New Trump Executive Order Bans Critical Race Theory, Gender Ideology in Public Education
Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell, Daily Signal, January 29, 2025
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday prohibiting federal funding of K-12 schools that promote critical race theory or radical gender ideology.
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This is in keeping with Trump’s campaign promise to defund any school that taught “critical race theory, transgender insanity, and other inappropriate racial, sexual, or political content.”
The secretary of education will have 90 days to lay out a strategy on how to end CRT and gender ideology lessons in schools. Trump nominated Linda McMahon as his education secretary. She has yet to be confirmed by the Senate.
The executive order will reinstate the 1776 Commission, which Trump created in 2020 to promote “patriotic education” through increased understanding of U.S. history and its founding principles.
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“In many cases, innocent children are compelled to adopt identities as either victims or oppressors solely based on their skin color and other immutable characteristics,” the order says. {snip}
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