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.
The Justice Department sues Rhode Island and Massachusetts over tuition breaks for noncitizen students, bringing to twelve the states it accuses of discriminating against U.S. citizens.
A federal judge blocks a Trump rule that would strip student loan forgiveness from public service workers whose employers the administration deems to have a “substantial illegal purpose.”
The Supreme Court rules 6-3 that states may bar transgender athletes from girls’ and women’s sports, upholding West Virginia and Idaho laws over Title IX and equal-protection challenges.
The Trump administration cancels 53 of 67 federal teen pregnancy prevention grants worth $68 million, calling the evidence-based programs misaligned with its priorities.
The Texas education board votes 9-4 to require Bible stories in public school reading lists and to rewrite K-8 history in ways that play down racial and cultural diversity.
FCC Chairman Carr opens a proceeding that could shrink or end E-Rate, the $2 billion program connecting schools and libraries to the internet, citing student screen time.
A federal judge blocks the Education Department’s rule narrowing which graduate degrees count as “professional,” restoring access to doubled federal loan limits for fields like nursing.
The Education Department’s inspector general finds that mass layoffs left the agency unable to perform dozens of legally required functions, with offices emptied of staff.
Los Angeles, the nation’s second-largest school district, bans screens for its youngest students and sharply caps device time for everyone else.
Senate education chair Bill Cassidy, a Republican, promises a July vote to block the Trump administration from shifting special education to RFK Jr.’s health department.
Oregon Governor Kotek signs a law guaranteeing every child under 5 a free monthly book, codifying the Dolly Parton Imagination Library statewide as the state fights some of the nation’s lowest reading scores.
Massachusetts commits $1 million to help at least 20 towns and school districts fix cybersecurity holes the state’s own free assessments uncovered.
The Education Department moves special education oversight to HHS and school civil rights enforcement to the Justice Department, advancing its own elimination.
A federal judge dismisses the University of Florida College Republicans’ free speech lawsuit over a deactivation that followed a member’s Nazi salute photo.
New Mexico judge throws out a Republican lawsuit against Governor Lujan Grisham’s universal childcare program, ruling the legislature already endorsed it.
The National Science Foundation suspends $21 million in UC Berkeley grants over undisclosed foreign funding from allied nations that several researchers say they never received.
Ball State pays $225K to settle health director’s ACLU suit, fourth Kirk-speech payout this year after Indiana AG Rokita amplified private post.
Education Department opens Title IX investigation of Loudoun County schools after district publicly warns federal agency already signaled it has reached conclusions.
25 states and DC sue Education Department over OBBBA graduate loan caps taking effect July 1, citing rural healthcare workforce strain.
Justice Department finds Yale School of Medicine intentionally discriminated by race in admissions and used “racial proxies” to evade Supreme Court’s affirmative action ban.
National Science Foundation suspended 18 UC Berkeley grants in April despite federal court injunction barring such cancellations.
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.
