An October 13, 2026 letter from two key Senate Appropriations Committee members says the U.S. Department of Education(USDE) is making it easier to cancel funding in future years. Those Democratic legislators, who are part of the Senate Appropriations Committee, accused the USDE of “frontloading” grants by making multiyear funding available…
On September 2, 2026, a bipartisan bill was introduced in the U.S. House that seeks to prevent the transfer of four U.S. Department of Education (USDE) offices to other federal agencies. Those USDE offices lead activities for special education, postsecondary education, Native American education, and elementary and secondary education. According…
On August 5, 2026, the U.S. Senate's Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee advanced four key children’s online safety bills. Those bills now head to the Senate floor for a vote. One of the bills, the bipartisan Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), addresses how to best protect youth online, particularly pertaining…
On July 30, 2026, the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) approved a bipartisan bill that would prohibit the U.S. Department of Education (USDE) from transferring four of its offices to other federal agencies. The legislation, S. 5046, would specifically block the outsourcing of USDE offices…
On July 30, 2026 he U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee plans to take up two bills next week that would prohibit the outsourcing of certain education programs from the U.S. Department of Education (USDE) to other federal agencies. One of them is a bipartisan bill that…
On July21, 2026, the House Education and Workforce Committee advanced a proposal to define “sex” as biological sex under Title IX. The Republican-led Title IX Clarification Act of 2026 seeks to codify a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling in West Virginia v. B.P.J. Those concerned with the marginalization of transgender…
On July 15, 2026, the U.S. House Education and Workforce Committee approved 10 Republican-led bills that are the first steps in eventually closing the U.S. Department of Education (USDE). The bills would codify several interagency agreements the USDE already has in place that move core education-related functions, but not the…
In a July 13, 2026 letter to federal legislators, 13 former federal officials who were responsible for overseeing special education implementation in states and districts urged Congress to reject the U.S. Department of Education’s (USDE) plans to move programs serving students with disabilities to another federal agency. The letter’s authors…
On June, 29, 2026, the U.S. House passed the Kids Internet and Digital Safety Act in a 267-117 vote. The proposed legislation would require additional safeguards for children and teens online, including an update to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) that would expand protections currently available to children…
On June 30, 2026, a coalition of disability and education organizations sued the the U.S. Department of Education (USDE) and the White House’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) over its withholding of almost $2B in USDE funds that were appropriated by Congress for education research, data collection, program evaluation,…
