President Trump issued orders this week seeking to restrict transgender students' rights while promoting school vouchers and "patriotic education." Louisiana has already done that.

A new executive order directs the U.S. Department of Education to prioritize vouchers and other alternatives in its own grants and find ways for states to tap other federal money that currently flows to public schools.

Trump will order Education Department to prioritize expanding school choice programs and access to private school vouchers.

In one of the most hotly-contested questions in modern Tennessee political history, the legislature narrowly approved a $430 million private-school voucher program that critics say will grow quickly to $1 billion and endanger the state’s budget.

Vouchers would let parents use public funds to pay for their kids’ private education. Learn about how they could work and the political battle around them.

The Education Department is being told to use discretionary money to prioritize school choice programs and give states new guidance on how they can use federal money to support K-12 voucher programs.

An executive order signed by President Donald Trump directs an emphasis on school choice and private school voucher programs when it comes to education funding, something that’s been happening in Ohio for several decades now.