On Thursday, March 20, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order titled Improving Education Outcomes by Empowering Parents, States, and Communities calling on U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon to "take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Department of Education and return authority over education to the…
In a March 6, 2025 lawsuit, the attorneys general for California, Colorado, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York and Wisconsin filed suit against the U.S. Department of Education (USDE) alleging the department “arbitrarily” and “improperly” terminated the grants. A subsequent March 10th temporary restraining order by the U.S. District…
U.S. House Republicans are proposing a federal tax credit that would allow donors to fund private school tuition for students nationwide, saying the plan would empower parents to choose schools that best fit their children’s needs. The Educational Choice for Children Act of 2025, promoted during a March 11th House…
On March 11, 2025, the U.S. Department of Education (USDE) announced a massive reduction in force. The most recent cuts, coupled with the previously accepted employee “buyouts,” has eliminated almost 1,900 employees, which drops the employee count from 4,133 when the new administration took over to the current number of…
According to the Advocacy Institute, a nonprofit focused on improving the lives of people with disabilities, the U.S. is on pace to see the number of students with disabilities, ages 3-21, jump by about 1 million students between 2021 and 2025. Pre-K-12 grade schools gained 539,617 students eligible for Individuals…
Proposals in at least five states (Oklahoma, Indiana, Texas, Tennessee and New Jersey) are challenging a long-established legal precedent that guarantees a free public education to children regardless of their immigration status as they either seek to block students who lack permanent or temporary legal status from attending public schools…
On March 5, 2025, the nation’s largest educator union filed suit to challenge the U.S. Department of Education’s(USDE) directive to cease diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). The lawsuit is in response to a strict Feb. 14 Dear Colleague letter (DCL) that educators and education policy experts worried would severely curb student…
In one of her first orders of business, On March 5, 2025 U.S. Department of Education (USDE) Secretary Linda McMahon has opened an Office for Civil Rights (OCR) investigation of the District of Columbia Public Schools for alleged failures to meet the needs of students with disabilities. The investigation will…
On March 3, 2025, three teacher preparation groups filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland seeking to overturn funding cuts to teacher training programs that were made by the U.S. Department of Education (USDE). The plaintiffs (American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, National Center…
Measles infections in several states have school and health officials concerned as fears grow of possible widespread outbreaks. The potentially fatal disease had been declared eradicated in the U.S. in 2000. Sadly, vaccine skeptics, fed by misinformation by conspiracy theorists, have caused vaccination rates to decline, causing complacency and raising…
