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Proc 9837ProclamationTrump 45 · RCeremonial

Proclamation 9837

National School Choice Week, 2019

This proclamation designates January 20-26, 2019 as National School Choice Week, celebrating various educational options including charter schools, private schools, homeschooling, and online programs. It highlights the Trump Administration's education policies, including expansion of D.C. Opportunity Scholarships and 529 plan changes from the 2017 tax reform, but does not create new programs, mandates, or legal obligations.

Federal Register Open PDF 84 FR 361

Impact dates

  1. National School Choice Week begins

Key directives

No discrete directives extracted.

Timeline

Immediate

  • Proclamation takes effect upon signing; ceremonial observance period January 20-26, 2019

Near term (90d)

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Long term

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Risks & tensions

  • Document frames education choice in partisan terms ('fight for the best educational opportunities') but stops short of policy action
  • Vague urging of lawmakers to 'embrace and expand education choice' carries no enforcement mechanism
  • International ranking statistics cited without methodological context
Proclamation 9837: National School Choice Week, 2019 · Executive Orders