Section 3 · The General Welfare
📚Ch. 11 — Department of Education
ED · 15 tracked
Pass Department of Education Reorganization Act to wind down the agency
Proposed
Mandate’s core plan is to redistribute programs, convert funding to flexible state block grants, eliminate ineffective programs, and have Congress pass a Department of Education Reorganization (or Liquidating Authority) Act to dissolve ED as a Cabinet department.
Block-grant or transfer OESE/OSERS programs; move IDEA funds via HHS
Proposed
Mandate would move Head Start-adjacent and many K–12 offices out of ED: OESE programs block-granted/eliminated, IDEA mostly to HHS Administration for Community Living as no-strings LEA grants, CTE to Labor, Indian programs to BIE, and residual civil-rights assets to DOJ.
Reverse 2010 loan federalization; spin FSA into a government corporation
Proposed
Mandate would reverse Direct Loan federalization, create a professionally governed federal student-loan corporation, assign collections to Treasury, and end using the portfolio as a campaign fund for forgiveness.
Move Office for Civil Rights to DOJ with litigation-only enforcement
Proposed
Mandate relocates OCR to the Department of Justice and limits enforcement to litigation rather than administrative funding threats.
Rescind Biden Charter School Program priorities and federal restrictions
Proposed
Mandate says ED’s March 2022 CSP priorities increase the federal footprint contrary to statute and must be rescinded immediately to lessen restrictions on charter schools.
Rescind nonbinary CRDC sex category and restore male/female athletics data
Proposed
Mandate orders quick rescission of OCR’s proposed nonbinary CRDC category and restoration of male/female interscholastic athletics data collections relevant to Title IX.
Rescind expanded BDR, closed-school discharge, and PSLF regulations
Proposed
Mandate demands negotiated rulemaking to rescind July 2023-effective borrower-defense, closed-school, and PSLF expansions and arbitration/class-waiver bans, citing unauthorized cost to taxpayers, plus rescinding related accreditation Dear Colleague letters.
Rescind Biden Title IX rule; restore DeVos rule; define sex as biological sex at birth
Proposed
Mandate would use appropriations riders against Biden Title IX rules, restore the May 2020 DeVos Title IX regulation, define sex as biological sex at birth, amend Title IX for due process and faith protections, drop SOGI-based investigations, and affirm FERPA parental access.
End Title VI disparate-impact school-discipline enforcement; clarify no disparate-impact standard
Proposed
Mandate continues Trump policy rejecting disparate-impact discipline theory, reviews Title VI cases/resolution agreements, issues joint ED–DOJ guidance ending exclusive disparate-impact investigations, rescinds Biden guidance/rules, and promulgates a regulation stating Title VI has no disparate-impact standard.
Rescind Equity in IDEA significant-disproportionality regulation
Proposed
Mandate would immediately rescind the 2017 Equity in IDEA rule requiring race/ethnicity consideration in identification/placement/discipline and redirecting 15% of Part B funds, arguing it harms underserved Black students.
Prohibit USDA from withholding school meals over SOGI Title IX interpretations
Proposed
Mandate says the next Administration should bar USDA or other agencies from withholding services—including K–12 meals—from entities that refuse to replace “sex” with SOGI under Title IX.
Phase out existing IDR plans; replace with stricter poverty-line 10% plan
Proposed
Mandate directs the Secretary to make new loans ineligible for current IDR plans and implement a new plan with poverty-line exemption and 10% of income above it, preferably with no forgiveness (or 25-year forgiveness if statute requires), rejecting Biden’s more generous IDR proposal.
Advance education savings accounts via federal spending portability and tax credits
Proposed
Mandate’s principles call for empowering family choice through portability of existing federal education dollars and/or federal tax credits for contributions to nonprofit-managed K–12 ESAs, plus special federal responsibility for military, D.C., and Tribal students.
Congress should rescind the National Education Association’s federal charter
Proposed
Mandate explicitly recommends that Congress rescind the NEA’s federal charter as part of reducing special-interest capture of federal education policy.
Loosen accreditation cartel, cap university indirect costs, wind down area studies
Proposed
Mandate urges HEA amendments to break accreditation monopoly dynamics, congressional caps on university indirect cost rates, and winding down Title VI-style area studies while issuing interim regulations—part of exposing schools to market forces.