Texas Senate panel advances bill banning DEI in K-12 public schools
A priority bill filed in the Texas Senate seeks to extend the state’s ban on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives to K ...
Fact Check Team: Education Department cuts workforce in move toward state control
The Department of Education announced significant layoffs this week, reducing its workforce by approximately half.
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Colorado is facing a budget shortfall. Advocates say that shouldn’t stop progress to boost school funding.
Colorado lawmakers are fully focused on figuring out next year’s budget. But a coalition of advocates say that shouldn’t stop ...
Education department chaos is already affecting Sacramento students. Will it get worse?
Tuesday’s layoffs largely affected the Federal Student Aid office, which saw one of the biggest slashes to its staff. Vargas ...
Trump administration opens investigations at more than 50 universities, including MIT, as part of anti-DEI campaign
The Education Department announced the new investigations one month after issuing a memo warning America’s schools and ...
Fresh off sparring with CT legislators, Lamont under attack from town leaders
Fresh off sparring with the General Assembly, Gov. Ned Lamont now finds himself in a conflict with cities and towns. The Connecticut Conference of Municipalities recently launched a campaign ...
Big cuts at Education Department's civil rights office will impact vulnerable students for years
The latest cuts further compound funding and staffing shortages that have plagued the Office of Civil Rights. The effects of ...
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Illinois Governor JB Pritzker Rallies Educators in Defense of Public Education Amid Sweeping Federal Budget Cuts
Governor JB Pritzker rallies against federal education budget cuts, highlighting their impact on Illinois schools and ...
Big cuts at the Education Department’s civil rights office will affect vulnerable students for years to come
The CRDC originated in the late 1960s as required by the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The data questionnaire, which poses questions about civil rights concerns, is usually administered to U.S. public ...
WA officials challenge Education Department firings
Still, the state's superintendent of public schools said there would be a “much bigger impact” if Congress or the executive ...
California Has an Income Gap Problem
California's wealth divide has reached one of the highest levels in the nation, according to Census Bureau data.