Trump expected to sign executive actions on school choice and school funding, and combating antisemitism | CNN Politics

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : “He also will sign executive orders addressing school choice, ending funding for public schools that support critical race theory and other divisive measures in their curriculums.
55% : An additional expected executive action will end funding for public schools that support critical race theory and “other divisive measures in their curriculums,” according to Leavitt.
53% : The secretary of interior is ordered to submit a plan to Trump on how families with students attending Bureau of Indian Education schools can use federal money to attend the school of their choice.
51% : CNN — President Donald Trump is expected to sign several executive actions Wednesday that fulfill promises he made on the campaign trail, including on school choice, ending funding for schools that support critical race theory and combating antisemitism, according to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt.
51% : In the week and a half since he’s been in office, Trump has signed a flurry of executive actions as he’s sought to remake the federal government and enact his sweeping “America First” agenda, with a particular target on so-called diversity, equity and inclusion programs.
50% : Public school advocates believe eventually school choice will mean the end of public schools and an increase in education inequity.
48% : The Department of Defense is ordered to submit a plan to Trump directly on how military families can use DOD funds to send children to their preferred school.
45% : Among its directives, the Department of Education – which Trump has vowed to shut down – is ordered to issue guidance on using federal funding to support scholarship programs for grade school students.
44% : The action on school choice — an issue that Trump has been pushing for eight years — could be a huge win for conservative activists and politicians who have been advocating for decades to make it easier for families to spend taxpayer funds on private education.
42% : A CNN analysis found that all of the 15 states that relied most heavily on federal support for their public schools in 2022 voted for Trump, while all but two of the 15 states that received the least federal dollars as a percentage of their overall revenue voted for Vice President Kamala Harris.
40% : Republicans have seized on critical race theory — which seeks to understand and address inequality and racism in the US — as a political issue to argue that the left is out of touch with Americans’ priorities.
31% : As CNN has reported, some of Trump’s education proposals — like eliminating the Department of Education and slashing federal funding for public schools — could hit areas that voted for him the hardest.
30% : On the campaign trail, Trump railed against pro-Palestinian student protests, which broke out in response to Israel’s military response in Gaza after Hamas’ October 7, 2023, attack on Israel.
22% : But public school advocates and public school teachers’ unions have long been against redirecting taxpayer dollars from public schools to private schools, saying it would harm poorer public schools.

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