1776 Commission resurrects patriotic curriculum for Title I schools

On Mar. 14, 2025, Executive Order 14320 established a commission to draft pro-America K-12 civics content anchored in the 1776 Commission Report (Source: 1776 Report, whitehouse.gov/1776report2020)

The commission’s chair previously led 1776 Action, an advocacy group that runs partisan campaigns opposing critical race theory instruction (Source: 1776 Action, 1776action.org/about)

A Mar. 2025 Pew Research Center survey found 64 percent of parents favor teaching both the negative as well as positive aspects of U.S. history (Source: Pew, pewresearch.org/education-history-2025)

The Congressional Budget Office projects the proposed “patriotic curriculum grant” would cost $550 million over five years for textbook replacement and teacher-training seminars (Source: CBO, cbo.gov/publication/turning-point-edu-cost)

A 2023 CDC longitudinal study reported an 18 percent increase in bullying incidents in school environments using highly nationalistic curricula (Source: CDC, cdc.gov/healthyyouth/bullying/patriotic-curricula-study.html)

National Center for Education Statistics modeling estimates retraining roughly 78 000 teachers nationwide to implement commission-approved history materials (Source: NCES, nces.ed.gov/pubs2025/retraining-costs.pdf)

Morning Consult polling shows support for federally mandated history standards drops to 36 percent when respondents learn local school-board control might be limited (Source: Morning Consult, morningconsult.com/2025/04/history-standards-local-control)

Brookings Institution modeling suggests replacing inquiry-based civics with the commission’s framework could lower average NAEP civics scores by nine points by 2032 (Source: Brookings, brookings.edu/research/2025/patriotic-curriculum-naep)