Trump/Vance Administration Updates

Moving Native Education Programs from the Department of Education to the Department of the Interior

Click below to explore what this change means and review supporting materials.

Government Shutdown Reductions in Force - October 10, 2025

Click below to review NIEA's materials and toolkit on protecting jobs serving Trust and Treaty obligations to Native Education.

ED Ends Discretionary Grants to Minority Serving Institutions - September 25, 2025

Click below to review NIEA's materials on reinstating funding for Native Serving Nontribal Higher Education Institutions.

BIE Hiring Freeze Exemption- September 17, 2025

Click below to review NIEA’s materials on lifting the BIE Hiring Freeze.

Department of ED response letter to NIEA- April 25, 2025

Click below to review the Department of Education’s response to NIEA.

EO 14242- Returning Education to the States- March 20, 2025

Click below to review NIEA’s materials on the Executive Order on ‘Improving Education Outcomes by Empowering Parents, States, and Communities’

EO 14120- Reductions in Force- February 14, 2025

Click below to review NIEA’s materials on the Executive Order on ‘Implementing the President's “Department of Government Efficiency” Workforce Optimization Initiative’

EO 14191- School Choice- January 29, 2025

Click below to review NIEA’s materials on the Executive Order on ‘Expanding Educational Freedom and Opportunity for Families’

EO 14190- Radical Indoctrination & Critical Race Theory- January 29, 2025

Click below to review NIEA’s materials on the Executive Order on ‘Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling’

EO 14151- Ending DEI- January 20, 2025

Click below to review NIEA’s materials on the Executive Order on ‘Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing’