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Federal support for artificial intelligence in education seems to have serious chances of gaining ground, because the Trump administration would weigh a draft decree on the issue on Tuesday, according to Tuesday, The Washington Post.
The order project is likely to change, and we do not know when a final version would be issued – if necessary. However, as it is written, several federal agencies would be responsible for helping to train the students and teachers of the AI, post. More specifically, these agencies would be responsible for developing public-private partnerships on skills in literacy and critical thinking of AI alongside industry, university and non-profit organizations.
The draft reported decree would also establish a White House working group on AI in education that would be led by Michael Kratsios, director of the White House science and technological office. Other federal officials of this working group include the secretaries of education, agriculture, work and energy.
Other priorities for federal project agencies include examining existing federal subsidies and spending on AI initiatives, especially in education. Federal funding for subsidies for the training of AI teachers would be a key objective awarded to the US Secretary for Education Linda McMahon under the reported order project.
In addition, the order calls for federal registered learning in the fields related to AI and a national competition for students and teachers in order to present their IA skills.
Who takes the lead on AI?
What strikes some IA and ED technology experts is that it seems that this decree was written only one month after the Trump administration abolished the United States Ministry of Education Educational Technology Office. This office was created by the Congress in the 1994 law of education technology to open the way to the use of fair technology in schools.
The closure of the OET has underestimated the credibility and sustainability of any future AI education initiative at the federal level, which is really worrying, said Bernadette Adams, former OP assistant director before being closed. Adams has worked in the technological policy of education with the federal government in the past 28 years.
“Given the speed with which AI changes the landscape of teaching and learning … by dismantling Oet and now rushing to rebuild a parallel structure without institutional memory seems really incredibly strange,” said Adams.
In recent years only, the OET has published several resources on the use of AI in class designed for teachers, districts and the emergency technology industry. Online access to these resources has since disappeared from the website of the education department, but these documents can still be found in the world's non -profit organization European alliance Edtech page.
The advice on AI for schools “focused on the protection of students, the empowerment of the educator and the trustworthy AI,” said Adams. “These are some sort of what I think I think is the EO project.”
On the basis of the reports of the draft decree, it is not clear which, exactly in the federal government, will be responsible for the spear of all the initiatives of the newly described AI for schools, said Pat Yongpradit, university director of Code.org and Lead for Teachai.
At least 26 States have published advice on AI For schools, according to Teachai, a national coalition of non -profit organizations, educational authorities, researchers, associations, non -governmental organizations and technological companies that aim to guide schools on the use of safe and ethical AI.
For Yongpradit, the draft decree is a “wonderful” idea that seems to represent proposed policies that have evolved in a Bipartite working group for AI. Yongpradit also said that he appreciated the accent put by order on the literacy of AI and the skills of critical thinking.
However, what was missing, said Yongpradit, was a recognition and a need to respond to the fact that “many states are not ready for AI”, since they do not often need students to learn the fundamental principles of computer science. Such lessons can instruct the functioning of AI as well as the ethical and social impacts of technology. In 2025, only 11 states had a IT diploma requirementaccording to code.org.
“I hope that the final decree will clarify what the literacy of AI, what it needs, and how it is much more than surface things like fast engineering or time to save time,” said Yongpradit.
Although it is logical to have a dedicated and targeted federal effort on AI in education, said Adams, cutting institutional memory and technical expertise to effectively work is less logical.
“The way you can be harmful as opposed to beneficial,” said Adams.
