Daily Headlines: Education Supreme Court deadlocks 4-4 on nation’s first religious charter school in Oklahoma, leaving ban in place after Justice Amy Coney Barrett recuses herself due to ties with Catholic Church’s legal adviser. May 23, 2025 View Details Federal judge blocks Trump administration from revoking legal status of international students nationwide after more than 4,700 had visas canceled in April based on FBI arrest database searches. May 23, 2025 View Details Education Department investigates Virginia’s elite Thomas Jefferson High School for alleged discrimination against Asian American students despite Supreme Court upholding admissions policy that reduced Asian enrollment from 73% to 54%. May 23, 2025 View Details Trump administration finds Columbia University violated Jewish students’ civil rights by showing “deliberate indifference” to harassment since October 7, 2023, including failure to investigate swastika vandalism. May 23, 2025 View Details Trump administration revokes Harvard’s ability to enroll international students after university refuses to turn over five years of foreign student conduct records including protest footage. May 23, 2025 View Details Judge blocks Trump from firing 1,300 Education Department employees after staff cuts closed seven civil rights offices and eliminated entire FAFSA oversight team. May 23, 2025 View Details RFK family foundation awards Maine Gov. Mills human rights prize for defying transgender policies of administration where RFK Jr. serves as HHS Secretary. May 20, 2025 View Details Justice Department announces False Claims Act will be used against universities with diversity initiatives by citing alleged antisemitism violations. May 20, 2025 View Details Thousands of California teachers rally outside SpaceX headquarters to protest Trump-Musk education budget cuts threatening special education and meal programs. May 18, 2025 View Details Oklahoma adds debunked 2020 election fraud claims to high school history curriculum. May 18, 2025 View Details Indian Ph.D. student granted injunction against deportation after DHS tried to revoke her visa over minor traffic violation from four years ago. May 16, 2025 View Details Justice Department accuses Harvard of defrauding government by violating Supreme Court’s affirmative action ruling after freezing $2.2 billion in federal funding. May 16, 2025 View Details Kennedy claims he is protecting Head Start funding weeks after Trump budget sought to eliminate the program. May 15, 2025 View Details Trump administration cuts another $450 million in grants to Harvard, bringing total frozen funding near $3 billion in escalating fight over campus control. May 14, 2025 View Details Harvard sends letter to Education Dept. denying partisan bias claims and warning of government overreach. May 13, 2025 View Details House Republicans propose $5 billion private school voucher program funded by donors who would receive 100% tax credits, diverting resources from public schools. May 13, 2025 View Details Tufts doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk arrived in Boston Saturday after federal judge orders her release from six weeks of ICE detention for writing opinion piece critical of Israel. May 11, 2025 View Details Columbia University suspends over 65 students following pro-Palestinian protest in library where demonstrators scrawled threatening messages. May 11, 2025 View Details Federal judge orders release of Turkish Tufts student detained over Israel criticism, saying detention ‘chills speech of millions’. May 10, 2025 View Details Alabama student detained for 6 weeks granted self-deportation to Iran at immigration court hearing. May 9, 2025 View Details Education Dept investigates Penn over ‘inaccurate’ foreign donation disclosures, demands all records. May 9, 2025 View Details Haverford College president grilled by GOP reps over refusal to share student discipline details, with some threatening her job and federal funding. May 8, 2025 View Details Columbia University protest leads to more than 70 arrests after students occupy library. May 8, 2025 View Details Federal judge keeps Georgetown scholar’s wrongful arrest case in Virginia, rejecting Trump administration’s attempt to move it to Texas. May 8, 2025 View Details Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk to be transferred to Vermont after six weeks in ICE detention in Louisiana. May 8, 2025 View Details Federal judge blocks Trump plan to slash funding for library, minority business, and labor mediation agencies. May 7, 2025 View Details Judge bars Trump administration from withholding over $1 billion in pandemic relief for struggling students. May 7, 2025 View Details Trump administration opens antisemitism probe into UWash after protests. May 7, 2025 View Details Columbia will lay off nearly 180 researchers after Trump administration cuts $400 million in federal grants. May 7, 2025 View Details Trump administration ends Ready to Learn grant, halting funding for PBS Kids educational content. May 7, 2025 View Details Trump administration demands court-enforced decree to control Columbia’s admissions and hiring. May 6, 2025 View Details Trump admin blocks future federal grants to Harvard unless it meets the president’s demands. May 6, 2025 View Details Trump administration settles lawsuit and restores Maine school meal funds after state refused to ban trans girls from girls’ sports. May 3, 2025 View Details Trump administration backs off plan to defund Head Start but cuts raise fears of backdoor elimination. May 3, 2025 View Details Trump threatens to revoke Harvard’s tax-exempt status again despite school calling move illegal. May 3, 2025 View Details Rev. Amos Brown says Smithsonian notified him it may return his civil rights artifacts during Trump-ordered review of African American museum. May 2, 2025 View Details Trump order rewrites college accreditation rules, opening door for ideological accreditors in higher ed. May 2, 2025 View Details Unsigned HHS report commissioned by Trump promotes psychological treatment over gender-affirming care for trans youth. May 2, 2025 View Details Judge blocks Trump from dismantling federal library agency after mass firings, grant cancellations. May 2, 2025 View Details Trump budget proposes 23% cut to domestic spending, 13% boost to defense, and elimination of dozens of social programs. May 2, 2025 View Details One day after HHS cut $1B in school mental health grants, agency mistakenly shares list of 150 child welfare research grants marked for termination. May 2, 2025 View Details Trump administration ends $1 billion in school mental health grants, citing conflict with Biden-era priorities. May 1, 2025 View Details Harvard president apologizes and pledges reforms after task force reports expose campus antisemitism and anti-Arab bias. April 30, 2025 View Details Trump administration investigates Chicago Public Schools over Black Student Success Plan, alleging race-based discrimination. April 30, 2025 View Details Trump administration orders Penn to reverse Lia Thomas records and apologize or lose $175 million in federal funding. April 29, 2025 View Details Trump administration expands Harvard investigation to include Harvard Law Review over race-based article selection and membership. April 29, 2025 View Details Rubio defends State Department reorganization cutting human rights and diversity offices and seeking 15% staff reductions. April 28, 2025 View Details University leaders form private alliance to resist Trump administration’s attacks on academic independence and research funding. April 28, 2025 View Details Education Department opens civil rights probe into NY rule forcing schools to drop Native American mascots after Massapequa Chiefs fight. April 26, 2025 View Details Trump administration cancels $400 million in AmeriCorps grants, cutting 41 percent of the agency’s 2025 budget. April 26, 2025 View Details ICE reactivates student & exchange visa records, restoring legal status for hundreds of international students after lawsuits force policy pause. April 26, 2025 View Details Education Department investigates UC Berkeley for failing to disclose Chinese funding tied to Tsinghua research institute. April 26, 2025 View Details Trump orders sons to fire Trump Org. lawyer over Harvard ties and lawsuit against administration. April 25, 2025 View Details Judge blocks Trump order to defund public schools over DEI programs. April 25, 2025 View Details Over 200 college leaders denounce Trump’s campus crackdown as ‘government overreach’ in open letter. April 24, 2025 View Details Federal government fights judge’s order to move jailed Tufts student from Louisiana to Vermont after arrest over Gaza essay. April 24, 2025 View Details Trump orders K-12 schools to embrace AI and scrap equity-based discipline rules targeting racial disparities. April 24, 2025 View Details EEOC texts Columbia and Barnard employees asking if they are Jewish or Israeli, then probing for antisemitism. April 24, 2025 View Details Trump orders crackdown on college accreditors to reshape colleges around ideology, not education. April 24, 2025 View Details NSF terminates 400 active grants tied to DEI and misinformation, citing new Trump-era priorities. April 23, 2025 View Details Columbia students and alumni chain themselves to campus gates after ICE detains Palestinian activists with university ties. April 22, 2025 View Details Judge blocks deportation of two Oregon college students, citing lack of justification for revoked visas and ordering they remain in state. April 22, 2025 View Details Harvard sues Trump administration over $2.2 billion funding freeze tied to campus freedom of speech. April 22, 2025 View Details Education Department to resume collections on 5 million defaulted student loans starting May 5. April 22, 2025 View Details Trump administration to cut another $1 billion from Harvard health research funding after university rejects White House demands. April 21, 2025 View Details Naval Academy cancels frequent lecturer Ryan Holiday’s talk an hour before start after he refused to cut slides on book ban. April 20, 2025 View Details Trump demands decade of foreign funding records from Harvard as clash escalates. April 19, 2025 View Details Federal judge orders ICE to transfer detained Tufts student and fast-track hearing on due process violations. April 19, 2025 View Details Trump officials fired 43 NIH science advisers—38 of them women or people of color—in a mass purge with no explanation. April 17, 2025 View Details DHS threatens to end Harvard’s ability to host international students unless it hands over protest and disciplinary records. April 17, 2025 View Details Trump escalates retaliation, asks IRS to revoke Harvard’s tax-exempt status after $2.2B funding cuts. April 17, 2025 View Details Military families sue DOD, say Trump administration censored base school education and banned diverse books April 17, 2025 View Details DOGE orders AmeriCorps to cut disaster relief corps, stripping young workers of jobs and college aid. April 17, 2025 View Details Army and Air Force libraries ordered to review books for DEI content after Navy pulls nearly 400 titles. April 16, 2025 View Details Trump threatens Harvard’s tax-exempt status day after cutting $2B in funding, also demands school apologize. April 16, 2025 View Details Trump freezes $2.2 billion in Harvard funding after school rejects federal demands on discipline, protests, and academic oversight. April 15, 2025 View Details State Dept investigation found no evidence linking Tufts student to terrorism before ICE detention. April 14, 2025 View Details Trump budget would eliminate Head Start, ending preschool and child care for low-income families. April 13, 2025 View Details Judge orders Trump administration to restore USDA funds for Maine school meals after anti-trans funding cutoff. April 13, 2025 View Details Trump plan halves NASA science, shutters Goddard, and cancels Mars and Venus missions. April 12, 2025 View Details Trump moves to cut Maine’s K-12 school funding over a handful of transgender athletes. April 12, 2025 View Details Musk’s DOGE hijacks computerized federal grant system, blocking agencies from posting $500B in awards. April 12, 2025 View Details Three Florida universities move to deputize campus police for ICE enforcement under DeSantis-Trump directive. April 12, 2025 View Details After firing staff and canceling nearly all humanities grants, the Trump administration will use federal arts funding to build its long-promised “Garden of American Heroes”—a patriotic sculpture park celebrating historical figures in “realistic” form. April 11, 2025 View Details Trump administration seeks consent decree to place Columbia University under federal court oversight as funding talks continue. April 11, 2025 View Details Massachusetts schools chief defies Trump DEI order, says state complies with civil rights law and will keep promoting diversity. April 10, 2025 View Details Judge gives Trump officials 24 hours to produce evidence against Mahmoud Khalil or drop deportation case, warning she’ll dismiss charges Friday. April 9, 2025 View Details Trump officials freeze $1.8 billion in funding for Cornell and Northwestern as punishment for alleged civil rights violations and campus protests. April 9, 2025 View Details Maine sues Trump admin for stopping school lunch funding, calls federal action “blatantly illegal” April 8, 2025 View Details Appeals court restores DOGE access to sensitive personal data at Education, Treasury, and OPM, overriding privacy ruling challenged by unions and veterans. April 8, 2025 View Details Trump administration removes Harriet Tubman and slavery references from National Park Service Underground Railroad webpage. April 7, 2025 View Details New York refuses Trump administration’s demand to end DEI in schools, dismisses threat to cut federal education funding. April 6, 2025 View Details Trump administration revokes visas of 5 UMass Amherst students without warning to university. April 6, 2025 View Details NIH plans new autism research as Trump and Kennedy revive vaccine skepticism. April 5, 2025 View Details Supreme Court, in narrow vote, lets Trump freeze $65M in teacher-training grants tied to diversity efforts. April 5, 2025 View Details Judge says Columbia must give 30 days’ notice before handing student records to Congress in antisemitism probe. April 5, 2025 View Details Naval Academy library removed books by Nobel laureates Toni Morrison and Elie Wiesel, Maya Angelou’s memoir, and John Lewis’s autobiography in DEI purge. April 5, 2025 View Details Trump administration issues written demands to Harvard: drop DEI, restrict protests, cooperate with DHS, or lose billions in federal funds and contracts. April 4, 2025 View Details Education Department tells schools to end DEI programs that ‘favor one race over another’ or lose federal funds. April 4, 2025 View Details Trump moves to cut $510 million in federal funding to Brown University over campus protest response. April 4, 2025 View Details Trump administration suspends dozens of federal research grants to Princeton as Ivy League crackdown expands. April 2, 2025 View Details Naval Academy flags 900 books and removes nearly 400 before Hegseth visit as Trump admin DEI purge widens. April 2, 2025 View Details Trump appointee puts entire staff of federal library and museum agency on leave after DOGE takeover. April 1, 2025 View Details Zeldin shuts down one-room EPA museum he calls a shrine to climate change and environmental justice, slams omission of Trump-era policies. April 1, 2025 View Details ICE says Minnesota student detained last week had visa revoked over prior DUI. April 1, 2025 View Details ICE detains international grad student in Minnesota, sparking outcry from university and state officials March 29, 2025 View Details Columbia’s interim president steps down after policy changes aimed at restoring $400M in federal funding slashed by Trump March 29, 2025 View Details Utah enacts first-in-nation ban on pride flags in schools and government buildings as governor lets bill become law without signature. March 29, 2025 View Details Rubio says he revoked Fulbright scholar Rumeysa Ozturk’s visa over pro-Palestinian activism, calls student protesters “lunatics” and confirms 300 visa cancellations. March 28, 2025 View Details University of Michigan shuts down flagship DEI office, cancels $250M plan after Trump crackdown. on campus diversity. March 28, 2025 View Details The administration filed an emergency petition at the Supreme Court to cancel teacher training grants it claims promote DEI, critical race theory, and anti-racism. March 27, 2025 View Details Trump’s Education Department investigates Oregon school for allowing trans athlete to compete under state law that protects gender identity. March 26, 2025 View Details Judge indefinitely blocks Musk’s DOGE from accessing Education Department data on union members, student borrowers, and veterans, calling the mass data sharing likely illegal. March 25, 2025 View Details Trump moves student loans to Small Business Administration and children’s special needs programs to HHS after ordering McMahon to close Education Department. March 22, 2025 View Details Columbia caves to Trump for $400m, authorizes protest arrests and forces demonstrators to identify themselves. March 21, 2025 View Details Colorado Schools Close Thursday as Thousands of Teachers Rally Against $150M in Cuts March 21, 2025 View Details Trump signs long-threatened order to dismantle Education Department as Sen. Cassidy, a physician, vows legislation to fully abolish it. March 21, 2025 View Details Trump administration freezes $175M in federal funding to UPenn over transgender athlete policy, despite school following NCAA rules. March 20, 2025 View Details White House fact sheet confirms Trump’s plan to eliminate Department of Education March 20, 2025 View Details Attorneys release video of plainclothes agents arresting activist Mahmoud Khalil; agents refuse to identify themselves. March 16, 2025 View Details Oklahoma’s GOP-led education board approved social studies standards directing high school students to question the 2020 election, with language secretly added by Republican Supt. Ryan Walters before the vote. March 15, 2025 View Details A second Columbia University student who joined campus protests was arrested for overstaying her student visa. March 15, 2025 View Details The Education Dept announced more than 40 universities are now under investigation for allegedly excluding white and Asian American students. March 15, 2025 View Details Six GOP congressmen introduced a bill to bar Chinese nationals from U.S. student visas and exchange programs. March 15, 2025 View Details The White House told Columbia it must overhaul discipline and admissions policies over its alleged failure to protect Jewish students before restoring $400M in canceled grants and contracts. March 14, 2025 View Details Johns Hopkins Univ. has begun laying off more than 2,000 workers after the WH cut USAID funding for programs it administers. March 14, 2025 View Details The federal student loans website went offline midday Wednesday, later displaying a “Planned Maintenance” banner after hours of downtime. March 13, 2025 View Details Among the Department of Education layoffs: 7 of 12 civil rights offices will close, despite thousands of backlogged cases. March 13, 2025 View Details The USDA canceled $1 billion in funding for schools and food banks to buy locally sourced food. March 12, 2025 View Details A federal judge blocked the White House from cutting hundreds of millions in teacher training funds after eight states sued. March 12, 2025 View Details The Department of Education is firing 50% of workers, offices in NY, Boston, Cleveland, and Chicago to close. March 12, 2025 View Details The Education Dept. warned 60 universities, including Harvard and Yale, that they could face penalties from antisemitism investigations. March 11, 2025 View Details A Columbia University grad student who led protests against Israel was arrested by ICE and had his green card revoked for “circulating social media posts criticizing Zionism” and organizing a march. March 10, 2025 View Details Trump signs order to alter student loan forgiveness for public service workers. March 8, 2025 View Details Trump admin cancels $400M in grants and contracts to Columbia, blames antisemitism. March 8, 2025 View Details US State Department to launch “Catch and Revoke” AI program to scan foreign students for pro-Palestinian, Hamas sympathies and deport them for being at rallies or events. March 8, 2025 View Details Trump set to sign an order closing the Education Dept. as early as Thursday. March 7, 2025 View Details Trump threatens to deport or arrest college students over “illegal protests.” March 6, 2025 View Details Senate confirms Linda McMahon, former wrestling magnate and SBA head, as education secretary by a 51-45 vote. March 5, 2025 ttps://www.npr.org/2025/03/03/nx-s1-5307078/trump-cabinet-linda-mcmahon-confirmed-education Education Dept emails employees with one-day buyout offer ahead of “significant layoffs.” March 1, 2025 View Details A federal judge refused to block Musk’s employees from accessing Education Dept data February 24, 2025 View Details Ed Dept freezes thousands of civil right investigations in schools February 24, 2025 View Details Ed Secretary nominee Linda McMahon refused to say if a Black history class would be illegal, calling it hypothetical February 24, 2025 View Details Musk announces he cut 90 contracts totaling $900 million at the Education Dept February 23, 2025 View Details Trump says he has tasked Elon Musk with reviewing Pentagon and Education spending February 23, 2025 View Details A federal judge blocked the federal employee buyout offer February 23, 2025 View Details Trump signed an executive order that will cause K-12 schools and colleges to lose federal funds if they allow trans women to participate in women’s sports February 22, 2025 View Details 20 Musk employees at Education Dept will begin dismantling it from within before an executive order February 22, 2025 View Details
