"Given the dismal results on the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress, released today, I’m pleased to see the administration doing what it can to ensure families have access to more and better choices," Hess said. "While there are significant limits to what’s possible, given statutory constraints and Washington’s modest role in K-12 schooling, it’s notable that the administration is doing what it can to extend the parental choice rather than stymie it — a pattern that was all too familiar during the past four years.”

Derrell Bradford, the president of 50CAN, a nonprofit group that supports school choice, said the executive order "is timely, given many governors, families, students and educators across the nation, in all types of schools, are celebrating National School Choice Week right now. I, and I am sure many other advocates at the state level, look forward to seeing the recommendations put forth on this uniquely popular issue.”