President Trump is giving Education Secretary Betsy DeVos 300 days to look over previous administrations' actions in search of government overreach in K-12 education. Trump signed an executive order Wednesday that, according to Rob Goad, a senior Department of Education official, strikes down "top-down mandates that take away autonomy and limit the options available to educators, administrators, and parents." It is unclear, however, whether an executive order would in any way expand the limits of DeVos' authority. “Rather than another executive order, perhaps the president and DeVos need to read the bipartisan Every Student Succeeds Act," Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, said in a statement. Goad said the executive order "empowers [DeVos] to modify anything that is inconsistent with federal law."

Source: Los Angeles Times April 26, 2017 17:37 UTC