A Little Beacon Blog reached out to Dr. Landahl. the Superintendant of the Beacon City School District, to ask if the district was experiencing any impact from the White House’s declared cuts to federal spending this week. “No, not as of yet,” he told us. “We will monitor this very closely and let everyone know when or if it does impact the BCSD.”

According to Education Week: “School districts and education policy experts spent much of Tuesday struggling to determine which education-related funding streams would be frozen as a result of the order, and wondering what the future held for the funds long-term.

“Then, just minutes before the freeze order was set to take effect Tuesday evening, a federal district court judge in Washington halted it until a follow-up hearing scheduled for Monday could take place.”

Also according to that article, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt spoke with reporters “about a pause in federal funding the Trump administration ordered this week as it reviews grants and programs to determine whether they violate executive orders cracking down on diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, as well as ‘gender ideology.’"

Then, just an hour before the publication of this article, the White House announced another order that President Trump would sign today Wednesday. According to Reuters, the order would include:

• End "funding for public schools that support critical race theory and other divisive measures in their curriculums." The term “divisive” is one worded by the White House. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, “Critical Race Theory (CRT) is a framework that offers researchers, practitioners, and policy-makers a race-conscious approach to understanding educational inequality and structural racism to find solutions that lead to greater justice. Placing race at the center of analysis, Critical Race Theory scholars interrogate policies and practices that are taken for granted to uncover the overt and covert ways that racist ideologies, structures, and institutions create and maintain racial inequality.”

• "Direct 'the Department of Education to issue guidance on how the States can use federal funding formulas to support their K-12 scholarship programs.'"

• "Directs the U.S. Department of Education to prioritize federal funding for school choice programs through its grant programs."

• "States will be directed on how they could use block grants to support alternatives to public education, such as private and religious schools."

• "U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth must also create a plan allowing military families to use Pentagon funds to send their children to the school of their choosing."

• "The Department of the Interior must also address how Native American families with students in the Bureau of Indian Education can use federal funds to send their children to schools of their choice."

• Student visas would be canceled "for what it called 'Hamas sympathizers' at U.S. colleges and universities."