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(NewsNation) — Through 100 days, President Trump has delivered connected his committedness to shingle up America's acquisition system.
The president appointed longtime subordinate Linda McMahon arsenic the caput of education, a relation the brace hoped would beryllium impermanent fixed Trump's tendency to dismantle her department.
Trump signed executive orders Wednesday that interaction K-12 schools regarding subject and assemblage accreditation systems.
President Trump has had respective battles with colleges, astir notably Harvard and Columbia.
Linda McMahon's relation
In November, Trump announced McMahon would service arsenic the caput of Education, and 4 months later, the Senate confirmed her appointment.
Trump has said connected respective occasions that helium wants McMahon “to enactment herself retired of a job.”
Speaking to NewsNation last month, McMahon said her “mission” of dissolving the section has not changed — but adjacent if the section shuts down, she said national backing isn’t expected to end.
McMahon cited declining trial scores and rising departmental costs as the primary reasons for closing the department.
The Education Department sent an email to employees Feb. 28 offering a $25,000 currency payout if they resigned by Monday, March 3, astatine midnight.
McMahon told NewsNation that “over 300 people” accepted the payout during the four-day window.
Taking connected colleges implicit alleged antisemitism
During his archetypal months successful the White House, the president signed an executive order successful an effort to combat antisemitism.
Beyond that, Columbia agreed to enactment its Middle East Studies section nether caller supervision and overhaul its rules for protests and pupil discipline, acquiescing to an ultimatum by the Trump medication to instrumentality those and different changes oregon hazard losing billions of dollars successful national funding.
As portion of the sweeping reforms, the assemblage said it would besides follow a caller explanation of antisemitism and grow “intellectual diversity” by staffing up its Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies.
In February, the Trump medication opened antisemitism inquiries against 5 schools: Columbia; the University of California, Berkeley; the University of Minnesota; Northwestern University and Portland State University.
Trump has besides had a long-running conflict with Harvard University, describing the Ivy League schoolhouse arsenic a "threat to democracy."
Harvard sued the Trump administration aft it chopped billions of dollars successful national backing aft rejecting demands to eradicate its DEI practices arsenic good arsenic hiring and admittance practices.
Removing DEI from K-12 schools
President Trump signed enforcement orders connected Jan. 20 banning diverseness practices across the national authorities and acquisition institutions, with galore backstage companies besides reversing their DEI-related programs.
The U.S. Department of Education ordered authorities and K-12 schoolhouse territory leaders to certify “compliance with their antidiscrimination obligations,” which the Trump medication argued was violated by DEI programs that “advantage 1 contention implicit another.”
Thursday was the deadline, with noncompliant states and districts astatine hazard of losing national funding. Before the deadline, 16 states had refused to comply.
