# 2025-05213: President Aims to Shut Down Department of Education for Local Control

2025-05213, Improving Education Outcomes by Empowering Parents, States, and Communities, is a Federal Register presidential document from Executive Office of the President published 2025-03-25, effective 2025-03-20; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-11-04).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-05213
- As of: 2026-11-04
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-05213
- Title: Improving Education Outcomes by Empowering Parents, States, and Communities
- Type: Presidential Document
- Agencies: Executive Office of the President
- Citation: 90 FR 13679
- Published: 2025-03-25
- Effective: 2025-03-20
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: yes
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-11-04

## In one line

President Aims to Shut Down Department of Education for Local Control

## Summary

The President wants to shut down the Department of Education to give parents, states, and communities more control over schools. This change aims to fix low student scores and improve how student loans are handled, affecting millions of families and students. The plan signals big shifts in education funding and management starting soon, with hopes to make schools work better for everyone.

## Effects PRIA read

- Close Department of Education; Return to States: mixed, high. The President ordered the Secretary of Education to take all appropriate steps to facilitate closure of the Department of Education and return authority over education to the States, in Executive Order 14242 dated March 20, 2025. The order requires the Secretary to do this while ensuring the effect…
- Student Loan Functions Reassigned or Returned: mixed, high. The order states the Department of Education currently manages a Federal student loan portfolio of more than $1.6 trillion and that the Office of Federal Student Aid has fewer than 1,500 employees. It directs returning ‘‘bank functions’’ to an entity equipped to serve students and to improve progra…
- Federal Funds Must End Certain DEI and 'Gender Ideology' Programs: cost, medium. The Secretary must ensure that allocation of Department of Education funds complies with Federal law and Administration policy, including a requirement that any program or activity receiving Federal assistance terminate illegal discrimination 'obscured under the label "diversity, equity, and inclus…

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## Sources
- [2025-05213 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/03/25/2025-05213/improving-education-outcomes-by-empowering-parents-states-and-communities)
- [2025-05213 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-03-25/pdf/2025-05213.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-05213 (as of 2026-11-04).