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The layoffs represent a significant escalation of Trump’s efforts to reduce the department’s role in education
Experts say there are a few big barriers to ICE raids at schools. And keeping students at home due to immigration enforcement fears carries its own risks.
Aunque los agentes de inmigración pueden realizar arrestos en escuelas, los expertos afirman que es difícil ya que hacerlo podría generar una fuerte reacción política.
I study early childhood education. Defunding this research will have far-reaching effects.
The executive order would be the culmination of the president’s attacks on the agency that date back to his 2016 campaign.
The American Federation of Teachers held a “Protect Our Kids” national campaign to rally support for public education and protections for programs that fund services for students with disabilities and low-income students.
Linda McMahon says the department should refrain from ‘overreach’ and return power to states. President Donald Trump has vowed to dismantle the agency.
Now confirmed as education secretary, the ex-pro wrestling executive must grapple with a slippery task: overhaul an agency that Trump says he wants to dismantle.
The U.S. Education Department has never withheld funds as a result of a civil rights investigation — yet.
Standing up for children with disabilities has been a primary role of the Education Department’s civil rights office
Trump’s Education Department threatened the federal funding of schools and colleges with diversity practices.
The Trump administration has said it’s cutting waste in education research. Families and schools have a different take.
Rufo popularized the idea that CRT had infiltrated American schools. Now his social media posts appear to be driving cuts at the Education Department.
After clearing the Senate education committee on a party-line vote, Linda McMahon will face a full Senate vote to become President Trump’s education secretary.
Practices such as essays that allow students to discuss their ethnic background and admissions policies that de-emphasize test scores could represent illegal discrimination, an Education Department letter said.
Democratic senators wanted details about Trump’s intentions toward K-12 schools. McMahon deflected many questions — including whether schools might risk their federal funding by teaching standalone African American history courses.
Trump’s education secretary pick likely earns hundreds of thousands from the bonds, which are popular among wealthy individuals.
Only Congress can officially shut down the agency. Yet cuts to research, low staff morale, and Linda McMahon could all play a role in the president’s push to reduce its footprint.
One canceled contract tasked researchers with finding ways to help students struggling in math due to pandemic learning disruptions.
‘The pandemic has not only driven test scores down, but that decline masks a pernicious inequality that has grown,’ one author of the new report said.