“We will support ending Teacher Tenure, adopting Merit pay, and allowing various publicly supported Educational models. [The administration will] implement funding preferences and favorable treatment for states and school districts that abolish teacher tenure for grades K-12, adopt Merit Pay to reward good teachers.”
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About 17 months into the second term, no executive order, rule, or legislation has implemented funding preferences or favorable treatment for states or school districts that abolish teacher tenure or adopt merit pay. The administration's principal vehicles for setting grant preferences - Executive Order 14191 (January 29, 2025) and the Education Department's final Secretary's Supplemental Priorities (published September 9, 2025, effective October 9, 2025, replacing all prior agency-wide priorities) - cover literacy, education choice, and returning education to the states, with no mention of tenure or merit pay. The administration therefore had a clear opportunity through its own grant-priority rulemaking and did not act on this specific pledge as of July 2, 2026.
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