Improving Education Outcomes by Empowering Parents, States, and Communities

The order seeks to dismantle the federal education bureaucracy while requiring uninterrupted delivery of existing services, programs, and benefits.

What the order does ​

• Directs the Education Secretary to take all legally permitted and appropriate steps to facilitate the department’s closure.
• Directs the return of education authority to states and local communities.
• Requires continued delivery of federal education services, programs, and benefits during the transition.
• Conditions department funding on compliance with federal law and administration policy, including ending programs the administration considers illegal discrimination under diversity, equity, and inclusion labels or promotion of gender ideology.

Who it affects ​

• Students, families, teachers, schools, colleges, and student-loan borrowers relying on federal education programs.
• States and local communities expected to assume greater education authority.
• Department of Education employees and recipients of department funding.

Context ​

The closure effort must comply with existing law and available appropriations.