Education
155 orders · avg impact 5.3 · 25 quiet
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Restoring Trust in the Smithsonian Institution
This executive order directs Interior, OMB, GSA, and the Domestic Policy Council to use available authorities to address alleged ideological bias at the Smithsonian Institution and its National Museum of American History, based on a prior administration report. It mandates temporary signage and exhibits on National Park Service property near the Museum to warn visitors of the report's findings and correct perceived inaccuracies.
Sequestration Order for Fiscal Year 2027 Pursuant to Section 251A of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act, as Amended
This presidential order triggers automatic spending cuts (sequestration) for fiscal year 2027, requiring OMB-calculated reductions to direct spending in non-exempt budget accounts effective October 1, 2026, as mandated by the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act.
Urgent National Action To Save College Sports
This executive order imposes federal contract and grant consequences on major college athletic programs that violate interstate athletic governing body rules on eligibility, transfers, revenue-sharing, and NIL payments, effective August 1, 2026. It also directs federal agencies to challenge state laws that conflict with these rules and encourages the NCAA to establish national standards including age limits, transfer restrictions, and revenue-sharing guardrails for women's and Olympic sports.
Fostering the Future for American Children and Families
This executive order directs HHS to modernize the U.S. foster care system through data transparency, AI-powered tools for caregiver matching, a new "Fostering the Future" initiative for youth transitioning out of care, and increased partnerships with faith-based organizations. It establishes a 180-day deadline for regulatory updates, platform development, and strategic planning across multiple agencies.
Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking
This executive order overhauls federal grantmaking by requiring senior political appointees to review all discretionary grants and funding announcements, bans funding for DEI initiatives, transgender education, illegal immigration support, and 'anti-American values,' mandates termination-for-convenience clauses in all grants, limits indirect costs at universities, and directs OMB to revise the Uniform Guidance to streamline applications and reduce administrative overhead.
President's Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition, and the Reestablishment of the Presidential Fitness Test
This executive order revokes EO 13824 (2018) and amends EO 13265 (2002) to reestablish the President's Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition and the Presidential Fitness Test. It creates a 30-member advisory council to recommend strategies for youth fitness testing, school-based programs, and addressing health trends linked to military readiness, with HHS providing administrative support and the Secretary of HHS administering the fitness test alongside the Secretary of Education.
Saving College Sports
This executive order seeks to preserve college sports by directing federal agencies to curb third-party pay-for-play payments to athletes, protect non-revenue and women's sports through scholarship and roster requirements, and shield collegiate athletics from antitrust litigation. It mandates plans from the Education Secretary, Attorney General, and FTC within 30-60 days to advance these goals using regulatory, enforcement, and litigation mechanisms.
Enhancing National Security by Addressing Risks at Harvard University
This proclamation suspends entry of foreign students and exchange visitors seeking to attend Harvard University on F, M, or J visas, citing national security concerns over Harvard's alleged failure to provide disciplinary records of foreign students to DHS, rising campus crime, foreign funding entanglements (particularly with China), and ongoing civil rights investigations. The suspension lasts 6 months with a 90-day review for extension, and directs the Secretary of State to consider revoking current Harvard foreign students' visas while allowing national-interest exceptions.
Sequestration Order for Fiscal Year 2026 Pursuant to Section 251A of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act, as Amended
This presidential order triggers automatic across-the-board spending cuts (sequestration) for fiscal year 2026, effective October 1, 2025, applying to all non-exempt budget accounts based on calculations in an OMB report transmitted to Congress on the same day. The cuts are mandated by the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act and implemented according to OMB's specifications.
Restoring Gold Standard Science
This executive order mandates federal agencies adopt 'Gold Standard Science' principles—reproducibility, transparency, uncertainty acknowledgment, and unbiased peer review—in all scientific activities. It requires public data disclosure for influential scientific information, revokes Biden-era scientific integrity policies and organizational changes from January 2021, and installs senior appointees to enforce compliance, with broad exemptions for national security matters at agency discretion.
Establishment of the Religious Liberty Commission
This executive order establishes a 14-member Religious Liberty Commission, supported by three advisory boards, to study and report on threats to religious liberty in the United States and recommend policy responses. The Commission is tasked with producing a comprehensive report on religious liberty foundations, current threats, and preservation strategies, with a termination date of July 4, 2026.
Advancing Artificial Intelligence Education for American Youth
This executive order establishes a White House Task Force on AI Education and directs multiple federal agencies to expand AI literacy and training across K-12 education, teacher professional development, and workforce apprenticeship programs. It creates a Presidential AI Challenge competition, mandates public-private partnerships for educational resources, and requires agency heads to prioritize AI in existing grant programs within 90-180 days.
Preparing Americans for High-Paying Skilled Trade Jobs of the Future
This executive order directs a review and streamlining of federal workforce development programs to align with U.S. reindustrialization goals, with a focus on expanding Registered Apprenticeships to over 1 million active apprentices. It mandates reports within 90 and 120 days identifying program consolidations, alternative credentials to four-year degrees, and strategies to upskill workers including in AI-related roles.
Reforming Accreditation To Strengthen Higher Education
This executive order directs the Secretary of Education to reform the higher education accreditation system by holding accreditors accountable for imposing DEI requirements that the administration deems unlawfully discriminatory, particularly targeting law and medical school accreditors. It mandates new accreditation principles focused on student outcomes, intellectual diversity, and reduced barriers to educational innovation, while threatening denial or termination of federal recognition for noncompliant accreditors.
Reinstating Commonsense School Discipline Policies
This executive order directs the Department of Education and other agencies to replace what it terms "discriminatory equity ideology" in school discipline with behavior-based policies. It requires new guidance to schools, coordination with states, revised discipline codes for military families' schools, and a report on Title VI discipline investigations and federal grant funding.
Transparency Regarding Foreign Influence at American Universities
This executive order directs the Secretary of Education to robustly enforce Section 117 of the Higher Education Act, which requires universities to report foreign funding. It mandates reversing prior administration policies that weakened enforcement, requiring more specific disclosure of funding sources and purposes, increasing public access to information, and making compliance a condition for receiving federal grants. The order also directs coordination with the Attorney General to hold non-compliant institutions accountable.
White House Initiative To Promote Excellence and Innovation at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
This executive order re-establishes the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in the Executive Office of the President, creates a new President's Board of Advisors on HBCUs in the Department of Education, and revokes the Biden administration's EO 14041 on HBCUs. It directs federal agencies to assist the Initiative and tasks it with increasing private-sector engagement, improving HBCU infrastructure and research competitiveness, and implementing the HBCU PARTNERS Act.
Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History
This executive order directs the Vice President to use his role on the Smithsonian Board of Regents to remove what the administration characterizes as divisive ideological content from Smithsonian institutions. It mandates the Secretary of the Interior to review and restore monuments altered since 2020, and requires OMB and Interior to ensure future Smithsonian appropriations exclude exhibits deemed to degrade American values or divide by race. Independence National Historical Park is to receive infrastructure improvements by July 4, 2026.
Improving Education Outcomes by Empowering Parents, States, and Communities
This executive order directs the Secretary of Education to take all legally permitted steps to facilitate the closure of the Department of Education and return education authority to states and local communities, while ensuring uninterrupted delivery of services. It also mandates that federal education funds comply with administration policy, including terminating DEI and gender ideology programs. The order does not itself dissolve the department, acknowledging congressional action would be required for full closure.
Restoring Public Service Loan Forgiveness
This executive order directs the Secretary of Education to propose regulatory revisions narrowing Public Service Loan Forgiveness eligibility by excluding employees of organizations deemed to engage in activities with a 'substantial illegal purpose,' including immigration law violations, terrorism support, child abuse, illegal discrimination, and certain state tort violations. The order frames this as correcting prior administration abuses and protecting national security.
Implementing the President's "Department of Government Efficiency" Cost Efficiency Initiative
This executive order directs federal agencies to implement cost-cutting measures through a "Department of Government Efficiency" (DOGE) framework, requiring new technological systems for payment justifications, reviews of contracts and grants with priority on educational institutions and foreign entities, freezes on agency credit cards, and real property disposition planning. Agency heads must complete most reviews within 30 days and face new constraints on contracting, travel, and spending authority.
Keeping Education Accessible and Ending COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates in Schools
This executive order prohibits federal discretionary funds from supporting schools or universities that require COVID-19 vaccination for in-person attendance. It directs the Secretary of Education to issue guidelines on parental authority and religious freedom related to such mandates, and to submit a 90-day plan for ending coercive COVID-19 school mandates, including identifying non-compliant institutions and processes to rescind their federal funding.
Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports
This executive order directs federal agencies to enforce Title IX by withholding funds from educational programs that allow males to compete in women's sports. It mandates policy changes across education, immigration, diplomacy, and international sports governance to restrict participation in female athletic categories to biological women, and requires convening domestic and international stakeholders within 60 days.
Additional Measures To Combat Anti-Semitism
This executive order reaffirms EO 13899 on combating anti-Semitism and directs federal agencies to report within 60 days on additional legal authorities to address post-October 7, 2023 campus anti-Semitism. It specifically requires agencies to inventory civil rights complaints and cases against higher education institutions, encourages use of civil-rights enforcement tools including 18 U.S.C. 241, and directs State, Education, and Homeland Security to recommend ways to monitor and report foreign students and staff for potential immigration inadmissibility under 8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(3).
Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling
This executive order directs federal agencies to develop a strategy within 90 days to cut funding to K-12 schools that promote "gender ideology" or "discriminatory equity ideology," mandates parental notification policies, reestablishes the President's Advisory 1776 Commission to promote patriotic education, and requires agencies to prioritize federal resources for patriotic education programs. It also directs the Attorney General to coordinate prosecution of teachers and school officials for certain activities related to social transition of minors.
Expanding Educational Freedom and Opportunity for Families
This executive order directs multiple Cabinet secretaries to issue guidance and plans expanding K-12 educational choice, including private and faith-based school options, through federal formula funds, discretionary grants, and existing block grant programs. It targets military families, low-income working families receiving child care subsidies, and Bureau of Indian Education-eligible students, with most actions due within 60-90 days.
Restoring America's Fighting Force
This executive order abolishes all Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) offices and programs within the Department of Defense and Coast Guard, prohibits teaching of 'divisive concepts,' 'gender ideology,' and critical views of America's founding documents at military educational institutions, and mandates internal reviews and implementation reports. It directs the Secretaries of Defense and Homeland Security to eliminate race- and sex-based preferences in favor of meritocratic, 'color-blind and sex-neutral' processes.
Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity
This executive order revokes multiple prior executive actions related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in federal employment and contracting, terminates affirmative action requirements for federal contractors, mandates removal of DEI principles from federal procurement and grant processes, and directs agencies to develop enforcement plans targeting private-sector DEI programs that the administration deems illegal discrimination.
Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government
This executive order establishes a federal policy recognizing only two immutable sexes (male and female), explicitly rejecting gender identity as a basis for federal policy. It mandates that all federal agencies use sex-based definitions in all documents and communications, rescinds multiple Biden-era executive orders and guidance documents on transgender rights, prohibits federal funding for gender-affirming medical care for inmates, directs changes to government IDs to reflect biological sex, and requires agencies to remove all materials promoting gender ideology.
Combating Emerging Firearms Threats and Improving School-Based Active-Shooter Drills
This executive order establishes an interagency task force to develop strategies against emerging firearms threats, specifically machinegun conversion devices and 3D printed ghost guns, requiring reports within 90 days. It also directs the Departments of Education and Homeland Security to publish guidance on improving school-based active-shooter drills within 110 days, with attention to trauma reduction and civil rights compliance.
Investing in America and Investing in American Workers
This executive order directs federal agencies to prioritize high labor standards—including prevailing wages, project labor agreements, union neutrality, and workforce development—when awarding federal financial assistance under the Investing in America agenda (infrastructure, CHIPS, and clean energy laws). It establishes an interagency task force to coordinate implementation and requires agencies to embed job quality criteria into grant-making processes.
White House Initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity Through Hispanic-Serving Institutions
This executive order establishes a White House Initiative within the Department of Education and a President's Board of Advisors to strengthen Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) by improving their access to federal resources, promoting best practices, and expanding educational and economic opportunities for Hispanic and Latino students. The Initiative focuses on addressing funding disparities, improving infrastructure, aligning programs with workforce needs, and building partnerships with public and private organizations.
Recognizing and Honoring Women's History
This executive order directs the Department of the Interior to strengthen federal recognition of women's history through National Park Service theme studies, site assessments, and advisory recommendations over the next decade. It requires reports on existing sites related to women's history, new theme studies covering diverse women across historical periods, and input for the Smithsonian American Women's History Museum.
Scaling and Expanding the Use of Registered Apprenticeships in Industries and the Federal Government and Promoting Labor-Management Forums
This executive order establishes a White House interagency working group to expand Registered Apprenticeship programs across federal agencies and their grant/procurement processes, while also revoking a 2017 Trump order to restore Labor-Management Forums for federal employee union collaboration. It requires agencies to review procurement and grants for apprenticeship opportunities, develop workforce plans incorporating apprenticeships, and submit implementation plans for labor-management forums within 180 days.
Continuance of Certain Federal Advisory Committees and Amendments to Other Executive Orders
This executive order extends 37 federal advisory committees until September 30, 2025, delegates presidential FACA functions to agency heads, and amends two prior executive orders—expanding the Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander commission's outreach role and increasing the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities membership from 25 to 30 while adding similar liaison functions.
Advancing Economic Security for Military and Veteran Spouses, Military Caregivers, and Survivors
This executive order directs federal agencies to improve economic security for military-connected families through enhanced federal hiring and retention of military spouses, caregivers, and survivors; expanded telework and remote work options; support for military spouse entrepreneurs; and expanded child care access including flexible spending accounts by January 1, 2024. It requires development of a government-wide strategic plan within 180 days, updates to hiring authorities beginning in Fiscal Year 2025, and various policy changes to reduce employment barriers tied to military life.
Increasing Access to High-Quality Care and Supporting Caregivers
This executive order directs federal agencies to use existing authorities to expand access to affordable, high-quality child care and long-term care, and to improve wages and working conditions for caregivers. It includes specific actions across HHS, Labor, Education, Veterans Affairs, and other agencies to boost compensation, increase training pathways, support family caregivers, and leverage federal infrastructure and workforce funding for care services. Most provisions are framed as considerations, guidance, or encouragement rather than mandates.
Promoting the Arts, the Humanities, and Museum and Library Services
This executive order establishes the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities within the Institute of Museum and Library Services to advise on cultural policy, and directs 25 federal agencies and White House offices to coordinate with the NEA, NEH, and IMLS on arts and humanities initiatives. The Committee is advisory, composed of federal agency heads and up to 25 presidential appointees, and terminates after two years unless extended.
Advancing Equality for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex Individuals
This executive order directs federal agencies to advance equality for LGBTQI+ individuals through a comprehensive set of initiatives addressing healthcare access, education, housing, child welfare, and data collection. It establishes specific deadlines for agencies to develop policies, guidance, and reports aimed at combating discrimination, ending conversion therapy, improving federal benefits access, and strengthening supports for LGBTQI+ youth, older adults, and families.
White House Initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity for Black Americans
This executive order establishes a White House Initiative within the Department of Education to advance educational equity and economic opportunity for Black Americans through interagency coordination, evidence-based policy, and a Presidential Advisory Commission. It revokes a 2012 Obama-era initiative on the same topic, expanding the scope to explicitly include economic opportunity and workforce development alongside K-12 and higher education.
White House Initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity for Native Americans and Strengthening Tribal Colleges and Universities
This executive order establishes a White House Initiative within the Department of Education to advance educational equity, excellence, and economic opportunity for Native American students and strengthen Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs). It creates a new interagency structure co-chaired by the Secretaries of Education, Interior, and Labor, revokes a 2011 Obama-era order on the same topic, and mandates specific deliverables including memoranda of agreement and annual progress reports.
Continuance or Reestablishment of Certain Federal Advisory Committees and Amendments to Other Executive Orders
This executive order extends 33 federal advisory committees until September 30, 2023, transfers FACA oversight responsibilities to agency heads, and amends several prior executive orders—including expanding the National Medal of Science committee from 12 to 14 members, restructuring the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee around cybersecurity and ICT, adding mental health and COVID-19 provisions to the sports and fitness council, and setting term limits for committee chairs.
White House Initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity for Hispanics
This executive order establishes a White House Initiative within the Department of Education and a Presidential Advisory Commission to advance educational equity and economic opportunity for Hispanic and Latino students, families, and communities. It creates a 25-agency interagency working group, requires participating agencies to submit measurable action plans, and sets policy goals spanning early childhood through higher education and workforce development. The order revokes the prior Trump administration's Hispanic Prosperity Initiative (EO 13935).
White House Initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity Through Historically Black Colleges and Universities
This executive order establishes a new White House Initiative within the Department of Education to advance educational equity and economic opportunity for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). It creates a new President's Board of Advisors on HBCUs, mandates annual agency plans from federal agencies on HBCU participation in federal programs, and establishes an interagency working group to coordinate government-wide efforts.
Ensuring a Safe Return to In-Person School for the Nation's Children
This memorandum directs the Secretary of Education to assess available tools—including possible enforcement actions—to ensure state governors and officials do not block local schools from implementing CDC-recommended COVID-19 safety protocols for safe in-person learning. It responds to state policies that the administration views as interfering with school districts' ability to protect students, educators, and staff during the Delta variant surge.
Advancing Equity, Justice, and Opportunity for Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders
This executive order establishes a new President's Advisory Commission and White House Initiative on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders (AA and NHPI) within the Department of Health and Human Services. It creates a whole-of-government framework to advance equity, justice, and opportunity for these communities through interagency coordination, data disaggregation, language access, hate crimes tracking, and annual reporting on measurable progress across federal agencies.
Establishment of the White House Gender Policy Council
This executive order establishes the White House Gender Policy Council within the Executive Office of the President to coordinate federal efforts advancing gender equity and equality across domestic and foreign policy. The Council, led by two presidentially designated Co-Chairs and comprising cabinet members and senior officials from 36 agencies, must develop a government-wide strategy within 200 days and requires agencies to designate senior gender equity coordinators within 30 days. The order also mandates creation of a National Action Plan to End Gender-Based Violence and terminates a prior administration's working group on women's global development.
Guaranteeing an Educational Environment Free From Discrimination on the Basis of Sex, Including Sexual Orientation or Gender Identity
This executive order directs the Department of Education to review and potentially revise Trump-era Title IX regulations that narrowed protections against sex discrimination, explicitly extending protections to include sexual orientation and gender identity. The order requires a 100-day review of agency actions inconsistent with this expanded policy, with particular focus on the May 2020 rule that changed how schools handle sexual harassment allegations.
President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology
This executive order re-establishes the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), an external advisory body of up to 26 members to counsel the President on science, technology, and innovation policy. It replaces a Trump-era version and assigns administrative support to the Department of Energy with a two-year sunset unless extended.
Memorandum To Extend Federal Support to Governors' Use of the National Guard To Respond to COVID-19 and To Increase Reimbursement and Other Assistance Provided to States
This memorandum extends federal support for National Guard COVID-19 response operations through September 30, 2021, with 100% federal reimbursement. It also expands FEMA Public Assistance Category B funding to 100% federal cost share for eligible entities including schools, childcare, healthcare, and transit through the same date, and directs FEMA to expedite reimbursements with advanced payments.
Supporting the Reopening and Continuing Operation of Schools and Early Childhood Education Providers
This executive order directs federal agencies to support safe reopening and continued operation of K-12 schools, early childhood education providers, and higher education institutions during the COVID-19 pandemic. It mandates evidence-based guidance, data collection on disparate impacts, equitable distribution of COVID-19 supplies, and development of strategies to address learning loss and educational inequities exacerbated by the pandemic.
Organizing and Mobilizing the United States Government To Provide a Unified and Effective Response To Combat COVID-19 and To Provide United States Leadership on Global Health and Security
This executive order establishes a White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator and Deputy Coordinator to unify federal pandemic response efforts, including vaccine distribution, testing expansion, PPE production, and school reopening support. It also creates an NSC Directorate on Global Health Security and Biodefense, assigns the APNSA responsibility for national biodefense preparedness, and mandates a 180-day review of biological threats and biopreparedness policies.
Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation
This executive order directs federal agencies to review and revise policies to prevent discrimination based on gender identity or sexual orientation, interpreting existing sex discrimination laws through the Supreme Court's Bostock reasoning. It requires agencies to develop implementation plans within 100 days and apply these protections across Title VII, Title IX, the Fair Housing Act, and other statutes.
Expanding Educational Opportunity Through School Choice
This executive order directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to allow Community Services Block Grant funds to be used for emergency learning scholarships for disadvantaged families whose children lack access to in-person learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. The scholarships can cover private school tuition, homeschooling costs, special education services, and tutoring.
Establishing the President's Advisory 1776 Commission
This executive order creates a 20-member advisory commission to promote patriotic education about America's 1776 founding, requiring a report within one year and prioritizing federal grants toward civics programs. It also directs agencies to monitor Constitution Day compliance in federally funded schools and affirms federal non-interference in local curriculum control.
Continued Student Loan Payment Relief During the COVID-19 Pandemic
This memorandum directs the Secretary of Education to extend temporary student loan payment relief—suspending payments and setting interest rates to 0%—through December 31, 2020, building on earlier COVID-19 relief measures scheduled to expire September 30, 2020. Borrowers may still make voluntary payments during this period.
White House Hispanic Prosperity Initiative
This executive order establishes the White House Hispanic Prosperity Initiative within the Department of Education and creates a 20-member presidential advisory commission to improve Hispanic Americans' access to educational and economic opportunities. The Initiative and Commission are tasked with promoting workforce development, strengthening Hispanic-Serving Institutions, fostering public-private partnerships, and advising the President on policies affecting Hispanic American prosperity.
Building and Rebuilding Monuments to American Heroes
This executive order establishes an Interagency Task Force to create a "National Garden of American Heroes" featuring realistic statues of historically significant Americans, with a target opening before July 4, 2026. It also directs federal agencies to prioritize funding for new monuments and educational programs about American founding ideals, while requiring lifelike rather than abstract artistic representations.
Combating Human Trafficking and Online Child Exploitation in the United States
This executive order establishes combating human trafficking and online child exploitation as an executive branch priority, creating a dedicated Domestic Policy Council position, directing improved prevalence estimates, enhancing interagency coordination for prosecution, and mandating proposals to overcome information-sharing barriers for detecting child sexual abuse material online. It also directs victim protection efforts including housing strategies and prevention education partnerships with schools.
Combating Anti-Semitism
This executive order directs federal agencies enforcing Title VI of the Civil Rights Act to consider the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of anti-Semitism and its contemporary examples when investigating discrimination based on race, color, or national origin. It requires agencies to report within 120 days on additional nondiscrimination authorities where the IHRA definition could apply, while explicitly preserving First Amendment protections and existing evidentiary standards.
President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology
This executive order re-establishes the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), revoking the 2010 Obama-era version. The council will advise the President on science, technology, education, and innovation policy, with up to 16 outside members plus the OSTP Director as chair, and will automatically terminate after 2 years unless extended.
Economic Empowerment of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
This executive order establishes the President's Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders within the Department of Commerce and creates the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders as a federal interagency working group. Both entities are tasked with broadening AAPI access to economic resources and opportunities, including business development, federal procurement, workforce advancement, and trade with the Asia-Pacific region, while also advancing data collection and research on AAPI populations.
America's Cybersecurity Workforce
This executive order establishes programs to grow and strengthen the federal and national cybersecurity workforce through rotational assignments, skills assessments, competitions, and education awards. It mandates adoption of the NICE Framework for cybersecurity skills standards across government contracts and encourages its voluntary use in private-sector and academic training. The order also creates reporting mechanisms and deadlines for multiple agencies to assess workforce gaps and implement workforce development initiatives.
National Physical Fitness and Sports Month, 2019
This proclamation declares May 2019 as National Physical Fitness and Sports Month, encouraging Americans to prioritize physical activity. It also directs the President's Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition to develop a national strategy with HHS to increase youth sports participation, with focus on inclusive access for underserved groups.
Improving Free Inquiry, Transparency, and Accountability at Colleges and Universities
This executive order directs federal agencies to tie higher education grant funding to campus free speech protections and mandates new transparency tools for student borrowers. It requires the Education Department to launch a loan information website by January 1, 2020, expand the College Scorecard with program-level earnings and debt data, and report on risk-sharing options for student loans.
Maintaining American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence
This executive order establishes the American AI Initiative, a coordinated federal strategy to maintain U.S. leadership in artificial intelligence through increased R&D investment, expanded access to federal data and computing resources, workforce development, and protection of AI technologies from foreign acquisition. It directs agencies to prioritize AI in budgeting, issues multiple deadlines for reports and guidance on data access, regulation, standards, and security, and creates governance structures through the National Science and Technology Council Select Committee on AI.
Establishing the White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council
This executive order establishes the White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council, chaired by the Secretary of HUD, to coordinate across federal agencies to promote investment in economically distressed communities and qualified opportunity zones created by the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. The Council is tasked with assessing agency actions, streamlining regulations, and producing multiple reports with recommendations for statutory and regulatory changes.
Delegation of Authorities Under the Reinforcing Education Accountability in Development Act
This memorandum delegates presidential authorities under the READ Act to the Secretary of State (sections 4, 6, and 7) and the USAID Administrator (section 5(c)). The delegations are forward-looking, applying to similar future provisions, and permit redelegation as authorized by law.
Establishing the President's National Council for the American Worker
This executive order creates the President's National Council for the American Worker, co-chaired by the Secretaries of Commerce and Labor, the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, and an economic advisor, to develop a national workforce development strategy. It also establishes a 25-member private-sector American Workforce Policy Advisory Board to advise the Council, with both bodies tasked to address skills gaps, promote apprenticeships, and align education with emerging technologies like artificial intelligence.
Federal Interagency Council on Crime Prevention and Improving Reentry
This executive order establishes a Federal Interagency Council on Crime Prevention and Improving Reentry, co-chaired by the Attorney General, the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, and a White House innovation advisor. The Council is tasked with developing evidence-based recommendations to reduce crime, lower recidivism, and improve reentry outcomes through coordination across 11 federal agencies, with initial and full reports due within 90 days and one year respectively. The order revokes a 2016 Obama memorandum on reintegration of formerly incarcerated individuals and automatically terminates after three years.
President's Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition
This executive order revokes a 2010 Obama-era council and reestablishes the President's Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition, directing the Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop a national strategy to expand youth sports participation, encourage physical activity, and promote nutrition—particularly in underserved communities.
Streamlining and Expediting Requests To Locate Broadband Facilities in Rural America
This executive order directs federal agencies to accelerate rural broadband deployment by streamlining the process for installing wireless broadband facilities on federal property. It mandates use of a standardized GSA Common Form Application for siting requests, requires agencies to report quarterly on application processing, and sets deadlines for evaluating and improving the application system.
Increasing Access to High-Quality Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Education
This memorandum directs the Secretary of Education to prioritize STEM education, particularly Computer Science, by establishing it as a Department priority for grant awards starting in fiscal year 2018, setting a goal of $200 million annually in STEM-focused grant funds, exploring administrative actions to expand Computer Science programs, and requiring annual reports to OMB. It highlights significant gaps in access to Computer Science education, especially for minorities, rural students, and girls.
Expanding Apprenticeships in America
This executive order promotes apprenticeships as an alternative to traditional higher education by establishing industry-recognized apprenticeship programs, creating a federal task force, and requiring agencies to evaluate and potentially eliminate ineffective workforce development programs. It directs multiple cabinet departments to expand apprenticeship access for students, veterans, formerly incarcerated individuals, and workers in critical sectors like manufacturing and cybersecurity.
Enforcing Statutory Prohibitions on Federal Control of Education
This executive order directs the Secretary of Education to review all Department of Education regulations and guidance documents related to statutes that prohibit federal control over education. The Secretary must identify and rescind or revise any that improperly direct, supervise, or control state and local decisions on curriculum, school administration, personnel, and instructional materials, with proposed actions due within 300 days.
Promoting Agriculture and Rural Prosperity in America
This executive order establishes an Interagency Task Force on Agriculture and Rural Prosperity, chaired by the Secretary of Agriculture with 21+ agency heads as members. The Task Force must identify and recommend legislative, regulatory, and policy changes to promote agriculture, economic development, and quality of life in rural America, submitting a report within 180 days. It also revokes the Obama-era White House Rural Council (EO 13575).
White House Initiative To Promote Excellence and Innovation at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
This executive order establishes a White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) housed in the Executive Office of the President, along with a President's Board of Advisors on HBCUs in the Department of Education. It requires federal agencies interacting with HBCUs to prepare annual plans for strengthening HBCU participation in federal programs and revokes the previous Obama-era executive order on the same topic.
Continuing To Expand Opportunity for All Young People
This memorandum amends a 2014 Obama-era initiative by renaming the 'My Brother's Keeper' program to the 'Task Force on Improving the Lives of Boys and Young Men of Color and Underserved Youth,' expanding its membership to include 23 specified agency heads and officials, adding reporting requirements including annual status reports and biennial reviews, and broadening the scope to explicitly include 'underserved youth' alongside boys and young men of color.
Providing for the Appointment of Alumni of the Fulbright U.S. Student Program, the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program, and the Critical Language Scholarship Program to the Competitive Service
This executive order grants Non-Competitive Eligibility (NCE) for federal competitive service appointments to alumni of three State Department international exchange programs—Fulbright U.S. Student Program, Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program, and Critical Language Scholarship Program—who are certified by the Secretary of State and pass OPM examinations. Appointments must generally occur within one year of program completion, with possible extensions up to three years for military service, higher education, or other approved activities.
Establishing a Community Solutions Council
This executive order establishes a new Community Solutions Council to coordinate federal community investment programs across agencies, replacing two prior Obama-era councils. The Council is led by two Co-Chairs (one from the White House/OMB, one rotating among eight major agencies every four years) and includes 34+ members spanning nearly the entire Cabinet and key White House offices. It builds on existing place-based initiatives like Promise Zones and StrikeForce, with a mandate to foster interagency collaboration, scale evidence-based practices, and center locally led visions in federal policymaking.
Using Behavioral Science Insights To Better Serve the American People
This executive order directs federal agencies to incorporate behavioral science insights—such as automatic enrollment, simplified forms, and improved information presentation—into policy design to improve program outcomes and cost-effectiveness. It establishes the Social and Behavioral Sciences Team (SBST) under the National Science and Technology Council to provide guidance and requires annual implementation reports through 2019.
Amendment to Executive Order 11155, Awards for Special Capability in Career and Technical Education
This executive order amends a 1964 order to allow the Presidential Scholars Commission to select up to 20 additional Presidential Scholars each year specifically for outstanding achievement in career and technical education fields. It expands the existing Presidential Scholars program beyond traditional academic and arts categories to recognize technical education excellence.
Student Aid Bill of Rights To Help Ensure Affordable Loan Repayment
This memorandum directs multiple federal agencies to implement stronger consumer protections for the more than 40 million Americans with student loan debt. It establishes deadlines for creating a complaint system, improving loan servicing standards, protecting distressed borrowers including those with disabilities, and exploring regulatory changes to bankruptcy and consumer protection laws.
Helping Struggling Federal Student Loan Borrowers Manage Their Debt
This memorandum directs the Secretaries of Education and Treasury to expand income-driven student loan repayment options, improve borrower outreach and communication strategies, develop public-private partnerships for tax-season education, and pilot enhanced loan counseling tools. It aims to make Pay As You Earn available to more Federal Direct Loan borrowers by December 2015 and targets struggling borrowers including dropouts, first-time defaulters, and those with low balances.
Creating and Expanding Ladders of Opportunity for Boys and Young Men of Color
President Obama established the My Brother's Keeper Task Force, an interagency initiative chaired by the Assistant to the President and Cabinet Secretary with the Deputy Secretary of Education as Executive Director, to improve life outcomes for boys and young men of color through better coordination of federal programs, data sharing, and public-private partnerships. The Task Force is directed to create assessment tools, evaluate federal policy impacts, and report back with recommendations within 90 days and a status report within one year.
Job-Driven Training for Workers
This memorandum directs the Secretaries of Labor, Commerce, and Education to develop within 180 days an action plan to reform federal workforce and training programs to be more "job-driven," emphasizing employer engagement, skills matching, accountability for employment outcomes, and better alignment across education and training systems. The Vice President is tasked with leading a government-wide review of relevant federal programs.
Establishing a White House Task Force To Protect Students From Sexual Assault
President Obama established a White House Task Force co-chaired by the Office of the Vice President and the White House Council on Women and Girls to coordinate federal efforts addressing campus sexual assault. The Task Force must develop recommendations within 90 days and provide annual implementation reports, focusing on improving institutional compliance, transparency, and evidence-based prevention practices at colleges and universities receiving federal financial aid.
Continuance Of Certain Federal Advisory Committees
This executive order extends 26 federal advisory committees until September 30, 2015, and makes technical amendments to several prior executive orders governing the National Infrastructure Advisory Council, President's Management Advisory Board, President's Global Development Council, and President's Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. It also delegates presidential functions under the Federal Advisory Committee Act to designated agency heads.
Expanding National Service Through Partnerships to Advance Government Priorities
This memorandum establishes an interagency Task Force on Expanding National Service, co-chaired by the CEO of the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) and the Director of the Domestic Policy Council. It directs federal agencies to develop partnerships with CNCS to expand national service and volunteer opportunities aligned with the six focus areas of the Serve America Act, and requires specific reports and guidance within set timeframes.
Establishing the President's Advisory Council on Financial Capability for Young Americans
This executive order creates a presidential advisory council within the Treasury Department focused on improving financial literacy and money management skills among young Americans. The council will bring together government officials and private-sector experts to develop strategies for financial education in schools, communities, and workplaces, with a two-year mandate.
Reestablishment of Advisory Commission
This executive order reestablishes the President's Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanics, which had been set to expire, extending its operation through September 30, 2013. The same members serving on October 19, 2012, are reappointed to continue their work.
Preventing and Responding to Violence Against Women and Girls Globally
This executive order establishes a multi-year U.S. government strategy to prevent and respond to gender-based violence globally, creating an Interagency Working Group co-chaired by the Secretary of State and USAID Administrator. It mandates coordination across multiple federal agencies, integration of anti-violence programming into existing foreign policy and assistance efforts, improved data collection and research, and periodic reporting with benchmarks, progress reports, and eventual strategy revision.
White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans
This executive order establishes the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans within the Department of Education, along with a Federal Interagency Working Group and a President's Advisory Commission. The Initiative aims to improve educational outcomes for African Americans across all education levels through coordination of federal programs, identification of best practices, and partnerships with stakeholders.
Improving Repayment Options for Federal Student Loan Borrowers
This memorandum directs the Secretaries of Education and Treasury to streamline the Income-Based Repayment (IBR) application process for federal student loans by creating an online system that imports IRS income data directly, develop integrated online and mobile resources to educate borrowers about repayment options, and improve notifications about IBR availability to borrowers before and after leaving school.
Establishing Principles of Excellence for Educational Institutions Serving Service Members, Veterans, Spouses, and Other Family Members
This executive order creates consumer protections for military members, veterans, and their families using federal education benefits like the Post-9/11 GI Bill and Tuition Assistance Program. It establishes 'Principles of Excellence' requiring schools receiving these funds to provide clear cost information, end deceptive recruiting, ensure academic support, and strengthen complaint and enforcement systems across the Departments of Defense, Veterans Affairs, and Education.
Improving American Indian and Alaska Native Educational Opportunities and Strengthening Tribal Colleges and Universities
This executive order establishes the White House Initiative on American Indian and Alaska Native Education, co-chaired by the Secretaries of Education and Interior, to improve educational outcomes for AI/AN students across all educational settings. It mandates interagency coordination, requires a Memorandum of Understanding between Education and Interior within 120 days, and directs federal agencies to develop four-year implementation plans with annual performance reporting.
Continuance of Certain Federal Advisory Committees
This executive order extends the lifespan of seven federal advisory committees until September 30, 2013, one committee until September 30, 2012, and amends the termination date of the President's Advisory Council on Financial Capability to January 29, 2013. It also delegates FACA compliance functions to agency heads rather than the President.
Establishment of the White House Rural Council
This executive order creates the White House Rural Council, chaired by the Secretary of Agriculture and comprising 25 federal agencies, to coordinate federal policy and investment in rural communities. The Council is tasked with streamlining federal spending, improving economic opportunities, and enhancing quality of life in rural America through better interagency collaboration.
Amendments to Executive Orders 12824, 12835, 12859, and 13532, Reestablishment Pursuant to Executive Order 13498, and Revocation of Executive Order 13507
This executive order makes several technical amendments to prior executive orders: expanding eligibility for the Transportation Distinguished Service Medal to all Armed Forces members; replacing the Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change with the Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality on the National Economic Council and Domestic Policy Council; correcting a CFR citation in the HBCU executive order; reestablishing the President's Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships for two years; and revoking the White House Office of Health Reform.
Enhanced Collection of Relevant Data and Statistics Relating to Women
This March 4, 2011 memorandum directs federal agencies to identify and fill gaps in data collection about women across areas including families and income, health, employment, education, and violence and crime. It specifically encourages the National Center for Health Statistics to expedite adoption of improved maternal mortality data standards, the SEC Chair to collect information on women in corporate governance positions, and the Corporation for National and Community Service to include women's public service statistics in civic engagement measurement.
Recruiting and Hiring Students and Recent Graduates
This executive order establishes the Pathways Programs to help federal agencies recruit and hire students and recent graduates by creating exceptions to competitive hiring rules. It creates three programs—Internship, Recent Graduates, and Presidential Management Fellows—under a new Schedule D excepted service category, while revoking several predecessor programs.
White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics
This executive order establishes the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics within the Department of Education, along with a Federal Interagency Working Group and a 30-member Presidential Advisory Commission. It creates a coordinated federal structure to expand educational opportunities and improve outcomes for Hispanic students from early childhood through higher education and adult learning, with specific objectives including increasing kindergarten readiness, reducing dropout rates, improving college completion, and strengthening Hispanic-Serving Institutions.
Establishing a Task Force on Skills for America's Future
This memorandum establishes an interagency Task Force on Skills for America's Future, co-chaired by the Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers and two White House policy assistants, to develop recommendations for improving workforce training partnerships between community colleges, businesses, labor unions, and other stakeholders. The Task Force is charged with identifying scalable approaches to career training, stackable credentials, and public-private partnerships, but has no dedicated funding or enforcement authority beyond voluntary agency coordination.
President's Council on Fitness, Sports, and Nutrition
This executive order renames and reauthorizes the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports as the President's Council on Fitness, Sports, and Nutrition, adding nutrition to its mission. It establishes a 25-member advisory council to promote physical activity, fitness, sports participation, and good nutrition nationwide, with emphasis on children, adolescents, and underserved communities. The council is set to terminate after 2 years unless extended by the President.
A 21st Century Strategy for America's Great Outdoors
This memorandum establishes the America's Great Outdoors Initiative, led by Interior, Agriculture, EPA, and CEQ, to reconnect Americans—especially children—with nature through community-based conservation, public-private partnerships, and interagency coordination. It mandates listening sessions across the country and requires three reports: an initial strategy report by November 15, 2010, and annual progress reports by September 30, 2011 and 2012.
Promoting Excellence, Innovation, and Sustainability at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
This executive order establishes the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities within the Department of Education, along with a President's Board of Advisors, to strengthen HBCU capacity, increase their participation in federal programs, and advance the national goal of having the highest proportion of college graduates by 2020. It requires designated federal agencies to prepare annual plans with measurable objectives for HBCU engagement and appoint senior officials to coordinate these efforts.
Establishing a Task Force on Childhood Obesity
This memorandum establishes a Task Force on Childhood Obesity chaired by the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, with membership from multiple Cabinet secretaries and agency heads. The Task Force is directed to develop and submit within 90 days a comprehensive interagency action plan to solve childhood obesity within a generation, though its functions are explicitly advisory only.
President's Advisory Council on Financial Capability
Executive Order 13530 establishes a 22-member advisory council within the Department of the Treasury to promote financial literacy and access to financial services among Americans, with particular attention to underserved populations. The council is tasked with collecting information, advising the President and Treasury Secretary, and reporting periodically on financial capability in the United States. Unless extended by the President, the council automatically terminates two years after establishment.
Amendments to Executive Orders 13183 and 13494
This executive order makes two changes: it expands the mission of the Presidential Task Force on Puerto Rico's Status to include promoting job creation, education, health care, clean energy, and economic development on the islands, and requires a report within one year; and it amends an earlier Obama EO to clarify that contractor costs for labor-management relations (excluding union organizing activities) are allowable costs in federal contracts.
Increasing Participation of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in Federal Programs
This executive order establishes a President's Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) housed in the Department of Education and a White House Initiative on AAPIs co-chaired by the Secretaries of Commerce and Education. The order directs federal agencies to develop plans to improve AAPI access to federal programs, increase AAPI federal workforce participation, and advance data collection and research on AAPI subpopulations.
Establishing a White House Council on Women And Girls
This executive order creates a White House Council on Women and Girls to coordinate federal policy across agencies on issues affecting women and girls, including pay equity, healthcare access, educational opportunity, and workforce participation. The Council is advisory, composed of Cabinet secretaries and senior officials, and must submit an interagency plan within 150 days.
Further Amendments to Executive Order 12835, Establishment of the National Economic Council
This executive order expands membership of the National Economic Council by adding the Secretaries of Health and Human Services and Education, the Senior Advisor for Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Liaison, the Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change, the Chief Technology Officer, and the Administrator of the Small Business Administration. It is a minor administrative restructuring with no policy directives or operational changes beyond council composition.
White House Task Force on Middle-Class Working Families
President Obama established a White House Task Force on Middle-Class Working Families, chaired by Vice President Biden, to recommend policies on education, work-family balance, labor standards, income protection, and retirement security. The Task Force includes cabinet secretaries and senior White House economic advisors, with annual public reports required starting one year from signing.
Improving the Coordination and Effectiveness of Youth Programs
This executive order creates an Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs within HHS to coordinate federal youth programs, mandates development of a new federal youth website within 10 months, and requires annual reporting to the President. It continues the "Helping America's Youth" initiative through structured interagency collaboration without creating new legal rights or spending authority.
Establishing the President's Advisory Council on Financial Literacy
This executive order creates a 19-member President's Advisory Council on Financial Literacy within the Department of the Treasury to advise the President on improving financial education, access to financial services, and coordination of public-private financial literacy programs. The Council is tasked with gathering information from diverse stakeholders and periodically reporting on national financial literacy status and recommendations. It will automatically terminate two years after establishment unless extended by the President.
Continuance of Certain Federal Advisory Committees and Amendments to and Revocation of Other Executive Orders
This executive order continues 16 federal advisory committees until September 30, 2009, revokes the tax reform advisory panel (EO 13369), supersedes parts of EO 13385, and substantially amends EO 12994 to expand and rename the President's Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities with new membership requirements and advisory functions.
Strengthening Adult Education
This executive order creates an Interagency Adult Education Working Group led by the Secretary of Education to coordinate federal adult education programs, identify gaps and duplications, and recommend improvements to help adults transition to postsecondary education and employment. The Working Group includes multiple cabinet secretaries and must submit its first report within 9 months.
Establishing a Commission on Care for America's Returning Wounded Warriors and a Task Force on Returning Global War on Terror Heroes
This executive order establishes a presidential commission and an interagency task force to review and improve care for wounded service members returning from the Global War on Terror. The Commission has a mandate to examine transitions, health care, benefits, and services, with a final report due by June 30, 2007. The Task Force, led by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, must submit a government-wide action plan within 45 days.
Task Force on New Americans
This executive order establishes a Task Force on New Americans within the Department of Homeland Security to coordinate federal efforts helping legal immigrants learn English, civics, and history to integrate into American society. The Task Force includes cabinet-level officials from multiple departments and is directed to promote public-private partnerships, expand instruction through community groups, and make recommendations on policy and legislative changes.
National Mathematics Advisory Panel
This executive order establishes a National Mathematics Advisory Panel within the Department of Education to advise the President and Secretary of Education on improving mathematics education. The panel of up to 30 members must submit a preliminary report by January 31, 2007 and a final report by February 28, 2008, covering topics from algebra readiness to teacher training, before the panel automatically terminates on April 18, 2008.
American Indian and Alaska Native Education
This executive order establishes an interagency working group to improve American Indian and Alaska Native student achievement under the No Child Left Behind Act while respecting tribal cultures and sovereignty. It mandates a multi-year study of Native education, requires a federal interagency plan within 90 days, and convenes a forum on education strategies, with the working group terminating after 5 years unless extended.
National and Community Service Programs
This executive order directs the Corporation for National and Community Service to review and reform its policies to promote volunteering, state/local flexibility, faith-based organization involvement, and improved fiscal accountability. It mandates management reforms and requires a report within 180 days on proposed implementation actions.
Continuance of Certain Federal Advisory Committees
This executive order extends the lifespan of 14 federal advisory committees until September 30, 2005, revokes executive orders for 9 committees that have terminated or completed their work, delegates FACA functions to agency heads, updates membership of the President's Export Council, and supersedes Executive Order 13225.
President's Council on Service and Civic Participation
This executive order establishes the President's Council on Service and Civic Participation within the Corporation for National and Community Services to encourage volunteer service and civic participation, particularly among youth. The Council of up to 25 members will design recognition programs, advise on dissemination of best practices, and make recommendations to the President through the USA Freedom Corps Director.
Tribal Colleges and Universities
This executive order establishes the President's Board of Advisors on Tribal Colleges and Universities and the White House Initiative on Tribal Colleges and Universities (WHITCU) within the Department of Education to strengthen federal support for tribal colleges. It requires federal agencies to develop three-year plans with measurable objectives for assisting tribal colleges, and revokes the previous EO 13021 from 1996.
President's Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and Universities
This executive order establishes a presidential advisory board and White House Initiative within the Department of Education to strengthen historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) by improving their access to federal programs, increasing private sector partnerships, and requiring federal agencies to develop annual plans with measurable goals for HBCU participation in grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements.
Amendment to Executive Order 13227, President's Commission on Excellence in Special Education
This executive order extends the deadline for the President's Commission on Excellence in Special Education to submit its report from April 30, 2002 to July 1, 2002. It makes no other changes to the commission's mandate or structure.
President's Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans
This executive order establishes a 25-member presidential advisory commission and a White House Initiative within the Department of Education to improve educational outcomes for Hispanic Americans. It mandates reports on closing the achievement gap under the No Child Left Behind framework and revokes the previous Clinton-era executive order on the same topic.
President's Commission on Excellence in Special Education
This executive order establishes a 19-member presidential commission to study and recommend improvements to federal, state, and local special education programs under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). The commission must submit a comprehensive report by April 30, 2002, analyzing special education effectiveness, costs, funding formulas, and accountability systems, then terminate 30 days later unless extended by the President.
Continuance of Certain Federal Advisory Committees
This executive order extends 14 federal advisory committees until September 30, 2003, delegates FACA oversight functions to agency heads, revokes five executive orders for completed/terminated committees, and supersedes sections of Executive Order 13138.
21st Century Workforce Initiative
This executive order establishes the Office of the 21st Century Workforce within the Department of Labor and a 13-member presidential advisory council to study workforce challenges including technological change, globalization, and skills gaps. The Council is tasked with assessing workforce trends and recommending policy changes, but terminates automatically after two years unless extended by the President. The order also amends a prior Clinton-era training technology advisory committee and revokes another Clinton commission on economic change.
President's Commission on Educational Resource Equity
President Clinton established a 13-member advisory commission to study gaps in educational resources, particularly those affecting disadvantaged students and low-income schools. The commission must submit a report to the President and Congress by August 31, 2001, analyzing resource disparities and recommending solutions, after which it terminates within 30 days.
Amendment to Executive Order 13111, Extension of the Advisory Committee on Expanding Training Opportunities
This executive order extends the lifespan of the Advisory Committee on Expanding Training Opportunities by amending its original 1999 charter. The committee, established under EO 13111, will now terminate on January 11, 2003 instead of two years from the original order's signing date.
To Strengthen the Federal Government-University Research Partnership
This executive order establishes guiding and operating principles for the federal government's research partnership with universities, drawn from a 1999 National Science and Technology Council report. It directs OSTP to conduct regular reviews of the partnership's health and report to the President with improvement recommendations. The order explicitly disclaims creating any enforceable legal rights.
Amendment to Executive Order 13078, To Expand the Role of the National Task Force on Employment of Adults With Disabilities To Include a Focus on Youth
This executive order expands the National Task Force on Employment of Adults With Disabilities to also address youth with disabilities. It directs federal agencies to coordinate on six specific activities including research, public awareness, collaboration with Youth Councils, health care access, postsecondary education, and creation of a Youth Advisory Council chaired by the Department of Labor.
Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Race, Sex, Color, National Origin, Disability, Religion, Age, Sexual Orientation, and Status as a Parent in Federally Conducted Education and Training Programs
This executive order prohibits discrimination based on race, sex, color, national origin, disability, religion, age, sexual orientation, and parental status in all federally conducted education and training programs. It requires executive agencies to establish complaint procedures, mandates Attorney General-issued implementing regulations, and establishes annual then triennial reporting requirements on complaints and their disposition.
Actions To Improve Low-Performing Schools
This executive order directs the Secretary of Education to develop a comprehensive strategy for providing technical assistance to states and local school districts to improve low-performing schools, including sharing best practices, coordinating federal education resources, and recruiting qualified teachers for high-poverty schools. It also requires an annual School Improvement Report beginning September 2000 and strengthens compliance monitoring of Elementary and Secondary Education Act requirements related to school improvement.
Continuance of Certain Federal Advisory Committees
This executive order extends 16 federal advisory committees until September 30, 2001, revokes several executive orders for completed committees, and makes technical amendments to existing orders including adding the Department of Energy to the President's Export Council, expanding an interagency Coast Guard task force, and updating the structure of committees on arts/humanities and physical fitness.
Increasing Participation of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in Federal Programs
This executive order establishes the President's Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders within HHS, creates a White House Initiative interagency working group, and requires federal agencies to develop plans to increase AAPI participation in federal programs where they may be underserved. The Commission will advise the President on federal efforts, data collection, and community involvement, while agencies must submit measurable plans with annual performance assessments.
Amendment to Executive Order 13021, Tribal Colleges and Universities
This executive order extends the President's Board of Advisors on Tribal Colleges and Universities by amending Executive Order 13021. The Board's termination date is changed to September 30, 1999, with automatic expiration unless renewed by the President before that date.
American Indian and Alaska Native Education
This executive order establishes an Interagency Task Force on American Indian and Alaska Native Education to coordinate federal efforts across 14+ agencies to improve educational outcomes for Native students. It mandates development of a comprehensive federal Indian education policy, regional partnership forums, school pilot sites, and a research agenda, with multiple reporting deadlines over a 5-year task force lifespan.
President's Commission on the Celebration of Women in American History
This executive order establishes a presidential commission of up to 11 members to recommend ways to celebrate women's roles in American history, including potential for a women's history focal point in Washington, D.C. and technology connections between history sites. The commission must submit its final report by March 1, 1999, and terminates 60 days thereafter.
White House Millennium Council
This executive order establishes the White House Millennium Council, a coordinating body of federal agency representatives to lead national and local educational celebrations commemorating the year 2000 millennium. The Council is tasked with planning events, producing educational materials, encouraging community participation, and making recommendations for historic preservation funding through the Save America's Treasures program.
Continuance of Certain Federal Advisory Committees and Amendments to Executive Orders 13038 and 13054
This executive order continues 15 federal advisory committees until September 30, 1999; revokes five executive orders for terminated committees; supersedes Executive Order 12974; and amends two other executive orders—expanding the President's Council on Sustainable Development from 15 to 22 members (EO 13038) and allowing noncompetitive federal employment for family members of civilian employees who transferred to the American Institute in Taiwan (EO 13054).
President's Advisory Board on Race
This executive order establishes a 7-member President's Advisory Board on Race to advise the President on racial reconciliation, national dialogue on race, and solutions to race-related problems in areas including education, economic opportunity, housing, health care, and criminal justice. The board is administratively supported by the Department of Justice and is set to terminate on September 30, 1998 unless extended by the President.
Tribal Colleges and Universities
This executive order establishes a White House Initiative and Presidential advisory board within the Department of Education to improve federal support for tribal colleges and universities. It requires federal agencies to develop five-year plans with measurable goals for funding and technical assistance to tribal colleges, and creates a structure for ongoing coordination between tribal colleges, federal agencies, and the private sector.
Educational Technology: Ensuring Opportunity for All Children in the Next Century
This executive order streamlines the donation of surplus federal computer equipment to schools and nonprofit educational organizations, with priority given to disadvantaged communities. It also encourages federal employees with technical expertise to volunteer time assisting teachers with technology integration and classroom connectivity.
Continuance of Certain Federal Advisory Committees
This executive order extends the lifespan of 15 federal advisory committees until September 30, 1997, delegates FACA oversight functions to agency heads, revokes three completed/expired committee authorizations, and supersedes a prior executive order.
Transfer of Functions of the ACTION Agency to the Corporation for National and Community Service
This proclamation transfers all functions of the Director of the ACTION Agency to the newly created Corporation for National and Community Service, effective immediately on April 4, 1994. The merger accelerates a consolidation required by the 1993 National and Community Service Trust Act, which had set a statutory deadline of March 22, 1995 for completing the merger.
Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans
This executive order establishes the President's Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans and a White House Initiative within the Department of Education to improve Hispanic American participation in and outcomes from federal education programs. It requires annual federal plans with measurable objectives, agency-specific plans to reduce barriers and improve outreach, and creates an interagency working group to coordinate efforts across executive departments.
White House Conference for a Drug Free America
This executive order establishes the White House Conference for a Drug Free America, a temporary body within the Executive Office of the President to convene public and private stakeholders to examine drug abuse issues and develop national strategy recommendations. The Conference is tasked with reviewing law enforcement effectiveness, education impacts, program coordination, international trafficking laws, youth drug use initiation, and drug-free workplace approaches, then submitting a final report to the President and Congress. Following submission, the President must report annually to Congress for three years on implementation status.
Facilitating access to science and technology
This executive order directs federal agencies to accelerate technology transfer from government laboratories to universities and private industry, particularly small businesses. It establishes cooperative research agreements, royalty-sharing for inventors, a Technology Share Program for consortia, scientist exchange programs, and international technology cooperation guidelines, while requiring reports on progress within one year.
Delegation concerning the United States-India Fund for Cultural, Educational, and Scientific Cooperation
This executive order delegates presidential authority over the United States-India Fund for Cultural, Educational, and Scientific Cooperation to the Secretary of State, and allocates Indian rupees provided to the President to the Secretary of the Treasury for investment to generate earnings for the Fund's purposes.
Physical fitness and sports
This executive order establishes a national program for physical fitness and sports under the Secretary of Health and Human Services and continues the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports as an advisory body. The order directs federal coordination, public education, research promotion, and partnerships with state/local governments, schools, medical professionals, and employers to encourage physical activity across all age groups.
Historically Black Colleges and Universities
This executive order establishes a permanent federal program to increase participation by Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in federally sponsored programs. It requires annual planning, reporting, and review mechanisms across executive agencies, revokes the previous Carter-era EO 12232, and sets specific deadlines for initial implementation in 1981-1982.