On January 29, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at finding ways to cut federal funding to schools that teach certain topics related to race, sex, gender or politics. The order calls for the incoming secretary of Education to "provide a strategy to the President" to end…
The U.S. Supreme Court (Court) has agreed to hear a case that questions whether students filing disability discrimination claims must prove that public school officials acted with discriminatory intent through “bad faith or gross misjudgment.” In A.J.T. v. Osseo Area Schools, a Minnesota student, Ava, and her parents are challenging…
On January 28, 2025, a U.S. District judge paused the U.S. Government’s temporary freeze on federal funding just minutes before it was set to take effect at 5 p.m. that day. The Washington, D.C. judge blocked the Trump administration’s directive for one week. The legal challenge came from a coalition…
A January 27, 2025 memo issued by the federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) serves as a Q&A document to shed light on the impacts regarding the pause in federal funding. While this is a developing situation, the clicking on this attachment will help provide clarification that Medicaid is…
On January 24, 2025, the U.S. Department of Education (USDE) announced that it is eliminating its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, a move tied to President Donald Trump’s directives to purge DEI from the federal government. The USDE said it has “removed or archived” hundreds of outward-facing documents, including…
In a January 24, 2025 statement, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) rescinded all guidance that said school districts could violate civil rights law by implementing book bans. The statement said that removing “age-inappropriate” books from schools is a decision that should be made by parents…
Education associations and immigration advocacy groups have been evaluating what a January 21st U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) directive that lifted the practice of avoiding immigration enforcement at locations where students gather would actually mean to schools. In a message posted to its website on Jan. 21, The School…
On the day of his inauguration, President Donald Trump signed several executive orders to eliminate efforts to provide protections for LGBTQ+ students and increase educational access for Hispanic, Native American, and Black students. In one executive order, Trump directed the U.S. government to only recognize two sexes — male and…
On January 21, 2025, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) lifted the practice of avoiding immigration enforcement at locations where students gather. In fact, according to DHS, schools are no longer off limits for immigration enforcement operations since elementary and secondary schools, colleges, hospitals, and churches will no longer…
On January 14, 2025, the U.S, House voted 218-206 to ban transgender girls and women from girls’ sports in federally-funded schools by amending Title IX, the federal civil rights law that prohibits sex discrimination in educational institutions. This bill, the first federal anti-trans law brought to a vote in the…
