Author: Kalyn Belsha, Erica Meltzer

Sign up for Chalkbeat’s free weekly newsletter to keep up with how education is changing across the U.S.With a series of sweeping executive actions, President Donald Trump is seeking to remake K-12 education in a conservative image. In the process, he’s pushing legal and political boundaries on how far the federal government can reach into American classrooms.But the executive orders on their own have little power to radically and rapidly change an American school system in which states, school districts, and even individual schools have traditionally called the shots on everything from what kids learn to which restroom transgender students…