The Education Department released its latest regulatory agenda Friday.
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After a year of carrying out Congress’s higher ed overhaul, the Education Department is now turning its attention to other key political priorities of the Trump administration—defining sex; eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion programs; and cracking down on foreign funding in education.
The new regulatory agenda, which was released Friday and first reported on by Politico, includes 19 proposed items. Six of the items deal directly with higher ed, and another four concern civil rights enforcement. The regulatory agenda provides brief descriptions of what the department wants to change for each topic but doesn’t offer more details.
The department also includes projected timelines for each regulatory action, but the agenda is ambitious and those dates are just ideals. It is rare for any administration to complete all the items it lists on a regulatory agenda in a given year. For instance, at least four of the items on this year’s list were carried over from last year.
