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What this site holds on education, taken from every part of it: the chapters of Project 2025 assigned to this subject, the actions recorded against those proposals, every order, presidential document, agency rule and public law whose own title carries one of this subject's words, and the measures the chamber voted on that the site already groups under it.

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This page is about education.

It gathers what the site holds on it. Parts of the book. Orders and rules. Laws. Votes in Congress.

Most things are here because a word from a short list is in the title. That list is at the foot of the page.

15
proposals
8
actions recorded
10
executive orders
5
other documents
8
agency rules
1
public laws
6
measures voted on

What Project 2025 proposes

Every proposal indexed from chapter 11 (Department of Education). A proposal in another chapter that touches this subject is not here.

What has happened against those proposals

Actions this site has already recorded against the proposals above, with the note that says how far each one goes. Nothing new is matched here: every pairing is the one on the proposal's own page.

Recorded against 2 proposals here

Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government

January 20, 2025 · 90 FR 8615

  • Restore the previous Title IX rule and define sex as biological: partly matches. Executive Order 14168 supplies the definitional half of what the chapter asks. It defines sex as an individual's immutable biological classification as either male or female, states that the definition shall govern all executive interpretation and application of federal law, directs the Attorney General to issue guidance correcting the application of Bostock v. Clayton County to sex based distinctions in agency activities, naming Title IX as the example, and rescinds the Education Department's Title IX guidance documents, including the 2024 implementation pointers and the 2021 enforcement guidance on sexual orientation and gender identity. It changes no regulation. The Title IX rule itself is untouched, no rulemaking is begun, and the order says nothing about reviewing or dropping investigations conducted on the earlier understanding.
  • Bar agencies from withholding services over the definition of sex: partly matches. Executive Order 14168 removes the federal premise the chapter is objecting to. Every agency must enforce laws governing sex based rights, protections, opportunities and accommodations to protect men and women as biologically distinct sexes, must give the terms sex, male and female the order's meanings when interpreting statutes, regulations and guidance, and the Attorney General is directed to correct the application of Bostock v. Clayton County to sex based distinctions in agency activities, with Title IX named. A school that keeps a biological definition of sex in administering Title IX is no longer at odds with the federal position. It is not the prohibition the chapter asks for. No provision bars an agency from withholding services over the definition of sex, the Department of Agriculture and the school meal programs are not mentioned, and the conditioning of federal money on a definition of sex continues in the other direction, since Executive Order 14201 directs agencies to review grants to educational programs and rescind funding where they do not comply with its sex based policy.
Partly matches

Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling

January 29, 2025 · 90 FR 8853

  • Make clear that parents have full access to their children's school records: partly matches. Executive Order 14190 treats access to school records as a parental right to be enforced. Its section 3(a)(ii) requires the Secretary of Education, with the Secretaries of Defense and Health and Human Services and in consultation with the Attorney General, to deliver a plan for protecting parental rights under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, and section 3(b)(iv)(A) requires an analysis of each agency's process for preventing or rescinding federal funds used to interfere with a parent's federal statutory right to information about school curriculum, records, physical examinations and surveys under that Act or the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment. What the chapter asks for is different in kind: a statement by the Secretary making clear that the Act allows parents full access to their children's educational records. The order produces a strategy for the President rather than guidance to schools, and it reaches only the policies and conduct implicated by that order's own subject.
Partly matches

Expanding Educational Freedom and Opportunity for Families

January 29, 2025 · 90 FR 8859

  • Give every parent an education savings account: partly matches. Addresses the chapter's subject of letting parents direct their child's share of education funding. The chapter's proposal was for education savings accounts funded overwhelmingly by state and local taxpayers, which is a matter for states; this order works on the federal levers available to it.
Partly matches

Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports

February 5, 2025 · 90 FR 9279

  • Restore the previous Title IX rule and define sex as biological: partly matches. Section 3(a)(i) of Executive Order 14201 directs the Secretary of Education, in coordination with the Attorney General, to continue to comply with the vacatur of the rule Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Sex in Education Programs or Activities Receiving Federal Financial Assistance of April 29, 2024, and to take other appropriate action to ensure that regulation does not have effect, and section 3(a)(ii) directs that regulations and policy guidance be brought into line with the statutory demand for equal athletic opportunity for members of both sexes. The rule the chapter would displace is therefore treated as having no effect. The route is not the one asked for. Nothing here opens a notice and comment rulemaking to restore the 2020 regulation, the action rests on a court's vacatur rather than on the department's own rulemaking, the order's subject is athletics rather than the whole regulation, and instead of dropping investigations opened on a gender identity reading of Title IX it directs new enforcement actions.
Recorded against 3 proposals here

Improving Education Outcomes by Empowering Parents, States, and Communities

March 20, 2025 · 90 FR 13679

  • Eliminate the Department of Education: partly matches. Shares the chapter's central aim. The chapter said plainly that eliminating the department requires Congress to pass a Department of Education Reorganization Act. An executive order cannot abolish a department created by statute, so this directs steps toward closure rather than achieving it.
  • Send federal education money to states as block grants with no strings: partly matches. Addresses the chapter's subject of returning control to states. Whether it produces the no-strings block grants the chapter asked for is not established by the order alone.
  • Confine the federal role to gathering statistics: partly matches. Executive Order 14242 directs the Secretary of Education to take all necessary steps, to the maximum extent appropriate and permitted by law, to facilitate the closure of the Department of Education and return authority over education to the states and local communities, and states that the department's main functions can and should be returned to the states. That is the withdrawal of the federal role the proposal describes. It stops short in both directions. The order says nothing about what federal function would remain, and does not mention statistics, the National Center for Education Statistics or the dissemination of information to the states, which is the role the chapter would keep. Its section 2(b) keeps conditions on the allocation of department funds, which is a continuing federal policy role. And closing the department takes an act of Congress, so the order directs steps toward closure rather than accomplishing it.
Recorded against 2 proposals here

To provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14

July 4, 2025 · 139 Stat. 72

  • Phase out existing income-driven repayment plans: closely matches. Section 82001 does what the proposal asks and by the means it names. For loans made on or after July 1, 2026 the Secretary may offer only a standard plan and the new Repayment Assistance Plan, and may not offer, carry out or change any other plan for such a loan. A consolidation loan offered on or after that date may be repaid only under those two. The income contingent repayment authority in section 455(e) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 is repealed, and every borrower repaying under an income contingent plan must move to another plan before July 1, 2028. Three things differ. It was done by statute rather than by the Secretary, as the chapter proposed. The replacement is not the chapter's design: payments run on a band from $120 a year at incomes of $10,000 or less up to 10 percent of adjusted gross income above $100,000, rather than 10 percent of income above the poverty line, and the balance is canceled after 360 payments, where the chapter would prefer no forgiveness at all. And income based repayment under section 493C survives, rewritten at 15 percent of income above 150 percent of the poverty line, so not every income driven plan is gone.
  • Reverse the 2010 federalization of student lending: partly matches. Section 81001 pulls the federal government out of part of the lending the 2010 change brought in. A graduate or professional student may not receive a Federal Direct PLUS Loan for any period of instruction beginning on or after July 1, 2026, annual unsubsidized borrowing is capped at $20,500 for a graduate student and $50,000 for a professional student, parent PLUS borrowing is capped at $20,000 a year and $65,000 for each dependent student, and a student may borrow no more than $257,500 in a lifetime. That reduces direct federal lending, which is the object of the proposal. It is not the reversal the chapter describes. Nothing spins Federal Student Aid off into a government corporation, nothing restores origination to private lenders or revisits the government's role as guarantor, and the Direct Loan program continues for everyone else, the section adding limits rather than changing who lends.
Partly matches

William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan (Direct Loan) Program

October 31, 2025 · 90 FR 48966

  • End loan forgiveness and expect borrowers to repay: partly matches. The Education Department's final regulations of October 31, 2025 rewrite the Public Service Loan Forgiveness rule to exclude employers that engage in enumerated illegal activities such that they have a substantial illegal purpose, and state the aim as keeping taxpayer dollars from subsidizing them. That answers the chapter's demand to end what it calls abuses in the loan forgiveness programs, and it carries out Executive Order 14235 of March 7, 2025, which ordered the rewrite. It does not reach the wider proposal: forgiveness itself continues, borrowers keep full credit for work performed until a determination takes effect, an excluded employer can regain eligibility, and nothing in the rule requires borrowers generally to repay what they owe.
Partly matches

Rescinding Portions of the Department of Education Title VI Regulations To Align With the Statutory Text and Conform to Executive Order 14281

July 24, 2026 · 91 FR 46733

  • Stop investigating civil rights cases based on disparate impact: partly matches. The Education Department's final rule of July 24, 2026 amends its Title VI regulations to eliminate disparate-impact liability, implementing Executive Order 14281 and following the Justice Department's change to its own Title VI regulations effective December 10, 2025. The department the passage names did the thing the passage asks for, by the regulation it asks for. The fit breaks down on the rest of the ask: this is a rule about what the regulations make unlawful, not the joint enforcement guidance from the department and the Justice Department that the passage calls for, so it does not say which complaints will or will not be investigated. Agriculture, Homeland Security, Transportation, Labor, Health and Human Services and the General Services Administration made the same change to their own Title VI rules.

Executive orders

Orders whose title carries one of this subject's words. The word is printed beside each one.

Proclamations, memoranda and the rest

Everything else the President signed whose title carries one of these words.

Agency rules

Final rules that name an executive order indexed here and whose title carries one of these words.

Public laws

Public laws of this Congress whose short title carries one of these words.

Roll call votes

Measures the House or Senate took a final vote on, kept in the grouping the site already publishes at how votes are grouped, which covers final-passage questions only.

How This Subject Is Put Together

The grouping is this site's reading, not anybody else's. Two rules decide what is on this page, and both of them can be checked against the thing they were read from.

The chapters. The proposals above are every proposal indexed from chapter 11 (Department of Education). Each chapter is assigned to the subjects the agencies and the matter it covers belong to. The whole table, all thirty chapters, is on the subjects page.

The words. An order, a presidential document, a rule or a law is here because one of these words appears in its own title, and the word that matched is printed beside it: education school student university college teacher accreditation literacy

A word in a title is a fact about the title. It is not a finding that the document is about this subject: a title can carry a word in another sense, and where it does the document is still listed, with the word shown, so the reader can see what put it there. The reverse also happens. A document about this subject whose title happens to use none of these words is not on this page, and the way to find it is the document index or the search.

Nothing here says whether an action carries a proposal out. Where this site has recorded a match between a proposal and an action, the match and its note are the ones already on the proposal's own page. Where it has not, no match is made here.

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