President Donald Trump issued an executive order Wednesday directing federal agencies to prioritize funding for school choice programs. The order instructs the Secretaries of Education and Labor to review discretionary grant programs and submit plans for expanding school choice initiatives. The Department of Education must provide guidance on federal funding formulas to support K-12 scholarship programs. At the same time, Health and Human Services will outline how states can allocate block grants for private and faith-based schools. A federal judge has issued a stay on the order.
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00:02President Donald Trump issued an executive order Wednesday directing federal agencies
00:06to prioritize funding for school choice programs. The order instructs the Secretaries of Education
00:11and Labor to review dysentery grant programs and submit plans for expanding school choice
00:16initiatives. The Department of Education must provide guidance on federal funding formulas
00:21to support K-12 scholarship programs, while Health and Human Services will outline how states
00:27can allocate block grants for private and faith-based schools.
00:30The federal judge has issued a stay on the order.
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