President Trump's recent executive orders target the educational landscape by promoting an anti-woke agenda focused on race, gender, and American history. One order threatens federal funding for schools that recognize transgender identities or discuss critical social theories, while promoting a version of patriotic education. The second order seeks to broaden access to private school vouchers. These efforts align with a nationwide trend of conservative policies affecting education, but the unique structure of localized control in U.S. education raises potential legal and logistical hurdles for federal intervention.
On Wednesday evening, Mr. Trump signed two executive orders... threatening their federal funding. The order also promotes patriotic education that depicts the American founding as unifying.
The second order directs a swath of federal agencies to look for ways to expand access to private school vouchers.
The effort is likely to run into legal, logistical and funding trouble as it tests the limits of federal power over K-12 education.
Over the past five years, the number of children using taxpayer dollars for private education or home-schooling costs has doubled, to one million.
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