Judge orders Oklahoma education board to reconsider revoking ex-teacher’s license over a banned-books QR code, citing former state schools chief Walters’ conflict of interest.
Oklahoma board blocks Jewish charter school despite 4-3 vote in favor, weeks after a federal judge ruled that rejecting it over religion violates the First Amendment.
Homeland Security proposes making colleges pay $70,000 for each international student in a work-training program, after a federal judge struck down its $100,000 H-1B fee.
Cornell trustees hire former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates to review the school’s response to an alleged fraternity gang rape, a day after thousands marched.
New York Mayor Mamdani starts moving 10,000-plus low-income children off the city’s child care voucher waitlist after 15 months frozen, with families paying nothing.
Thousands at Cornell march on its administration building over the university’s handling of an alleged 2024 fraternity gang rape, now before a state special prosecutor.
Federal judge keeps a jury’s $425,000 award to a Black Ottumwa, Iowa, teacher whose district failed to discipline students who repeatedly called him the n-word.
ProPublica reporters open private schools in two of three states, one for $45 and a flag in Arkansas, where an official suggests tapping taxpayer money.
Justice Department says UCLA’s law school illegally favored Black and Hispanic applicants over white and Asian students, its second such finding against UCLA.
New York Gov. Hochul names Attorney General James special prosecutor in alleged Cornell fraternity gang rape, sidelining the district attorney who declined charges in 2024.
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sues Harvard for faculty hiring records in its chair’s probe of alleged discrimination against white men.
Defense Secretary Hegseth stops military academies from granting civilian faculty tenure, saying “civilian academic norms” dilute their focus on “lethality.”
Education Department formally repeals Biden’s 2024 Title IX rule protecting LGBTQ+ students, skipping public comment, after courts struck it down in 2025.
Senate passes college sports overhaul 77-22, reining in athlete pay and limiting transfers, before recessing until the midterms.
Tompkins County, NY, district attorney reopens alleged fraternity gang rape case he declined to charge in 2024, after the woman sued seven men and Cornell.
California Gov. Newsom signs nine laws putting abortion pills on community college campuses and widening which abortions midwives, nurse practitioners and physician assistants can perform.
Trump moves to cancel $810 million Congress approved by running out the clock, as Republican Appropriations Chair Collins calls it a “clear violation” of law.
Federal judge rules Oklahoma can’t block a Jewish charter school over its religion, a step toward the nation’s first taxpayer-funded religious school.
Justice Department moves to end more than 50 school desegregation cases from the 1960s and 1970s, calling them “onerous and outdated.”
Federal judge permanently blocks Trump rule barring visa holders, Dreamers and other immigrants from Head Start and health clinics, saying it skipped required public input.
Connecticut funds about 28,000 free bus passes for high school students in 73 districts, allocated by free and reduced-price meal eligibility.
Florida administrative judge recommends dropping charges including gross immorality against Jacksonville teacher kept out of class a year over her post on Charlie Kirk’s killing.
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.