Ledger · 2024 campaign · № 175

Incentivize states to abolish teacher tenure for K-12

Never delivered
“[paraphrase] We will take funding away from schools that don't end teacher tenure and adopt merit pay.”
Promised
, Agenda 47 education policy video
Re-promised
3 times with a fresh deadline
Topic
Education
Era
2024 campaign

What happened

No federal incentive program targeting teacher tenure was created, and tenure remains a matter of state law and collective bargaining. PolitiFact rated the promise Stalled in its January 2026 one-year review.

Sources

  1. MAGA-Meter: Incentivize abolishing teacher tenure for grades K-12 PolitiFact, Jan 20, 2026
  2. MAGA-Meter: Trump's Second Term PolitiFact, Jan 20, 2026