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.
Justice Department sues Harvard for withholding race-related admissions records, escalating a retaliation campaign that has already targeted $2 billion in research grants.
Florida House votes 92-14 to ban the term “West Bank” in schools and state agencies, requiring use of “Judea and Samaria” instead.
Trump administration agrees not to withhold K-12 school funding over DEI programs after 19 state attorneys general sue.
San Francisco’s 6,000 public school teachers strike for the first time in nearly 50 years, closing all 120 schools and leaving 50,000 students without classes.
Immigration court terminates the government’s attempt to deport Tufts Ph.D. student Rümeysa Öztürk, ruling the administration failed to prove its case against the pro-Palestinian activist it arrested for co-authoring a student newspaper op-ed.
Pentagon cuts all military training and fellowships at Harvard, with Hegseth calling officers’ Ivy League education “globalist and radical ideologies” and promising reviews of other schools.
Education Department investigates Tufts and National Student Clearinghouse for allegedly sharing student data with political groups to influence elections, citing no specific organizations or evidence.
Governor Walz demands Homeland Security Secretary Noem disclose how many Minnesota children are in federal detention, calling the administration’s immigration sweep “chaos” that has left classrooms half empty.
South Carolina’s measles outbreak reaches 876 cases with 800 unvaccinated, as a separate outbreak hospitalizes four patients at a Florida university campus.
Trump demands $1 billion from Harvard over antisemitism claims and calls for criminal charges after a federal judge blocked his $2.2 billion funding freeze in September.
Idaho reports five probable measles cases in one unvaccinated Canyon County household, with the state ranking last in the nation for kindergarten vaccination coverage.
Car displaying Trump flag hits student at anti-ICE protest outside Nebraska high school after circling multiple times and revving engine; girl was alert and talking afterward.
South Carolina measles outbreak reaches 789 cases with 570 people in quarantine, hundreds of students sent home from Upstate schools.
Abbott orders Texas state agencies and public universities to stop sponsoring new H-1B visas until after the 2027 legislative session, citing program exploitation concerns.
Reagan-appointed judge rules pro-Palestinian academics can seek court relief if immigration status changed as retribution, says Noem and Rubio engaged in “unconstitutional conspiracy.”
Former Des Moines superintendent Ian Roberts pleads guilty to falsely claiming U.S. citizenship and illegal firearms possession, four months after ICE detained him in his school-issued vehicle.
Trump administration drops appeal of ruling that blocked DEI memos threatening to pull funding from universities and K-12 schools.
University of Pennsylvania refuses federal demand for lists of Jewish faculty, staff and students, calling the request “unconstitutional” and citing history of governmental persecution of Jews.
Education Department delays plan to garnish wages of defaulted student loan borrowers, reversing course one week after sending initial notices to begin collections.
Texas A&M cancels graduate ethics course three days into semester, demanding professor specify in advance which days he would discuss race and gender.
Education Department opens 18 Title IX investigations into schools with policies allowing transgender athletes, one day after Supreme Court heard arguments on state bans.
Trump signs bill allowing whole and 2% milk in school lunches for first time since 2012, with new law exempting milk fat from saturated fat calculations.
Justice Department apologizes for “mistake” in deporting Massachusetts college student despite court order, but argues error should not affect her case or require her return.
Missouri waiting on $25.7 million in federal child care payments as advocacy group reports no state has received funding approval this week; daycares can’t make payroll.
South Carolina measles outbreak becomes nation’s largest with 310 cases, 256 unvaccinated; state epidemiologist warns “this could go on for many, many more weeks.”
Trump calls for 10% cap on credit card interest rates starting Jan. 20, one year after inauguration; banks warn 14 million households could lose access to credit.
Texts reveal UVA board members coordinated with Youngkin to end transgender care, dissolve DEI office; one wrote “This is war!” about professor defending diversity programs.
Minneapolis Public Schools offers optional remote learning through Feb. 12 after ICE killed mother, chased suspect onto high school property.
Federal judge blocks Head Start anti-DEI requirements after HHS demanded providers exclude 197 terms from applications including “Black,” “disability,” “tribal,” and “mental health.”
Texas A&M orders philosophy professor to remove Plato from syllabus, bans books with LGBTQ main characters from core classes as 200 courses flagged or canceled.
Trump administration’s new dietary guidelines recommend red meat, full-fat dairy, and beef tallow while dropping alcohol limits, with Agriculture Secretary citing support for ranchers.
Austin Peay State University will pay professor Darren Michael $500,000 and reinstate him after firing him for social media post about Charlie Kirk, admitting it failed to follow tenure process.
Justice Department sues Virginia over in-state tuition for unauthorized immigrants, third such lawsuit after California and Illinois cases this fall.
Duke cuts $299 million through buyouts and building closures in response to federal funding cuts, with 599 staff taking buyouts and 45 laid off.
Trump administration will begin garnishing wages of defaulted student loan borrowers in January, first seizures since pandemic pause began nearly six years ago.
University of Oklahoma removes graduate teaching assistant who failed student’s Bible-based essay responding to gender research article, citing “arbitrary” grading.
University of Kentucky law professor challenging use of IHRA antisemitism definition after removal from classroom; university’s investigator is Project 2025 contributor.
