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With Sweeping Orders, Trump Aims To Control Race Teaching, Boost School Choice

President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office at the White House on Jan. 23. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)

President Donald Trump signed a trio of executive orders on education Wednesday seeking to control how schools teach about race and gender, direct more tax dollars to private schools, and deport pro-Palestinian protesters.

The flurry of action aims to make good on a raft of Trump’s campaign promises but also tests the limits of presidential power. In each case, Trump is pushing to use the levers of government — sometimes in unprecedented ways — to force American school districts, colleges and students to align with his point of view.

Supporters welcomed the moves as a healthy counter to schools that they allege have been indoctrinating young people with liberal ideas. Opponents responded by charging Trump with indoctrination in the opposite direction, and some predicted legal challenges.

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