# Executive Order 14214

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Donald Trump's sixty-eighth executive order of his second presidency, originally published on February 14, 2025 by the White House. Published as Executive Order 14214 on February 20, 2025 in the Federal Register. Addressed to the Secretary of Education, in consultation with the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Scan: Index:Executive Order 14214.pdf
Signed by President Donald Trump Friday, February 14, 2025
Federal Register page & date: 90 FR 9949, Thursday, February 20, 2025
​Executive Order 14214 of February 14, 2025
Keeping Education Accessible and Ending COVID–19 Vaccine Mandates in Schools
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:
Section 1. Purpose and Policy. Some school districts and universities continue to coerce children and young adults into taking the COVID–19 vaccine by conditioning their education on it, and others may re-implement such mandates. Parents and young adults should be empowered with accurate data regarding the remote risks of serious illness associated with COVID–19 for children and young adults, as well as how those risks can be mitigated through various measures, and left free to make their own decisions accordingly. Given the incredibly low risk of serious COVID–19 illness for children and young adults, threatening to shut them out of an education is an intolerable infringement on personal freedom. Such mandates usurp parental authority and burden students of many faiths.
It is the policy of my Administration that discretionary Federal funds should not be used to directly or indirectly support or subsidize an educational service agency, State educational agency, local educational agency, elementary school, secondary school, or institution of higher education that requires students to have received a COVID–19 vaccination to attend any in-person education program.
Sec. 2. Definitions. For the purposes of this order:
(a) The term “educational service agency” has the meaning given in 20 U.S.C. 1401(5).
(b) The term “elementary school” has the meaning given in 34 CFR 77.1(c).
(c) The term “institution of higher education” has the meaning given in 20 U.S.C. 1001(a).
(d) The term “local educational agency” has the meaning given in 34 CFR 77.1(c).
(e) The term “secondary school” has the meaning given in 34 CFR 77.1(c).
(f) The term “State educational agency” has the meaning given in 34 CFR 77.1(c).
Sec. 3. Ending COVID–19 Vaccine Mandate Coercion. (a) The Secretary of Education shall as soon as practicable issue guidelines to elementary schools, local educational agencies, State educational agencies, secondary schools, and institutions of higher education regarding those entities’ legal obligations with respect to parental authority, religious freedom, disability accommodations, and equal protection under law, as relevant to coercive COVID–19 school mandates.
(b) Within 90 days of the date of this order, the Secretary of Education, in consultation with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, shall provide to the President, through the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, a plan to end coercive COVID–19 school mandates, consistent with applicable law, and including, as appropriate, any proposed legislation. Such plan shall also include:
Sec. 4. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:
(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.
(c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.
THE WHITE HOUSE, February 14, 2025.
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States federal government (see 17 U.S.C. 105).
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