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Much of the Trump administration’s dismantling of the U.S. Department of Education would become permanent under a package of bills released this week by Republicans on the House Education and the Workforce committee, including Rep. Tim Walberg of Michigan, the panel’s chairman.The introduction of the 10 measures—which are expected to receive committee consideration as early as next week—represents the most significant step so far among congressional Republicans to make good on President Donald Trump’s campaign promise to nix the Education Department.The package of bills, unlike some other legislation that’s been proposed, wouldn’t formally close the Education Department. But they still…

Two transgender girls who were the first to challenge President Donald Trump’s executive order, “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports,” have withdrawn their lawsuit in New Hampshire based on a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that upheld state bans on transgender athletes in girls’ sports and their own personal hardships, their lawyer said.“This case was always about two courageous young girls who simply wanted the same opportunities as their peers to participate in school life,” their lawyer, Chris Erchull of GLAD Law, said in a statement Thursday. “Their willingness to stand up to extraordinary hostility made clear the human cost…

A new federal policy subjecting graduate-level teaching and education leadership degrees to lower federal borrowing caps will constrain educators’ advancement into administrative jobs such as principal and superintendent positions, a new research analysis finds.“This has sweeping workforce implications” in education, Lennon Audrain, an assistant professor of education at Arizona State University and the author of the study, said in an interview.Audrain, who studies educator workforce issues, recently released a working paper that analyzes the potential impact of the lower borrowing limits that educators face under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that passed last summer and the U.S. Department of…

The Trump administration is advancing a sweeping set of regulatory changes that, if implemented, could permanently destabilize how schools and educators receive and spend federal dollars.New rules currently under review would add new restrictions on grant-funded efforts that clash with the current and future presidents’ policy positions, empower political appointees to intervene in ongoing awards and even terminate them early, and create new paperwork burdens for recipients of federal money.The proposed revisions to what’s known as the federal government’s “uniform grants guidance,” managed by the White House Office of Management and Budget, have garnered widespread blowback, including from lawmakers, researchers,…

We asked students around the country to reflect on the phrase “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” and recorded what the high schoolers had to say. Note: This piece mentions self harm. 2026-07-05 12:04:20 Source link

A divided Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a broad conception of birthright citizenship, rejecting President Donald Trump’s executive order declaring that children born in the United States to undocumented immigrants or temporary foreign residents are not American citizens. The justices relied on a long-settled understanding of the 14th Amendment, adopted after the Civil War, and more recent federal laws in ruling that anyone born in the country, with very limited exceptions, is a citizen. “Citizenship, then and now, was the right to have rights—to freely participate in our political community. The Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment extended that promise to…

State education agency leaders whose work focuses on English learners have increasingly found themselves balancing the need to uphold these students’ federal civil rights while also navigating anti-DEI policies and politics. That tension is reshaping how states design, describe, and defend programs serving the nation’s more than 5 million multilingual learners.That’s one of the key findings from a new research study published in early June in the American Educational Research Journal. The qualitative study is based on interviews and observational data collected over the last five years within a national research-practice partnership focused on English learners, or multilingual learners. Its…

Changes to federal student loans expected to affect millions of borrowers took effect at the start of July. A part of President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” these changes mean the end of some payment plans and new limits for graduate loans. Along with the end of the Biden-era SAVE plan, the changes are expected to raise the cost of payments for millions of borrowers. “The main concern is the affordability of monthly payments. I think a lot of people are simply going to see their payment increase significantly and they’re either going to have to stretch pretty significantly to…

Federal agencies should support display of the Ten Commandments in public schools, issue guidance on parents’ rights to opt their children out of lessons that conflict with their religious beliefs, and promote the rights of students and school employees to express their religious views on campus, a federal religious liberty commission said in new recommendations.The sprawling 220-page draft report includes recommendations for federal agencies involved in healthcare, K-12 and higher education, the military, and employment law. It broadly calls for an “originalist” interpretation of religious freedom in the Constitution, viewing that freedom as a “bridge” between personal belief and public…

The U.S. Supreme Court decision this week allowing states to exclude transgender girls and women from female sports settles one major issue, but leaves school leaders navigating major gray areas.The decision in West Virginia v. B.P.J., which was 6-3 on one key issue and unanimous on another, upholds policies now in place in 27 states but stops short of creating a nationwide rule. Instead, the court left open whether states may adopt policies that protect transgender girls’ participation consistent with their gender identity.“Nothing in this opinion is intended to decide that question,” Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh said in a footnote…