Ed Secretary Sets New Priorities for School Choice Funding
Published Date: 5/21/2025
Proposed Rule
Summary
The Secretary is updating key priorities for education grants to focus on evidence-based literacy, school choice, and giving more control back to states. These changes affect current and future grant programs, replacing older rules by early 2025. Schools, educators, and states should watch for new grant opportunities and deadlines tied to these fresh priorities.
Analyzed Economic Effects
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New Grant Focus: Literacy, Choice, States
The Secretary proposes three priorities for discretionary education grants: evidence-based literacy, education (school) choice, and returning education control to states. These priorities may be used in currently authorized discretionary grant programs or in programs authorized in the future, and the Department may apply an entire priority or only parts of it in a grant competition.
Replacement of Older Supplemental Priorities
The proposed priorities are intended to replace the Secretary's supplemental priorities published December 10, 2021 and all other agency-wide supplemental priorities published before January 20, 2025. However, those earlier priorities remain in effect for any Notices Inviting Applications (NIAs) that are published before the Department finalizes these proposed priorities.
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