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Drawing on 62 interviews with actors across global and national organizations, it analyzes how funding cuts disrupt schooling access and education sector stability, while also revealing possibilities for reconfigured aid relationships. 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[https://journals.sagepub.com/home/ero](https://journals.sagepub.com/home/ero)  \n“A Planet Shaker”: Educational Impacts of USAID’s Dismantling  \nRachel Silver  \nYork University  \nFrancine Menashy  \nUniversity of Toronto  \nAlyssa Morley  \nMichigan State University  \nIn early 2025, President Trump froze and then gutted the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), slashing more than $50 billion of aid spending. The speed and scale of Trump’s cuts sent shockwaves around the world and destabilized a global order in which the United States wielded tremendous financial and symbolic power through its foreign aid. Although significant media attention has been paid to cuts’devastating ramifications for global public health, little is known about the consequences of the funding cuts to international development education. In this article, we drew on 62 interviews with actors situated within both global and national organizations to consider how USAID closures have transformed education globally. Our findings indicate that development actors see in this moment both widespread damage to education sectors and the possibilityfor newly configured aid and educational relations.  \nKeywords: international education/studies, comparative education, critical theory, in-depth interviewing, qualitative research, USAID, foreign aid, international development education, Malawi  \nIntroduction  \nIn early 2025, President Trump froze and then gutted the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), slashing more than $50 billion of aid spending (Walker et al., 2025) . By July 2025, he had shuttered USAID entirely. The speed and scale of Trump’s cuts sent shockwaves around the world and destabilized a global order in which the United States wielded tremendous financial and symbolic power through its foreign aid. Significant media attention has been paid to the devastating ramifications of USAID’s closure for global public health and food security (e.g., Malik, 2025; Mandavilli, 2025) . Yet, millions of young people also risk losing access to schooling (UNESCO, 2025b) .  \nAlthough unique in its scope, USAID’s closure is part of a broader global shift toward aid austerity, which includes reductions from the United Kingdom, Germany, and France.1 In fact, global aid spending decreased by a third in 2025 alone (Ferris, 2025), transforming the organizational landscapes of international development and radically reconfiguring the possibilities and practices of schooling worldwide (Madgi & Amiri, 2025; Save the Children, 2025) .  \nIn this article, we drew on 62 interviews with actors situated within both global and national organizations to explore how people working within the international development industry understand the consequences of funding cuts to education as they unfold. In doing so, we considered the implications of this moment for a broader transformation of the international development education (IDE) sector. This research builds on critical development scholarship that has demonstrated how, while foreign aid can meaningfully impact lives, the global aid system—the organizations, funding mechanisms, policies, and programs that scaffold development and humanitarian activities—is deeply flawed, reproducing power hierarchies rooted in colonial histories and relationships (e.g., Escobar, 1995; Kothari, 1990; Menashy & Zakharia, 2022; Schmitt, 2020) .2 Aid projects often bypass local institutions and government structures, limiting their long-term efficacy (Chasukwa & Banik, 2019; Moyo & Imafidon, 2021) . Education projects designed externally can misalign with local understandings, needs, and priorities (Silver & Morley, 2022; Tabulawa, 2003) . They are also notoriously unstable, contingent on p","cbCais0gIvUQWJbh","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCais0gIvUQWJbh","pdf",465151,18,"English","# Introduction\n## USAID cuts and global aid austerity\n## Research approach and theoretical framing\n## Research questions and study scope","[{\"question\":\"What event does the article focus on regarding USAID in 2025?\",\"answer\":\"It focuses on President Trump’s early-2025 freezing and gutting of USAID, followed by the agency’s closure by July 2025, alongside large-scale reductions in aid spending.\"},{\"question\":\"How did the authors study the consequences for education?\",\"answer\":\"They conducted 62 interviews with actors located in both global and national organizations to examine how people in the international development industry understand education-related impacts of funding cuts.\"},{\"question\":\"What does the article find about effects on education sectors?\",\"answer\":\"Development actors see widespread damage to education sectors, alongside the possibility of newly configured aid and educational relations.\"}]","A Planet Shaker - Educational Impacts of USAID’s Dismantling | PDF",1792069547,45]