelphia, citing George Orwell’s 1984, comparing the Trump administration to the book’s totalitarian regime which revised historical records to align with its own narratives.
2026-02-27 Pete Hegseth said the US Armed Forces will only support Scouting America if it complies with EO 14173 to end DEI and ban trans kids. He wrote, “Boy scouts should go back to being the Boy Scouts as originally founded, a group that develops boys into men”.
2026-03-01 Pete Hegseth ordered a ban on US troops attending graduate-level programs at Ivy League and other top-tier universities, labelling them “woke breeding grounds of toxic indoctrination”.
2026-03-11 The Arkansas Governor and TPUSA announced TPUSA indoctrination in their schools.
2026-03-12 During a rally in Arkansas to integrate “Club America” in schools, Erika Kirk pushed white victimhood and white nationalist views onto students, “…just like you and other governors who have been bold enough to stand alongside us to make sure that Charlie’s dream of having a club America on every single high school campus….someone throws all of your resources on the ground, count it all joy. You are being persecuted because you believe in Jesus Christ. Count it all joy….Don’t let anyone disenfranchise you because you’re a young man, especially a young white male man. Don’t ever let anyone talk down to you. We need strong men out there. ….God has created you for a purpose and a reason far greater than you and I will ever know on this side of heaven. But just know that as long as you’re a part of Turning Point USA, you have us by your side, and we will be there for you every step of the way. And just like this governor and many others that are out there, we got your back, always”.
2026-03-16 Federal Judge Timothy Brooks ruled that Arkansas’s Ten Commandments classroom law violated the Constitution’s Establishment and Free Exercise Clauses and wrote, “Act 573’s purpose is only to display a sacred religious text in a prominent place in every public-school classroom, and the only reason to display a sacred religious text in every classroom is to proselytize to children”.
2026-03-26 Melania Trump presented humanoid “educator” robots as teacher replacements.
2026-04-28 After the DOE declassified nursing careers as “professional”, Senator Merkley pressed Linda McMahon on why she gutted TRIO, a program designed to encourage nursing careers. McMahon said declassifying nursing jobs would make tuition more affordable. What really has happened is students who can’t get a sufficient federal loan with low interest now will have to seek out a privatized loan with higher interest rates.
2026-04-28 Trump fired all 22 members of the National Science Board.
2026-05-22 Teachers revolted against I-Ready; a private-equity-backed software used in education.
2026-05-26 NASA announced plans to build a moon base.
2026-06-16 Trump administration moved two high-profile functions out of the Department of Education: Civil Rights Education will now be under the Department of Justice, and Special Education will now be under the Department of Health and Human Services.
2026-06-22 The Texas Board of Education voted to force biblical curriculum in schools.
2026-07-01 During a bible school session for Mount Olivet Baptist Church in Lexington Kentucky students watched as the pastors put on an “Antifa execution” skit in front of little kids and mocked an execution.
2026-07-12 West Virginia spent $3M to establish an “anti-woke” university program.
2026-07-18 Sex-bot company RealDoll pivoted to Realbotix and wants to market selling adult companion teachers for classrooms. The company is testing the idea out on a Seneca Nation New York township with a median income of $30K.
2026-07-21 The GOP pressed the Smithsonian history director over what they called “woke ideology” in displays.
2026-07-24 Trump ordered installation of signs outside the Smithsonian warning visitors that exhibits may be inaccurate. The Executive Order reads in part, “Because the museum has failed to appropriately honor the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence during this 250th anniversary year of the founding of our country, the secretary of the interior…shall install temporary exhibits or signage of NPS-maintained sidewalks, walkways, and land used by the public that corrects inaccurate information presented in the museum”.