As movement lawyers at Advancement Project , w e support grassroots organizers around the country fighting for community con trol and a liberatory education in schools. Last summe r, we wrote an op-ed in TIME to sound the alarm of a dist urbing trend —we were hear ing from the ground that once again, school district leaders were trying to close local public schools in Black , Latine , and low-income communities. We published the op-ed shortly after the public learned about Project 2025 and its plan to eliminate the institution of public education. W e were already seeing this plan get carried...