Rep. Messer Joins President Trump for Signing of Executive Order to Target Federal Education Overreach

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Rep. Luke Messer (IN-06) joined President Donald Trump today for the signing of an Executive Order calling on Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos to review existing regulations on America's schools and teachers, and identify Education Department overreach during the Obama administration.

"Our schools, teachers and administrators are buried under one-size-fits-all, federal regulations that in many cases do more harm than good," Messer said. "We need to identify outdated and overreaching rules that restrict local educators, stifle innovation in the classroom and ultimately hold our students back from success. I commend President Trump and Secretary DeVos for working to bring our education system into the 21st Century, and give more control to parents and local educators."

President Trump signed the Executive Order Enforcing Statutory Prohibitions on Federal Control of Education today, which calls on the Secretary of Education to review all Department of Education regulations and guidance documents relating to the Department of Education Organization Act (DEOA), the General Education Provisions Act (GEPA), and the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) as amended by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).

The House of Representatives has passed 15 Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolutions aimed at nullifying burdensome Obama regulations, 13 of which have been signed by the President. Two of these CRAs target Department of Education rules that discouraged innovation, including one-size-fits-all teacher prep regulations and onerous federal accountability rules.

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