Expected policy changes to U.S. public education under the Trump administration will likely involve areas such as universal school choice, critical race theory, transgender ideology, student college debt relief, and higher education accreditation.
In addition, the fate of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) itself hangs in the balance—though dismantling it would require an act of Congress.
“We will send Education BACK TO THE STATES, and Linda will spearhead that effort,” Trump wrote in a Nov. 19 statement when announcing his nomination of Linda McMahon to lead the DOE in his administration.
The Department of Education was established in 1979 by President Jimmy Carter.
Its scope was to ensure equal educational opportunities, to share research and information that can help state and local education agencies, to provide additional funds to very low-income schools that cannot get by with just state aid and local property tax dollars; and to administer federal grant and loan programs for higher education. […]
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