According to the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) in a July 23, 2025 statement, the Trump administration violated the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 by withholding funds meant for early childhood education Head Start programs. GAO cited several actions taken by the Trump administration from January through April that strained…
On July 21, 2025 twenty states and the District of Columbia sued the Trump administration in the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island, challenging the administration’s decision earlier this month to restrict publicly funded programs — including those related to education — based on immigration status. The…
On July 18, 2025, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) will now release the federal funding for after-school and summer programs that districts and states expected to begin accessing July 1 but had been frozen by the OMB. The $1.3 billion for 21st Century Community Learning Centers was under…
On July 17, 2025, ten Republican senators made a similar plea that had previously been made in a July 10 letter by 32 Democratic senators to unfreeze over $6 billion in funds being withheld by the Office of Budget Management (OMB). In their plea, the GOP senators stated that they don’t believe the over…
During a July 14, 2025 session at a legislative summit hosted by the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) and the Council of Administrators of Special Education (CASE), special education professionals from across the country urged the federal government to make investments in student mental health, citing the dire need for…
On July 15, 2025, a letter signed by a dozen federal special education leaders from Republican and Democratic presidential administrations since the 1960s was sent to Congress urging legislators to reject any efforts to move oversight of special education services out of the U.S. Department of Education (USDE). The letter…
On July 15, 2025, it was announced that career and technical education (CTE) is among workforce development programs to be jointly administered by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) and the U.S. Department of Education (USDE). According to the announcement, the management of key federal workforce development programs will begin…
On July 14th, 24 states and the District of Columbia sued President Donald Trump, the U.S. Department of Education (USDE) and the White House’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for withholding over $6 billion in federal education funding for the upcoming school year. A statement by one of the…
In a July 14 statement, Peggy Carr, the former commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), said the nonpartisan education statistics agency cannot fulfill its statutory responsibilities in its current state. According to Carr, “It is impossible for three, five, or even a dozen people to fulfill the…
On July 14, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to proceed with laying off nearly half of the staff at the U.S. Department of Education (USDE). The decision in New York v. McMahon enables the USDE’s reduction in force (RIF) initiated in March as the original question…
