Education Department probes Smith College for admitting trans women, citing Title IX single-sex exception.
Education Department finalizes graduate loan caps eliminating Grad PLUS and excluding nursing, physical therapy, and social work from higher “professional” tier.
DOJ sues New Jersey to overturn 2013 and 2018 laws giving undocumented immigrants in-state tuition and financial aid at public colleges.
ICE releases Mississippi high school brothers detained at school bus stop with valid F-1 student visas after Republican Sen. Wicker’s office and Sen. Hyde-Smith’s office press the case.
South Carolina’s 200-day measles outbreak ends at 997 cases, the largest US outbreak in 35 years, with most victims unvaccinated children.
5th Circuit rules Texas can force public schools to post Ten Commandments, declaring a 1980 Supreme Court precedent against such displays no longer binding.
Trump administration fires two immigration judges who blocked deportations of pro-Palestinian students Rumeysa Ozturk and Mohsen Mahdawi.
Texas education board gives preliminary approval to required reading list that includes Bible texts after cutting Frederick Douglass and Frankenstein.
Library groups settle with DOJ to reverse Trump administration cuts to the only federal agency that funds U.S. libraries, restoring fired staff and canceled grants.
Minnesota school districts ask federal judge to restore immigration enforcement limits near schools after ICE operations drove attendance down 40%.
Education Department rescinds Obama and Biden era civil rights settlements requiring seven schools to protect transgender students from discrimination.
Federal judge blocks Trump order requiring colleges in 17 states to hand over seven years of race-based admissions data, calling the process “rushed and chaotic.”
Florida AG Uthmeier declares he won’t enforce the state constitution’s ban on public funding for religious institutions, arguing Christianity is central to national identity.
USDA kills 49 of 50 farm grants for underserved producers, costing Montana tribes nearly $15 million for land and training programs the agency labeled DEI.
Trump signs executive order threatening colleges’ federal grants if they don’t comply with NCAA rules on athlete transfers, eligibility and pay.
Federal judge orders University of Pennsylvania to turn over names of employees affiliated with Jewish organizations to the EEOC for its antisemitism investigation.
DOJ sues Minnesota over policies allowing transgender girls to compete in girls’ sports, threatening nearly $3 billion in federal education funding.
Federal judge dismisses DOJ lawsuit against Minnesota’s in-state tuition policies for undocumented students, ruling the state’s benefits are not based solely on residency.
Justice Department opens civil rights investigations into admissions at Stanford, Ohio State and UC San Diego medical schools, threatening federal funding.
Education Department abandons its headquarters of 45 years and moves into the shuttered USAID building after staff cuts leave 70% of the space empty.
Islamic private schools excluded from Texas’ $1 billion voucher program for months are accepted one day after a federal judge orders the state to let them apply.
Senate Democrats block Republican amendment to ban transgender athletes from women’s sports for the fourth time as GOP attaches it to voting restrictions bill.
Justice Department sues Harvard to recoup federal grants and cut off future funding, alleging the university failed to protect Jewish and Israeli students from harassment.
Treasury takes over $1.7 trillion federal student loan portfolio as Education Department dismantlement continues, with the agency already down half its workforce.
Bronx high school student jailed by ICE at a court hearing last May is released after nearly 10 months in a Pennsylvania prison, with his attorneys saying he was in the country legally.
Federal judge permanently blocks Arkansas Ten Commandments classroom mandate in six school districts, calling the law unconstitutional religious coercion.
Former Virginia National Guardsman who served prison time for trying to help ISIS, opens fire on ROTC classroom at Old Dominion University, killing an instructor and wounding two before students beat him to death.
Texas excludes every Islamic school from its $1 billion voucher program while approving Christian, Catholic and Jewish schools, prompting a religious discrimination lawsuit.
Seventeen states sue the Trump administration over a new survey requiring colleges to report years of student data broken down by race, gender and income.
Trump appoints Charlie Kirk’s widow to Air Force Academy board without announcement, weeks before it may vote on recommending her late husband for an honorary degree.
D.C. Bar files ethics complaint against DOJ Pardons Attorney Ed Martin for threatening Georgetown Law over DEI, then trying to derail his own disciplinary investigation.
Tennessee becomes the fourth state advancing a ban on the term “West Bank” in official documents, requiring “Judea and Samaria,” a term used only by the Israeli government.
Leaked group chat among top Florida International University campus Republican leaders contains the n-word over 400 times, calls for violence against Black people, and Nazi references.
U.S. military investigators believe American forces likely struck the Iranian girls’ school that killed 150 children on day 1 of the war.
Georgia jury convicts father of Apalachee High School shooter who bought son an AR-style rifle after deputies warned of possible attack threats.
ProPublica sues Education Department for hiding civil rights records as open discrimination investigations nearly doubled to 24,000 under Secretary McMahon.
Melania Trump chairs UN Security Council meeting on children in conflict two days after Iranian envoy says U.S. strikes killed more than 100 schoolgirls.
Supreme Court orders California schools to tell parents when children change names or pronouns, bypassing oral argument on its emergency docket.
Education Department hangs banner of assassinated conservative activist Charlie Kirk on its headquarters alongside Booker T. Washington and Catharine Beecher.
LAUSD board places Superintendent Carvalho on leave after FBI raids his home, district headquarters and a Florida residence tied to collapsed ed-tech company.
Mistakenly deported Babson College student refuses government flight from Honduras after learning feds plan to detain and re-deport her upon arrival.
Hegseth pulls Pentagon-sponsored military education programs from Princeton, Columbia, MIT, Brown, Yale, calling universities centers of “enemy ideologies.”
NYC Mayor Mamdani wins Trump backing for 12,000-unit federal housing project and a detained Columbia student’s release in one White House visit after bringing mocked-up newspaper front pages.
FBI searches home of Los Angeles school superintendent Alberto Carvalho and LAUSD headquarters under sealed warrant, with no charges or explanation disclosed.
DOJ sues University of California over alleged antisemitism at UCLA, weeks after dropping appeal of ruling that its $1.2 billion penalty against the school was unconstitutional.
Education Department transfers school shooting emergency grants and community schools oversight to HHS as McMahon continues dismantling the agency only Congress can legally close.
Kentucky Supreme Court unanimously strikes down the state’s charter school law, ruling it violates the constitutional requirement for a common school system overseen by elected boards.
Fifth Circuit lifts injunction blocking Louisiana’s Ten Commandments classroom law, allowing enforcement despite two prior courts ruling it unconstitutional.
Maryland’s two largest school districts face backlash for designating Eid al-Fitr as a snow makeup day, drawing criticism that Muslim holidays are treated as expendable.
University of North Texas silently removes an art exhibit critical of ICE, covering its windows and erasing it from university channels without explanation to the artist, students or faculty.
