{"id":6349,"date":"2025-10-20T19:26:35","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T00:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westplexnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/20\/us-house-democrats-question-trump-administration-focus-on-patriotic-education-2\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T19:26:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T00:26:35","slug":"us-house-democrats-question-trump-administration-focus-on-patriotic-education-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westplexnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/20\/us-house-democrats-question-trump-administration-focus-on-patriotic-education-2\/","title":{"rendered":"US House Democrats question Trump administration focus on \u2018patriotic education\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">WASHINGTON \u2014 A group of Democrats on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/democrats-edworkforce.house.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/scott_et_al_comment_letter_to_ed_re_patriotic_education_proposed_rule.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. House education panel<\/a> urged the Education Department to withdraw its\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.federalregister.gov\/documents\/2025\/09\/17\/2025-17960\/proposed-priority-and-definitions-secretarys-supplemental-priority-and-definitions-on-promoting\" target=\"_blank\">proposed supplemental priority<\/a> on \u201cpromoting patriotic education\u201d in a letter obtained Monday by States Newsroom.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">House Committee on Education and Workforce ranking member Bobby Scott led a handful of his colleagues in writing to Education Secretary Linda McMahon opposing the proposed priority for discretionary grant funding.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Democrats wrote that while civics education \u201cis a vital component of a well-functioning democracy,\u201d the proposal\u2019s details \u201craise serious concerns.\u201d The letter was sent Oct. 17 \u2014 the last day to submit a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.federalregister.gov\/documents\/2025\/09\/17\/2025-17960\/proposed-priority-and-definitions-secretarys-supplemental-priority-and-definitions-on-promoting\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0comment<\/a> on the proposed priority. It has not been previously reported.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Joining Scott, of Virginia, were Reps. Frederica Wilson of Florida, Suzanne Bonamici of Oregon, Mark Takano and Mark DeSaulnier of California, Lucy McBath of Georgia, Summer Lee of Pennsylvania and Yassamin Ansari of Arizona.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4>Dems reject Trump hand in curriculum<\/h4>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Democrats said the agency\u2019s proposal would insert President Donald Trump\u2019s administration\u2019s \u201cpreferences of a particular understanding of American history in curriculum, professional development, and educational programs.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Civics is a branch of social studies that focuses on rights and obligations of citizenship. Though it\u2019s long enjoyed bipartisan support, the subject has found itself engulfed in the education culture wars regarding how and what is taught as America reckons with its complicated history.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The department announced last month it would be prioritizing \u201cpatriotic education\u201d when it comes to discretionary grants.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The department\u2019s proposed definition of \u201cpatriotic education\u201d calls for a presentation of America\u2019s history that is grounded in an \u201caccurate, honest, unifying, inspiring, and ennobling characterization of the American founding and foundational principles\u201d and \u201cthe concept that commitment to America\u2019s aspirations is beneficial and justified.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">But the Democrats found this definition to be \u201cconcerning,\u201d saying this framing \u201ccreates the potential for schools that teach accurate and complex histories of slavery, Indigenous displacement, the Women\u2019s Suffrage Movement, and the Civil Rights Movement to be limited in their ability to access certain discretionary grants.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4>Coalition to promote patriotism<\/h4>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The department\u2019s September announcement came the same day it\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsfromthestates.com\/article\/trump-undertakes-maga-centric-makeover-us-civics-education\" target=\"_blank\">unveiled a civics education coalition<\/a> that includes a slew of prominent conservative advocacy organizations, such as the Heritage Foundation and Turning Point USA.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Left out of that initiative are some of the more traditional civics and education groups. Instead, many of the coalition\u2019s groups have promoted Trump\u2019s political agenda and promote a vision of U.S. identity that downplays historical wrongs associated with race and gender and projects the country as an exceptional force for good.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cSome of these groups have expressed contempt for the teaching of history that does not align with the version of history they believe students should learn, and these same groups would prefer to limit children\u2019s access to materials that depict the realities of slavery in America or the Civil Rights Movement,\u201d the Democrats wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The department did not immediately respond to a request for comment Monday.\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 A group of Democrats on the\u00a0U.S. House education panel urged the Education Department to withdraw its\u00a0proposed supplemental priority on \u201cpromoting patriotic education\u201d in a letter obtained Monday by States Newsroom.\u00a0 House Committee on Education and Workforce ranking member Bobby Scott led a handful of his colleagues in writing to Education Secretary Linda McMahon&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - 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