4. Department of Defense · Notable
Audit DOD school curricula and health policies and remove inappropriate materials
Printed page 104 4. Department of Defense
“Audit all curricula and health policies in DOD schools for military families, remove all inappropriate materials, and reverse inappropriate policies.”
What has happened
- Partially done
The FY2026 NDAA sec. 901(f) bars the Secretary of Defense from developing, implementing or purchasing training courses relating to diversity, equity or inclusion, which reaches Department of Defense Education Activity instruction; the Act's DoDEA provisions otherwise concern school operations rather than a curriculum and health-policy audit.
- Partially done
The audit ran and produced removals, and the record of it is a court's. The Eastern District of Virginia's preliminary-injunction opinion in *E.K. v. Department of Defense Education Activity* (1:25-cv-637) finds, on the Department's own declaration, that "following the issuance of the EOs, DoDEA launched an 'Administrative Operational Compliance Review' of all classroom resources and library books to comply with the EOs"; that any library books "potentially related to gender ideology or discriminatory equity ideology topics as defined in the Executive Orders were relocated to the professional collection for evaluation"; that for curricular resources DoDEA "directed staff not to use them for instruction while the review is ongoing"; that identification began from "subject headings and key words"; and that DoDEA produced to the court "one consolidated list of removed books" implying a centralized repository. That is the audit of all curricula, and material actually removed — `partial`, not `attempted`. It is not `done`: the review is described in the same opinion as still running, with "an even more focused review" of educational and pedagogical value to come, and the Quote's health-policy limb is not part of it. Nor is it `blocked`: the injunction of the same date enjoins further removals and orders restoration only at the five plaintiff schools — Crossroads Elementary, Barsanti Elementary, Aviano Middle-High, Stollars Elementary and Egdren Middle High — leaving the review in force everywhere else. Cross-appeals were docketed in the Fourth Circuit (25-2497 and 26-1002); as of 2026-09-06 briefing has closed, no opinion has issued and no stay appears on either docket.
- Attempted
EO 14190 sec. 3 requires the Secretaries of Education, Defense and Health and Human Services, within 90 days, to give the President an "Ending Indoctrination Strategy" containing a plan for eliminating federal funding or support for "indoctrination in K-12 schools, including based on gender ideology and discriminatory equity ideology," together with an analysis of every funding stream and of each agency's process for preventing funds from subsidizing the social transition of a minor student. The Department of Defense Education Activity is inside that scope. A directive; no removed materials or reversed policies are on the record.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
The audit the Quote asks for was ordered government-wide within nine days of the inauguration, and it names the Department of Defense as one of three departments that must produce the strategy.
Moved attempted → partial on 2026-09-06. The earlier note recorded that “no implementing action inside the Department of Defense Education Activity is documented on a readable allowlisted source” because DoDEA’s own pages refused to open and its site, dodea.edu, is off the allowlist entirely. That is still true of DoDEA’s website and it stopped mattering: DoDEA was sued over the removals, and the litigation record is Primary, allowlisted and readable. The federal court opinions we keep and search include two E.K. v. DoDEA opinions (2025-07-11 and 2026-03-20); the operative document is the 44-page preliminary-injunction opinion of 2025-10-20, found through CourtListener’s search of the Eastern District of Virginia docket 1:25-cv-00637 and read from CourtListener’s document store. The Department’s own declaration, quoted in it, is the audit’s only public description. The approach that reaches court records works for a question that is not about a court, too: where an agency will not describe what it did, the people who sued it made it describe that in a filing.
This item sits in the page 103–104 personnel cluster, whose shared instruments are EO 14151, EO 14183, the FY2026 NDAA titles V, VI and IX, and the Secretary of Defense’s 2025 personnel memoranda — nearly all of which live on Department of War pages that refuse automated reads. One negative search covered the whole cluster.
- Action
- eliminate
- Object
- DOD school curricula and health policies
- ID
- 179