In Pennsylvania, the vast majority of school funding comes from local property taxes and the state. Still, Trump’s order was cheered by conservative activists pushing expanded school choice programs.

The order will also reinstate the 1776 Commission that Trump created during his first term in office to promote patriotic education.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday will sign an executive order to promote school choice that would also end "funding for public schools that support critical race theory and other divisive measures in their curriculums,