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Presidential Memorandum

Continuing To Expand Opportunity for All Young People

This memorandum amends a 2014 Obama-era initiative by renaming the 'My Brother's Keeper' program to the 'Task Force on Improving the Lives of Boys and Young Men of Color and Underserved Youth,' expanding its membership to include 23 specified agency heads and officials, adding reporting requirements including annual status reports and biennial reviews, and broadening the scope to explicitly include 'underserved youth' alongside boys and young men of color.

Federal Register Open PDF 82 FR 7623

Impact dates

  1. Task Force to provide status report to President at least once each calendar year

  2. Task Force to review 90-day report recommendations, determine updated recommendations, and evaluate critical indicators every 2 years

Key directives

  • rename My Brother's Keeper initiative to Task Force on Improving the Lives of Boys and Young Men of Color and Underserved Youth
  • expand Task Force membership to 23 specified officials
  • add annual status report requirement to President
  • require biennial review of 90-day report recommendations and critical indicators
  • expand scope to include 'underserved youth'
  • Secretary of Education to publish in Federal Register

Who is ordered

Timeline

Immediate

  • memorandum takes effect upon issuance
  • Secretary of Education directed to publish in Federal Register

Near term (90d)

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Long term

  • annual status reports to President
  • biennial review of recommendations and critical indicators

Risks & tensions

  • vague 'as appropriate' qualifiers in sections 2(a)(i) and 2(f) may weaken accountability
  • transition timing (January 13, 2017, one week before inauguration) raises implementation uncertainty under new administration
  • no funding or enforcement mechanisms specified
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