From Politico: President Donald Trump disrupted universities and school districts in 2025 through sheer executive muscle. Now comes the harder part: making sure his policies outlast his presidency. Trump signed a dizzying number of education-related executive orders — spanning from diversity initiatives to college oversight — launched a barrage of civil rights investigations into schools, froze billions in federal research cash and started his long-promised dismantling of the Education Department.
His actions were designed to pressure schools into adopting policies that align with his political agenda, bolster parental rights and give states more control over their schools. In many ways, the moves worked: Some schools responded by eliminating diversity programs, barring transgender students from women’s sports and striking unprecedented deals with the White House hoping to get their federal research cash flowing again...
To make lasting changes, Trump’s next move will be to make his policies harder to unravel. “This has been a year of enforcement through investigation,” said Bob Eitel, who served as former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’ senior counsel and is now president of the Defense of Freedom Institute, a conservative think tank. “Next year will be the year of rulemaking.” Even though Trump has three more years in his second term, he is actually short on time to make that happen because writing regulations is often long, detailed and painstaking work. It’s the type of labor that would have been done by the career employees he spent months pushing out of their jobs...
Generally, rules must be finalized by Nov. 1 to take effect by July. If not, a rule’s implementation could be delayed a year. The law’s deadlines and the department’s regulatory calendar rule, combined with the agency’s reduced workforce, could pose significant hurdles...
Full story at https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/04/trump-upended-the-us-education-system-in-2025-its-only-the-beginning-00693857.
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