President Signs Executive Order to Shake Up Education Funding, Leaving Struggling Schools on High Alert. In a move that has left educators and policymakers on edge, the President has signed an executive order that threatens to withhold funding from schools that fail to meet stricter standards. The new rules, which are still in the early stages of development, aim to hold schools accountable for their performance and ensure that taxpayer dollars are being used effectively. However, the real question on everyone's mind is: which schools will be impacted and how quickly will the new rules take effect, leaving already cash-strapped institutions scrambling to adapt.
The threat of cutting funding to cash-starved schools that don't comply is real, even if the stricter rules that come out of the executive order he signed Friday could take a while to figure out.
