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The President issued a formal proclamation declaring the week of April 20 to April 26, 2025, as National Volunteer Week. This action uses the President’s general authority under the Constitution and U.S. laws to recognize and encourage public service, but it does not create new laws or require any specific actions by individuals or organizations. The proclamation affects all Americans by inviting them to volunteer and participate in service projects during that week and beyond. While it does not impose legal obligations, it aims to raise awareness and promote a spirit of helping others in communities across the country. Read full document →
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On April 23, 2025, President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order to improve teaching and learning about artificial intelligence (AI) for American students and workers. This order creates a special group called the White House Task Force on Artificial Intelligence Education, led by the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, which includes leaders from several government departments like Education, Labor, and Agriculture. The Task Force must plan a national AI competition for students and teachers within 90 days and hold it within a year. The order also directs government agencies to work with private companies and schools to create online AI learning materials for K-12 students within 180 days and to help teachers get training on AI by using existing education grants within 120 days. It encourages expanding AI-related apprenticeships and job training programs, with specific goals and guidance to states on using federal funds for AI skills. The order affects students, teachers, workers, and employers by aiming to build AI skills early and throughout life, which the order says is important for future jobs and innovation. However, the order depends on available funding and does not create any legal rights or change existing agency powers. Read full document →
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On April 23, 2025, President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order aiming to stop the government from using a legal rule called “disparate-impact liability,” which the order says forces businesses and agencies to treat people differently based on race, sex, or other group traits, even if no one meant to discriminate. This order affects federal agencies, employers, and anyone involved in civil rights laws, especially those related to job hiring, housing, and credit. It directs agencies to stop enforcing rules that allow lawsuits based on differences in outcomes between groups, to review and change existing rules and cases that use this idea, and to report back within 30 to 90 days on their progress. The order says this matters because it claims that treating people as individuals without considering group traits is the best way to ensure fairness and opportunity, though this view is presented as the administration’s policy position rather than an established legal fact. Read full document →
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On April 23, 2025, President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order aimed at changing how schools handle student discipline. The order directs the Secretary of Education and the Attorney General to issue new rules within 30 days to stop schools from using race-based methods when disciplining students, saying such methods are unfair and unsafe. It affects local and state education agencies, schools, and students across the country, including children of military families, whose discipline rules will be reviewed within 90 days. The order also requires a report within 120 days on past investigations about race and discipline, the role of nonprofit groups, and suggestions for fair school discipline policies. The White House says these steps are needed because previous guidance encouraging schools to consider racial data in discipline led to less safety and more classroom problems, though this claim reflects the administration’s view and is debated. The order emphasizes that discipline should focus on student behavior, not race, and aims to promote what it calls “common sense” discipline policies. Read full document →
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On April 23, 2025, President Donald J. Trump issued a proclamation asking all Americans to observe the Days of Remembrance of Victims of the Holocaust from April 20 to April 27, 2025. This action calls on people to remember and honor the six million Jewish victims and other groups persecuted by the Nazis during World War II, through study, prayers, and ceremonies. The proclamation also highlights an executive order signed by the President directing the federal government to use legal tools to fight anti-Semitic harassment, especially in schools and colleges, including removing non-citizens who break laws. This affects Holocaust survivors, Jewish Americans, students, and others targeted by anti-Semitism. The proclamation aims to remind the nation of the horrors of the Holocaust and to prevent such hatred from happening again. Read full document →
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The President officially declared the week from April 19 to April 27, 2025, as National Park Week. This action is a formal announcement called a proclamation, which encourages all Americans to learn about and celebrate the natural and historical places protected as national parks. It affects everyone in the country by promoting awareness and appreciation of these parks, which the document says include over 400 important sites visited by millions each year. The proclamation also highlights past steps taken by the President’s administration, like changing park names and creating a new monument to honor American heroes. While this declaration does not create new laws or require specific actions, it serves to focus public attention on national parks and their role in American history and culture during that particular week. Read full document →
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On April 23, 2025, President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order directing key government departments—Labor, Commerce, and Education—to review and improve all federal programs that help train workers for skilled trade jobs. These departments have 90 days to report ideas on how to better connect training programs with the needs of growing industries, cut down on ineffective programs, and use new tools like Artificial Intelligence to help workers learn. They also have 120 days to create a plan to add at least 1 million new apprenticeships, which are work-and-learn programs, especially in new and fast-growing job areas. The order aims to make these programs clearer and more accountable by sharing data on how well they help workers get good jobs and earn more money. This action affects workers looking for training, employers needing skilled workers, and the agencies running these programs. While the order sets goals and deadlines, it depends on existing laws and available funding, and it does not create new legal rights for anyone. Read full document →
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On April 23, 2025, President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order creating a new White House Initiative to support Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). This initiative is led by an Executive Director in the White House and works with government agencies, private companies, and others to help HBCUs improve education quality, financial stability, and student opportunities, especially in fields like technology and healthcare. It also sets up a Board of Advisors made up of HBCU leaders and experts to advise the President. The order replaces a previous 2021 initiative and requires agencies to assist but pay their own costs. It affects HBCUs, their students, and related organizations by aiming to increase funding, improve infrastructure, and promote student success, but it depends on available government funding and does not create legal rights for anyone. Read full document →
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On April 23, 2025, President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order aimed at changing how colleges and universities are checked for quality by groups called accreditors. These accreditors decide which schools can receive over $100 billion each year in federal student loans and grants. The order says some accreditors have been unfairly requiring schools to follow certain diversity rules that the President’s administration believes are illegal. It directs the Secretary of Education and the Attorney General to investigate and possibly stop accreditors and schools that use these diversity rules in ways that break the law. The order also calls for new rules to make sure accreditors focus on student success, lower costs, and respect different opinions, while allowing more competition among accreditors. This affects colleges, universities, law schools, and medical schools that rely on federal funding and accreditation. The order says these changes will help students get better education and protect taxpayers, but it will be carried out only as allowed by law and available funding. Read full document →
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On April 23, 2025, President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order directing the Secretary of Education to strictly enforce a law from 1965 that requires colleges and universities to report money they get from foreign sources. The order says that many schools have not been honest about how much foreign money they receive or where it really comes from. It tells the Secretary of Education to work with other government officials, including the Attorney General, to make sure schools fully and clearly share this information, and to punish those that do not follow the rules. The order also says that schools must prove they are following these rules to get federal grant money. This action affects all American colleges and universities that receive foreign funding or federal grants. The order aims to protect American education and research from hidden foreign influence, but it depends on government enforcement and available funding to work. Read full document →
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