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Kathryn Joyce

Journalist

Dec 12, 2025

4:05
What do you think are some of the most important stories coming out of the Trump administration's education policy?
4:10
yeah um there's been there's been so much happening um on that front uh when we talked last i i had just wrapped up a long piece kind of looking at how what had happened to the new college of florida um maybe was primed to kind of be the the model for what would happen under the second Trump administration.
4:37
And I think that has happened in spades.
4:41
It's happened so quickly and so much has happened that I had to go back and look at some documents just from earlier this year to sort of refresh my memory of, you know, a small slice of the things that have happened.
4:57
I mean, obviously, kind of the big thing is that they are trying to essentially do away with the Department of Education, offloading a number of its functions to other departments, probably where they're going to be handled in a way that is much worse for many of the people who are protected under various programs that the DOE used to have.
5:27
So that's kind of, you know, the big picture thing that they are doing.
5:30
In terms of, you know, some of the other stuff that's been going on, I mean...

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28:31
um all right so this is my last question uh it's only been a year and we have at least three left looking back on the past 12 months how would you sum up this first year of the second trump administration is there anything that surprised you and where do you see things going from here

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