Summary

Restores access to all curricula, books, and other learning materials that were available in Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) schools before January 20, 2025, and bars the Secretary of Defense from removing or limiting those materials until after the 2026–2027 school year. It also creates new procedural limits on DoD directives that change curricula, library resources, or school events, forbids use of federal funds in the Department of Defense to implement certain named Presidential Executive Orders, and directs the Government Accountability Office to study the feasibility of an independent body to design DoDEA curricula.

Key Points

• Restores all DoDEA curricular materials to the state they were in on January 20, 2025, within 30 days of enactment.
• Bars the Secretary of Defense from limiting availability of those materials until after the 2026–2027 school year.
• Imposes new notice, waiting‑period, and advisory‑committee requirements before issuing directives that affect curricula across multiple DoDEA schools.
• Requires only a 30‑day notice to a single school advisory committee before changing library or printed instructional materials at an individual DoDEA school.
• Prohibits use of DoD funds to implement or enforce seven specified Presidential Executive Orders (DoD‑only application).
• Mandates a GAO study on creating an independent body to design and implement DoDEA curricula, with a report due in 270 days.
• Requires a DoD report within 180 days listing materials flagged for removal after January 20, 2025, and describing the review processes used.
• Protects schools’ authority to plan and hold duly approved cultural or commemorative events and prevents funding punishment solely for holding such events.
• Adds statutory procedural protections that delay or limit rapid, systemwide curricular changes across DoDEA.

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