On April 4, 2025, in a 5-4 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court (Court) granted the Trump administration’s emergency request to maintain a freeze on millions of dollars in federal teacher training grants. The administration’s emergency application, filed on March 26th, asked the justices to vacate a district court judge’s order…
According to K-12 Dive, the Trump administration is encouraging states and districts to expand school choice options by using already existing avenues under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), including Title I funds earmarked for low-income school populations. In fact, in a March 31 letter to chief state school…
On April 4, 2025, the U.S. Department of Education (USDE) rescinded the liquidation of hundreds of millions of dollars in emergency pandemic funds that were previously approved for extensions for the spending. The unexpected decision notified state education leaders in a letter that said they are responsible for laying out…
On April 3, 2025, the U.S. Department of Education (USDE) announced it was canceling a fiscal year 2025 grant application for a technical assistance center that supported postsecondary transition services for students with disabilities saying that the decision was part of a comprehensive review to ensure “competitions align with the…
Despite an overall increase in school shootings in recent years, a school shooting database funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is the latest target of President Donald Trump’s attempts to downsize the government. The research was part of the now-cancelled Terrorism and Targeted Violence Database, which tracked domestic…
On April 1, 2025. in a move to save $1.8 billion through mass layoffs in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). the agency closed five Office of Head Start regional offices in Boston, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and Seattle. The closed offices will be consolidated into…
In a March 31 letter to chief state school officers, the USDE, as per the Trump administration policies, encourages states and districts to expand school choice options by using already existing avenues under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), including Title I funds earmarked for low-income school populations. The…
In a March 26, 2025 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court (Court) decided in Bondi v. VanDerStok that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has the authority to regulate ghost guns as it does other firearms. Ghost guns are homemade guns assembled from kits purchased online and used…
On March 28, 2025, the U.S. Department of Education (USDE) released a statement regarding a Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) sent on the same day by Education Secretary Linda McMahon to education leaders claiming that states and school districts are violating privacy laws by “hiding critical information, such as a child’s…
On March 21, 2025. Democrats on the U.S. House Education and Workforce Committee introduced a resolution calling for transparency and information from the Trump administration and U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon on their move to close the U.S. Department of Education (USDE). The resolution requests unredacted copies of all…
