Private school vouchers and other school choice initiatives would expand under an order coming from President Donald Trump telling government agencies to repurpose federal dollars.

The White House has no authority over curriculum, and no ability to unilaterally pull back federal dollars, but Trump is toeing the line.

President Donald Trump signed a pair of executive orders that could transform public K-12 education in the United States. The first is an

One order also reinstates the 1776 Commission that Trump created during his first term in office to promote patriotic education.

In a related executive order signed this week, Trump directed the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to increase capacity at the Migrant Operations Center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. This is aimed at housing asylum seekers and individuals who enter the U.S. illegally before their cases are processed.

Trump signed orders Wednesday to punish schools for teaching about race and gender, promote school choice, and facilitate deportation for some campus protesters.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order directing federal agencies to find ways to favor school choice programs.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at expanding educational opportunities for American families by enhancing school choice programs. The order directs federal agencies to support state scholarship programs, private and faith-based education, and alternatives for military and Native American families through flexible funding.

The measures seek to fulfill some of the Republican president's core campaign promises around education, though it's unclear how much power he has to enact the proposals.

(Reuters) -President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed executive orders to promote parental choice in school selection and end federal funding for curricula that he called the "indoctrination" of students in "anti-American" ideologies on race and gender.

President Donald Trump visits a classroom at St. Andrew Catholic School in Orlando, Fla., on March 3, 2017. Trump issued an executive order on Jan. 29, 2025, that aims to end what he calls "radical indoctrination" in the nation's schools.