The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has not exactly been covering itself in glory lately. From not assisting federal immigration officers when they came under assault during enforcement raids. LA County Sheriff Robert Luna has been accused of having his deputies slow walk assistance to federal officers who were attacked during an immigration protest at...
The judge said the administration has made it clear it intends to gut the agency without approval from Congress. President Donald Trump’s sweeping deregulatory agenda was dealt a blow on Thursday when a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction to block Trump’s executive order to dismantle the Department of Education and ordered reinstatements of laid...
The New York Times pretended to have a scoop, outlining the major changes coming to the State Department under Marco Rubio. The only problem with the story? It was entirely fake. Well, not entirely. Rubio IS shaking up the State Department; it’s just that in every other respect, the Times got it wrong. Ed wrote...
The State Department’s findings came in a memo issued days before DHS abducted Öztürk anyway. The State Department internally found no evidence supporting the Trump administration’s reasoning for abducting and pushing to deport Tufts University graduate student Rümeysa Öztürk, new reporting finds, just days before immigration officials snatched her off the streets and took her...
Some students were forced to leave the country after being sent a text message saying that their visas were cancelled. More than 100 colleges and universities across the country have reported cases of student visas being revoked by the U.S. State Department, with the department changing the legal status of over 600 international students and...
The Trump administration’s threat comes as many school districts are preparing their budgets for the next school year. This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. The U.S. Department of Education is giving state education agencies 10 days to certify that their schools do not engage in any practices...
On Monday, a coalition of education advocacy groups filed a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s executive order aimed at dismantling the U.S. Department of Education. The coalition includes the National Education Association (NEA) — the country’s largest union — the NAACP, several other advocacy organizations, and parents of public school students. “Nothing is more important...
Ana Faguy BBC News, Washington DC Watch: President Trump signs order to shut education department ‘once and for all’ US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to dismantle the Department of Education, fulfilling a campaign pledge and a long-cherished goal of some conservatives. Accusing the agency of “breath-taking failures”, the Republican president vowed...
Twenty-one Democratic attorneys general have filed suit to stop the dismantling of the Department of Education. Twenty-one Democratic attorneys general have filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration to stop the dismantling of the Department of Education, arguing that firing approximately 50 percent of the department’s workforce significantly impairs its ability to fulfill its legal...