On June 18, 2025, a U.S. District Judge ordered the U.S Department of Education (USDE) to reinstate all laid-off Office for Civil Rights employees for now, saying the layoffs and shuttering of seven regional offices had rendered the remaining staff “incapable of addressing the vast majority of OCR complaints.” The…
Some schools would no longer have to allow students to try out for a noncontact sports team that doesn’t align with their gender if there is no equivalent team for their gender, under a Title IX regulation issued recently by the U.S. Department of Energy — not the U.S. Department…
According to K-12 Dive, on June 6, 2025 the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) asked the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) for an immediate pause on a court order that the U.S. Department of Education (USDE) reinstate nearly 1,400 employees fired during a mass workforce reduction in March. The DOJ’s appeal…
At a June 5, 2025 congressional hearing it was reported that the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has seen caseloads for those still employed at the agency ballooning from an average of 42 cases per caseworker to 115 per caseworker due to the March 2025 layoffs…
On June 4, 2025. the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the Trump administration’s motion for a stay in a lawsuit challenging the dismantling of the U.S. Department of Education (USDE), effectively halting efforts to reduce the agency’s workforce and transfer some education responsibilities to other federal departments until the…
On Tuesday, June 3, 2025, U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon defended the U.S. Department of Education's (USDE) FY 26 Budget at a Senate hearing on Capital Hill. The budget recommends a total of $66.7 billion for all USDE activities, which would be $12 billion, or 15.3%, less than its current…
On Friday, May 30, 2025 the White House revealed further details on its FY 26 budget proposal. Several programs are targeted for spending reductions and eliminations under a new K-12 Simplified Funding Program (SFP). The K-12 SFP merges 18 current competitive formula funding grant programs into one $2 billion formula…
The White House fiscal year 2026 budget proposal shows the Trump administration is pushing to completely eliminate Equity Assistance Centers (EACs) by eliminating $7 million in funding for the centers, slashing the nation’s oldest education technical assistance program entirely. The proposal claims the centers have “indoctrinated children” and that their…
The U.S. Department of Education (USDE) is investigating the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Fairfax County, a highly selective Virginia public school, for its 2020 admissions policy that aimed to increase student diversity by conducting a more holistic review of applicants. The USDE’s review of the…
On May 27, 2025 Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced the removal of the COVID-19 vaccine from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) immunization schedule for "healthy children and pregnant women." "We're now one step closer to realizing President Trump's promise to Make America…
