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Coverage shows President Trump and his administration are pushing to dismantle or greatly shrink the U.S. Department of Education and to return many responsibilities to states and other federal agenci...
Teachers who urge students to join protests operate in a legally fraught zone: school employees acting "within the scope of their job duties" can face limits on First Amendment protections and distric...
State and federal appropriations and budget proposals since 2020 produced widespread cuts and targeted reductions affecting higher education: 27 states cut higher-education funding in FY2020 or FY2021...
Teachers’ unions are major political actors that spend money, endorse candidates, and mobilize voters to shape education policy; their preferences tend to align with positions because of overlapping p...
Available reporting names several education and anti-hunger organizations as endorsers of recent child-nutrition bills: the Food Research & Action Center (FRAC) and the National Education Association ...
PhD admissions and doctoral training across U.S. universities — including education PhDs — are under pressure as federal education and research funding is being cut or restructured, and many instituti...
Federal funding provides roughly 8–14% of K–12 education revenues nationally, with the largest federal shares coming through student‑nutrition, Title I (low‑income schools), and IDEA (special educatio...
has taken a series of executive and policy actions aimed at reshaping how American history is presented—targeting institutions from to K–12 curricula and partnering with conservative groups to promote...
that most effectively reduce Islamophobia combine sustained education, interfaith engagement, and local advocacy: toolkits and school-based curricula that teach about Muslim identities, interfaith ini...
School-district “” or “safe haven” policies are locally crafted pledges—often modeled on templates from teacher unions like the —that generally bar routine immigration-enforcement activity on school p...
Major, national mainline Protestant denominations did not formally endorse the in the 1920s and, according to contemporary press and later historians, were publicly critical of it through denomination...
Multiple recent national polls find large majorities of Americans saying they favor rules that would exclude transgender women from competing in women’s sports, with surveys clustered in the mid-70s t...
Educators and education organizations have responded to President Trump’s remarks and policies about teachers with sustained public criticism, organized mobilization, and legal and political pushback—...
Educators’ testimonials and endorsements have visibly shifted public perception and electoral outcomes by framing candidates as either protective of public schools or hostile to educators’ priorities;...
When coworkers report a veteran teacher sleeping in class but investigators find no documentary evidence, schools still have a range of administrative and employment options — from informal corrective...
Available reporting in the provided set does not focus on controversies over Donald Trump’s personal academic transcripts or claimed degrees; instead, recent disputes center on his administration’s re...
Coverage about “reclassification” responses in 2025–2026 is patchy in the provided documents: U.S. national teachers’ unions are mobilizing broadly around federal policy fights tied to Project 2025 an...
Teaching gender identity in elementary schools is presented by international experts and education advocates as a route to safer, more inclusive schools and improved mental-health outcomes for gender-...
The Biden-era Department of Education’s November 18, 2025 reshuffling — moving offices and programs into interagency agreements with Labor, HHS, Interior and State — was explicitly justified by admini...
The available analyses show that as of 2024 the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funded a wide, spanning K‑12 education, Home and Community‑Based Services (HCBS) in Medicaid, local nonprofit relief and...