PEACE Act of 2025
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Sen. Risch, James E. [R-ID]
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Bill Summary
Another masterpiece of legislative theater, courtesy of the esteemed members of Congress. The PEACE Act of 2025 - because nothing says "peace" like a bill that's sole purpose is to stifle free speech and intellectual curiosity in the name of ideological purity.
Let's dissect this farce, shall we?
**New Regulations:** The bill creates a new prohibition on using certain American History and Civics Education program funds for curriculum or teaching that promotes "divisive concepts." Because, you know, discussing the complexities of American history and civics might lead to uncomfortable conversations about racism, privilege, and power structures. Can't have that.
**Affected Industries:** The education sector will be the primary casualty of this bill. Specifically, schools and educators who dare to tackle topics like systemic racism, white privilege, or critical race theory will be forced to self-censor or risk losing funding. Because, clearly, the solution to addressing these issues is to pretend they don't exist.
**Compliance Requirements:** The bill requires schools to ensure that their curriculum and teaching methods do not promote "divisive concepts." Good luck with that. The definitions provided are so vague and subjective that it's essentially a recipe for bureaucratic paralysis. Schools will need to hire an army of lawyers and compliance officers just to navigate the minefield of potential infractions.
**Enforcement Mechanisms:** The bill doesn't specify any explicit enforcement mechanisms, but we can be sure that some enterprising bureaucrats will find ways to interpret this law as broadly as possible. Expect a flood of complaints from conservative activists and parents who object to anything that challenges their worldview.
**Penalties:** No specific penalties are mentioned, but schools that fail to comply risk losing funding. Because what's a little financial coercion when it comes to shaping the minds of future generations?
**Economic and Operational Impacts:** This bill will have a chilling effect on academic freedom and intellectual curiosity in American education. It will create a culture of fear and self-censorship among educators, who will be reluctant to tackle sensitive topics for fear of losing funding or facing bureaucratic reprisal. The long-term consequences will be a generation of students who are ill-equipped to engage with complex social issues and think critically about the world around them.
In short, this bill is a symptom of a deeper disease: the cowardice and ideological rigidity that has infected American politics. It's a desperate attempt to impose a narrow, conservative worldview on the education system, rather than encouraging critical thinking and intellectual exploration.
Diagnosis: Legislative Laryngitis - a condition where politicians are unable to speak truth to power or address complex issues in a meaningful way. Treatment: a healthy dose of skepticism, critical thinking, and a willingness to challenge the status quo. Prognosis: poor, given the current state of American politics.
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Project 2025 Policy Matches
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Introduction
— 336 — Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise on civil rights, the next conservative Administration should take sweeping action to assure that the purpose of the Civil Rights Act is not inverted through a disparate impact standard to provide a pretext for theoretically endless federal meddling. Assistance to States for the Education of Children with Disabilities; Preschool Grants for Children with Disabilities (Equity in IDEA) l Effective January 18, 2017, the department issued final regulations under Part B of IDEA that require states to consider race and ethnicity in the identification, placement, and discipline of students with disabilities. The new Administration should rescind this regulation. Students should never be denied access to special education services because of their race or ethnicity, but this is happening in school districts across the country thanks to the Obama Administration’s Equity in IDEA regulation. This was not the intent of the regulation, but it is an inevitable byproduct of its flawed assumptions. The Obama Administration looked at the racial statistics on special education assignment and made two assumptions: that African American students were dis- proportionately overrepresented, and that this overrepresentation constituted a harm that required federal pressure to ameliorate. School districts deemed to overrepresent minority students in special education assignment, or in discipline amongst special education students, are tagged by their state education agencies as engaging in “significant disproportionality,” and are required to reallocate 15 percent of their IDEA Part B money into coordinated early intervening services that are intended to address the “root causes of dispro- portionality.” In practice, this can mean raiding special education funding to pay for CRT-inspired “equity” consultants and professional development. This is especially problematic given that both of the assumptions behind Equity in IDEA are flawed. Special education services provide extra assistance to students; they do not harm them. And according to the most rigorous research on the subject, conducted by Penn State’s Paul Morgan, black students are actually underrep- resented in special education once adequate statistical controls are made. That means that this regulation effectively further depresses the provision of valuable services to an already underserved group. l The next Administration should immediately commence rulemaking to rescind the Equity in IDEA regulation. No replacement regulation is required. l The Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) should prepare a digest of the best research on this subject and share — 337 — Department of Education it directly with state superintendents and state special education leaders across the country, who have been led by this regulation to believe a false problem diagnosis. Every effort should be made to dissuade states from continuing to operate on the assumption that overrepresentation requires state intervention after the federal pressure is rescinded. Provide School Meals to Children in Need; Do Not Use Federal Meals to Support Radical Ideology In May 2022, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) tried to advance a radical political agenda using the federal school meal program. Nearly a century ago, federal lawmakers adopted the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) and School Breakfast Program (SBP) and other services that provide meals for K–12 students to give children from low-income families access to food while at school. Since the 1940s, federal lawmakers have greatly expanded these meal programs, creating an entitlement for nearly all students, regardless of family income levels, and have turned the meal programs into some of the most wasteful federal pro- grams in Washington. Now, the USDA is threatening to withhold federal taxpayer spending for these meals from schools that do not implement Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 so that the term “sex” is replaced with “sexual orientation and gender identity” (SOGI). l The next Administration should prohibit the USDA or any other federal agency from withholding services from federal or state agencies—including but not limited to K–12 schools—that choose not to replace “sex” with “SOGI” in that agency’s administration of Title IX. The Administration will have significant support for this policy change among state officials and Members of Congress. Twenty-two state attorneys general filed a lawsuit after the USDA’s announcement that the agency intended to withhold spending from schools that do not replace sex with SOGI. Members of Congress also introduced legislation in 2022 that would prohibit the agency from carrying out its intentions regarding Title IX. Phase Out Existing Income-Driven Repayment Plans While income-driven repayment (IDR) of student loans is a superior approach relative to fixed payment plans, the number of IDR plans has proliferated beyond reason. And recent IDR plans are so generous that they require no or only token repayment from many students. l The Secretary should phase out all existing IDR plans by making new loans (including consolidation loans) ineligible and should implement
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Policy matches are calculated using semantic similarity between bill summaries and Project 2025 policy text. A score of 60% or higher indicates meaningful thematic overlap. This does not imply direct causation or intent, but highlights areas where legislation aligns with Project 2025 policy objectives.