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Jonathan Butcher, a senior research fellow for the Center for Education Policy at The Heritage Foundation, said that the new order should not have an impact on Catholic schools and will not prevent students in public or private schools from receiving the resources they need.
Since taking office, President Trump has signed several orders to combat gender ideology, which includes a Jan. 29 executive order related to K-12 schools.
COMMENTARY: Education should foster wisdom and virtue, not be a tool for ideological control.
The group Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) said the office’s action on Tuesday was “defying common sense.”
The outgoing president backed federal aid for Catholic schools hammered by the pandemic and reversed Obama’s school bathroom rules, but the long-term impact of his school-choice campaign is unclear.
COMMENTARY: Whether public or private, they will lose federal funding if they stifle free speech and religious freedom, according to new rules from the Department of Education.
The Department of Education on June 25 said that if private schools close, local public schools could be forced to enroll thousands of transfer students “at a time when public schools are already under their own financial strain.”
The Trump administration’s proposal would make Catholic schooling more accessible, but it raises concerns about federal overreach.
Declaring the previous Common Core and No Child Left Behind initiatives as top-down failures, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos wants to transfer responsibility back to parents and local authorities.
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