Improving Education Outcomes by Empowering Parents, States, and Communities
Headline: Closes Department of Education and Returns Control to States
What it does: Agencies must facilitate closing the Department of Education and return education authority to States while ensuring uninterrupted services.
- Shifts education responsibility from the federal government to State and local governments.
- May change management of the $1.6 trillion federal student loan portfolio and services.
- Limits federal funding for programs labeled 'diversity, equity, and inclusion' or promoting gender ideology.
Summary
This executive order directs the Secretary of Education to take steps to close the Department of Education and return authority over education to the States and local communities, while ensuring services continue uninterrupted. It requires federal education funds to comply with law and Administration policy and to end support for programs labeled "diversity, equity, and inclusion" or promoting "gender ideology."
People affected include students, parents, teachers, federal student loan borrowers, and state and local officials. The order aims to shift control of education from federal to state and local authority and change how student aid and funding are managed.
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