According to a lawsuit filed October 10, 2025 by the Global Village Academy Collaborative, President Donald Trump’s $100,000 fee for new H-1B visas risks worsening the nation’s teacher shortage by keeping affected schools from hiring teachers from other countries. The Global Village Academy Collaborative is a public nonprofit that oversees…
On October 7, 2025, the U.S. Senate confirmed Kimberly Richey as the next assistant secretary for civil rights at the U.S. Department of Education in a 51-47 vote along party lines. The approval came as part of a resolution allowing senators to consider for confirmation Richey and over 100 other…
As the U.S. Department of Education (USDE) changes the way things have been done, states and school districts have pushed back by filing lawsuits. Historically, the USDE and its funding recipients have usually collaborated to resolve civil rights complaints, but recently that has not been the case. As a result,…
As the government shutdown moves forward, many are wondering what impact it will have on K-12 schools. The shutdown officially commenced at midnight EST on October 1st when the new fiscal year was to begin. Initially, the shutdown is expected to have fairly imperceptible impact on schools and school districts,…
According to an investigation by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (USCCR), a persistent shortage of special education teachers nationwide is leading to a lack of supports and services needed to help students with disabilities thrive in schools. The investigation into special educator shortages comes amid an increase in the…
According to a September 29th ruling by the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the U.S. Department of Education (USDE) can move forward with plans to cut half of its Office for Civil Rights (OCR) staff as litigation against the reductions proceeds. The decision overturns a lower court’s order requiring…
According to notices to be published in the Federal Register on September 30, 3035, after having canceled grants that had congressionally approved funding for the School-Based Mental Health Services Grant Program and the Mental Health Service Professional Demonstration Grant Program for not aligning with Trump administration priorities, the U.S. Department…
In March 2025, a Trump administration executive order directed that the U.S. Department of Education (USDE) be closed to the "maximum extent appropriate." So, as the transfer of day-to-day management of career and technical education (CTE) programming from the USDE to the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) continues, CTE and…
NAPSA joined a coalition of NASISP member organizations providing the U.S. Department of Education (USDE) with recommendations to help mitigate shortages of specialized instructional support personnel (SISP), NASISP is a coalition of national professional organizations whose members provide and support a variety of school-based prevention, early identification, and intervention services that…
On September 6, 2025, the Consortium for Constituents with Disabilities Education Task Force (CCD) provided comments regarding the U.S. Department of Education’s (USDE) proposed information collection for the mandatory Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) for school years 2025-26 and 2027-28. Comment items included:-Reconsider and include data disaggregation on nonbinary students.…
