Cobb County, Georgia, superintendent pulls Nobel laureate Toni Morrison’s 56-year-old novel “The Bluest Eye” from school libraries after reading only excerpts, with no review committee.
Federal judge blocks DHS rule capping international students at four years hours before it took effect, saying its national-security rationale “borders on the absurd.”
Justice Department sues Hawaii, Arkansas, Utah and DC over in-state tuition for undocumented students, completing suits against every state with such laws, 25 total.
New York Mayor Mamdani opens free year-round 2-K childcare for 2,000 toddlers, expanding to 12,000 next fall, as some providers still await city contract payments.
California Gov. Newsom signs 13 youth online safety laws, banning personalized feeds and autoplay for kids under 16 and requiring AI chatbots to verify users’ ages.
Justice and Education departments accuse UC Berkeley Law of favoring Black applicants over white and Asian ones, at a school where 51 of 1,128 students are Black.
Federal judge permanently bars West Point from making professors seek approval to publish or speak, a rule adopted a month after Trump’s “un-American” ideas order.
Texas education board approves high school social studies curriculum labeling early Islamic campaigns “brutal” and blaming 9/11 on “Radical Islam” rather than specific terrorist groups.
Trump administration drafts rule paying married stay-at-home parents from a $12 billion child care fund now serving mostly single working mothers, with no new money, the New York Times reports.
Los Angeles schools quietly barred all students from generative AI on district devices this year, board says, as New York City blocks it through eighth grade.
Treasury moves to strip tax-exempt status from up to 18,000 schools that consider race in admissions, invoking a 1983 ruling against a college that banned interracial relationships.
New York City bars nearly 600,000 public school students through eighth grade from using generative AI for a year, as Mayor Mamdani rejects the tech industry’s “inevitable” framing.
Justice Department sues Kansas City, Kansas, schools over transgender guidance it says hides students’ transitions from parents, calling it the first lawsuit of its kind.
Maryland awards $28.5 million to electrify school and transit buses and add EV chargers, including 35 ports at 5 apartment complexes, as gas prices climb.
Federal judge rules unconstitutional the immigration provision Rubio used to deport foreign students for criticizing Israel, in a case won by Stanford’s student newspaper.
Justice Department says it will appeal the dismissal of its antisemitism suit against Harvard 2 weeks after a judge found the claims rested on one school year plus 3 later incidents.
US Attorney Pirro’s special grand jury questions DC teachers about truancy and graduation rates in a rare federal probe of how the city supervises its youth, the Post reports.
Judge blocks Florida International University from punishing students who silently protested campus police working as ICE agents, citing 60 years of precedent.
Dare County, North Carolina, brings urgent care into schools, letting sick students in grades 6-12 see a doctor by telehealth in the building.
California to stock every public and charter school with free rescue inhalers for 3 years for the 1 million kids with asthma.
68,000 northwest Indiana customers endure a 9th day without power after storms that killed 7, with full restoration in Gary not expected until Tuesday.
Omaha superintendent bars police from carrying electric shock gloves in schools after officers used the devices ICE plans to buy on 2 students.
Delaware appropriates $27 million for low-income families to book summer camps early, fixing state aid that arrived after spots filled.
Judge blocks HHS from converting the Teen Pregnancy Prevention program to abstinence-only teaching after it canceled 53 evidence-based grants worth $67 million.
DOJ whistleblowers tell Congress the university antisemitism probes worked backward from predetermined findings, with attorneys pressured after finding no violations at Brown.
Texas families ask the Supreme Court to strike the state law requiring Ten Commandments displays in every public school classroom.
Voting rights coalition sues New Hampshire to restore school-issued IDs for registering and voting, arguing the repeal deliberately targets young voters.
Kindergarten vaccine exemptions hit a record 4.2% as MMR coverage falls to 92.4%, well below the threshold needed to prevent measles outbreaks.
Judge dismisses the Trump administration’s antisemitism lawsuit against Harvard, calling the cited incidents too isolated to show institutional civil rights violations.
New York City eliminates all childcare fees for 22,000 voucher families as Mamdani takes another step toward promised universal care.
Seven FIU students sue after the university demanded apology videos for a silent anti-ICE protest, withholding their degrees unless they comply.
North Carolina prints three mental health crisis numbers on student IDs for grades six through college this fall under a new state budget provision.
Westbrook, Maine approves free unlimited bus passes for 700 high schoolers after finding students living in poverty walk up to 40 minutes to school.
Federal judge orders a Virginia school board to strip the Confederate names it restored in 2024, ruling the reversal violated Black students’ civil rights.
DOJ finds Duke Law intentionally used race in admissions through essay tags correlated with race, threatening suit if the university refuses a settlement.
DOJ and a Louisiana school board end 61 years of desegregation oversight dating to a 1964 suit whose original parent plaintiffs have died.
HHS proposes erasing 1,400 Head Start regulations, letting class sizes rise and dropping health screening deadlines for 700,000 of the nation’s poorest children.
Massachusetts Gov. Healey signs a law barring ICE from schools, hospitals, and courthouses as ICE detains a second-term monthly record 46,000 people in July.
Trump administration moves to strip Head Start standards for class sizes, medical screenings and literacy after failing to block the program’s funding.
Maine makes free community college permanent as new laws take effect, covering full tuition at all seven state community colleges.
Georgia father who gave his son the AR-15 used in the Apalachee school shooting gets 15 years on 27 counts.
Colorado awards $23.8 million to school meal programs in 131 districts, buying locally grown food and raising nutrition workers’ pay.
Education Department bars civil rights investigators from citing racial disparities in school discipline, advanced classes, or admissions as evidence of discrimination, skipping public comment.
Federal agencies admit in court they used keyword searches for diversity and gender to cancel nearly $2 billion in University of California research grants.
Michigan Gov. Whitmer signs her final education budget, funding her new Every Child Reads plan with $502 million as the state ranks 44th in literacy.
Justice Department investigates whether Chinese-funded Harvard scholarships restricted to foreign students illegally discriminate against Americans, its latest front against the university.
Faculty groups sue Texas Tech over classroom limits on race and gender they say ban teaching Plato, Dred Scott facts, and Holocaust history.
Appeals court rules Florida’s Stop WOKE Act unconstitutional at state universities, with a Trump-appointed judge writing the state cannot puppeteer every professor it pays.
Disability and education groups sue the Education Department and OMB for withholding nearly $2 billion in congressionally appropriated research funds set to expire.
New York City will open a $1,000 college savings account for every public school kindergartner, the largest universal program of its kind in the country.
