The academic leaders vowed to resist Trump’s efforts for “retribution, censorship, or deportation.” Hundreds of colleges, universities and scholarly societies in the U.S. have pledged to resist the Trump administration’s “unprecedented” all-out attacks on higher education as the president targets universities with massive funding revocations and other retribution. Over 200 institutions have signed a statement,...
One of the most important insights of public policy is the understanding that most laws are predicated upon a (stated or unstated) quid pro quo. Take, for example, the roiling monthslong debate about President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement agenda. Prior to the media uproar over the much-ballyhooed...
The nation’s historically Black colleges and universities, known as HBCUs, are wondering how to survive in an uncertain and contentious educational climate as the Trump administration downsizes the scope and purpose of the U.S. Department of Education — while cutting away at federal funding for higher education. In January, President Donald Trump signed an executive...
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...
A new bill proposed in the California legislature threatens to undermine the rollout of ethnic studies classes in the state’s high schools. Assembly Bill (AB) 1468 is the latest installment in a series of legislation backed by pro-Israel organizations seeking to intervene in ethnic studies classrooms and silence Palestine-related speech in California schools. “This latest...
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...
On the back of years of Tory austerity, the education sector is preparing for the “worst financial situation for a generation” after chancellor Rachel Reeves’ Spring Statement on 26 March. Headteachers have already warned that schools face “death by a thousand cuts” partly because the proposed pay increase for teachers is unfunded and the Labour...
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...