On the campaign trail, President Donald Trump vowed to disrupt public education in the United States. He pledged to eliminate the federal Department of Education, establish universal school choice and cut funding to schools “pushing critical race theory and transgender insanity,” as he said at a campaign event in Minnesota last July.
During his first term, Trump proposed deep cuts to Head Start and other early childhood education programs, which failed to pass Congress. He also signed an executive order allowing states to use federal money to provide vouchers, and he withdrew Obama-era guidance that had expanded discrimination protections to transgender students.
