Teachers unions are one of the main driving forces behind woke education policy.
From DEI to gender ideology, the unions have their hands in all of it.
And teachers union bosses are livid at this Trump executive order.
Trump ends Biden’s transgender policy
Donald Trump kicked off his first day in office with a long list of executive orders.
He issued orders on the border, energy policy, and education.
He undid many Biden policies with the stroke of a pen.
Many of his orders certainly ruffled some Democrat feathers.
One of those orders ended Biden’s transgender policy in education.
Trump’s order will state that there are only two genders and will bar schools that receive federal funding from expanding anti-discrimination policies to include sexual orientation or gender identity.
The order is expected to help stop biological men from competing in women’s sports.
The heads of the nation’s two largest teachers unions blasted Trump over the orders.
Becky Pringle, President of the National Education Association made the accusation that Trump was trying “to divide us and ignoring what we know is needed to ensure every student has the opportunity and resources to grow into their full brilliance.”
Likewise, Randi Weingarten, President of the American Federation of Teachers attacked Trump’s order.
“Rather than unifying people and building on America’s best qualities, Trump delivered a speech that was laden with divisiveness, showing that he is the president of only some Americans,” she said.
Many of Trump’s education policies are expected to be opposed by teachers unions.
In addition to pushing their woke agenda in the classroom, teachers unions fight against school choice initiatives, that would empower parents to get their kids out of failing government schools.
For Trump and his supporters, the order is “promises made, promises kept.”
Jeanne Allen, a senior Education Department official during the Reagan administration, applauded the order.
“He said he was going to do it, he did it, and those are important signals for people,” she said. “We’re hoping that he will very soon also require that federal funding not discriminate against the choices of parents who want to send their children somewhere other than their local public schools.”
Sheri Few, President of U.S. Parents Involved in Education, likewise applauded the move.
“It reestablishes the importance of biology and protects parental rights,” she said. “This decision is a push-back against excessive federal overreach and ensures that schools are free from government-imposed ideologies.”
In announcing the order, Trump said, “As of today, it will henceforth be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders, male and female.”
Trump’s executive order is a major step in the right direction, but in order to get all of his education priorities achieved, Trump will have to work with Congress.
Michael Hansen, a senior fellow at the left-leaning Brookings Institution’s Brown Center on Education Policy, predicts Trump will be limited in what he can accomplish on the education front.
“Realistically, I think the federal education policies most likely to get passed are those that could be packaged into a tax bill only to be passed through the reconciliation process, which significantly narrows the scope for any proposed actions that would need congressional approval,” he said.
But Trump has already shown that he is willing to go toe-to-toe with the teachers unions, who are always the biggest obstacles in the way of accomplishing education reform.
