Executive Order 14242: Improving Education Outcomes by Empowering Parents, States, and Communities

What the order contains

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• Sec. 1. Purpose and Policy
• Sec. 2. Closing the Department of Education and Returning Authority to the States
• Sec. 3. General Provisions

Section 1, quoted from the order

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Our Nation's bright future relies on empowered families, engaged communities, and excellent educational opportunities for every child. Unfortunately, the experiment of controlling American education through Federal programs and dollars--and the unaccountable bureaucracy those programs and dollars support--has plainly failed our children, our teachers, and our families. Taxpayers spent around $200 billion at the Federal level on schools during the COVID-19 pandemic, on top of the more than $60 billion they spend annually on Federal school funding. This money is largely distributed by one of the newest Cabinet agencies, the Department of Education, which has existed for less than one fifth of our Nation's history. […]