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Eugene

(62,954 posts)
Wed Jan 29, 2025, 06:40 AM Yesterday

Trump set to issue executive order boosting school choice programs

Source: The Hill

Trump set to issue executive order boosting school choice programs

by Alex Gangitano - 01/28/25 10:30 PM ET

President Trump is expected to issue an executive order to boost school choice programs by freeing up federal government spending towards it, a White House official confirmed.

CBS first reported on the expected order, which Trump is expected to sign on Wednesday. The order would direct the Department of Education to prioritize the usage of discretionary grant programs for school choice and direct the agency to issue guidance on how much money to give districts and schools for K-12 scholarship programs.

The order will direct the Department of Health and Human Services to issue guidance about states getting grants for families to use funding from the grant programs to support private and faith-based schools.

The order is also expected to direct newly sworn in Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to look into how military families can use school choice and report back to Trump how military families can use Department of Defense funding to send children of servicemembers to their choice of school.

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Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5112366-trump-executive-order-school-choice-programs/

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Universal "school choice" is a policy from Project 2025.

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Trump set to issue executive order boosting school choice programs (Original Post) Eugene Yesterday OP
IOW, taxpayer money going to private and religious schools. no_hypocrisy Yesterday #1
Diverting public funds to Christo-fascist schools Bread and Circuses Yesterday #2
The end of the public school system. Irish_Dem Yesterday #3

no_hypocrisy

(49,759 posts)
1. IOW, taxpayer money going to private and religious schools.
Wed Jan 29, 2025, 06:43 AM
Yesterday

Money deducted from federal aid to public schools.

Bread and Circuses

(395 posts)
2. Diverting public funds to Christo-fascist schools
Wed Jan 29, 2025, 06:55 AM
Yesterday

This has been the wet dream of the GOP and fake Christians for 30 years.

Rip money from the public schools to make them mediocre or fail and claim that it proves that
“government” schools are lousy.

The voucher system benefits wealthy families who are already sending their kids to academies, prep schools, etc,

Republicans hate everything that the Founders built.

Damn them all.

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