Passaic County approves first use of 2024 law letting school districts bypass voters, guaranteeing $44.9 million in bonds for Little Falls expansions.
New Jersey requires K-12 schools to teach Latino and Hispanic history starting in 2026-2027 school year, joining mandates on Black, LGBT, and Holocaust education.
Newark school board rejects Superintendent Roger León’s contract extension to 2030 after five-hour hearing on student achievement gaps, racism concerns, and transparency demands.
New Jersey community colleges launch statewide fundraising campaign as 39% of students report food insecurity and federal SNAP cuts threaten additional aid.
New Jersey pays school districts only 60% of the special education reimbursements state law requires as costs surge 55% for out-of-district placements, prompting task force bill.
Education Department orders Fairfax County schools to investigate abortion claims after already withholding millions over transgender bathroom policy, threatening district with total loss of $167 million in federal funding.
Florida transfers $66 million college property to Trump library foundation that will house Qatar plane retrofitted by taxpayers at hundreds of millions in costs before transferring to Trump after presidency.
Des Moines school superintendent resigns after claiming U.S. citizenship on employment forms despite 2024 deportation order, following ICE arrest and state license revocation.
Trump announces Harvard deal requiring $500 million for trade schools, contradicting university leaders who said days earlier they have ‘no idea’ about talks, as White House pursues debarment proceedings.
Education Department orders Minnesota to strip titles from transgender athletes and issue apology letters to competitors, threatening federal funding cuts over state policy allowing participation in girls’ sports.
Trump administration initiates rare debarment process to cut Harvard off from federal funding across all agencies 26 days after court order restored $2.7 billion in grants.
Des Moines school board puts Superintendent Ian Roberts on unpaid leave after state revokes license following ICE detention that revealed final removal order and unauthorized work authorization despite background checks by district and state licensing board.
Educators in Iowa, South Carolina and Indiana file separate lawsuits after losing jobs over Kirk assassination comments, each claiming First Amendment violations.
Des Moines school board places Superintendent Roberts on paid leave one day after ICE arrest revealed May 2024 deportation order district never knew about.
Federal appeals court blocks Trump’s attempt to strip union rights from Pentagon K-12 teachers by labeling them national security workers.
Sixteen states sue HHS after agency threatens to strip $35 million in sex ed funding over lessons mentioning transgender students.
House Republicans propose renaming career training Pell Grants as “Trump Grants” despite Rhode Island opposition to changing the 45-year-old name.
Oklahoma schools chief Walters resigns with year left in term to lead anti-union teacher group aiming to “destroy” teachers unions.
The FCC moves to reverse a Biden-era rule providing internet hotspots to students, citing internet safety rules that the program already follows.
The Education Dept. moves to strip $24M from three major school districts, targeting their policies supporting transgender and Black students.
A federal judge orders the Trump administration to restore over $500 million in UCLA health grants suspended over claims of antisemitism.
A West Point professor files a First Amendment class-action lawsuit, alleging a free speech crackdown followed a Trump executive order.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed laws banning law enforcement from wearing face masks and accessing schools 12 days after the Supreme Court allowed roving immigration patrols.
The Education Dept. gives Harvard a 20-day ultimatum to produce documents for its probe into the university’s continued use of race in admissions.
Texas A&M President Mark Welsh resigns 10 days after a viral classroom video on gender content sparked a successful ouster campaign by top state Republicans.
The Education Dept. unites 40 conservative groups to create ‘patriotic’ civics curriculum despite a federal ban on such influence.
Oklahoma education chief Ryan Walters accused schools of hypocrisy for skipping his Charlie Kirk moment of silence while hosting ‘pride parades’.
A coalition of university groups sued the Trump administration, calling its demand for $1 billion and policy changes at UCLA unconstitutional coercion.
Trump uses an executive order to shift federal public school funds to private vouchers, sidestepping congressional authority.
The Trump administration reallocates nearly $500 million to HBCUs and tribal schools, just days after defunding other minority college grants as racially discriminatory.
UC Berkeley provided the Trump administration the names of 160 students and staff for a federal investigation into campus antisemitism.
With the governor’s backing, Florida’s education commissioner is investigating state teachers for social media posts celebrating Charlie Kirk’s death.
After Sen. Marsha Blackburn called for her removal, Middle Tennessee State University fired an assistant dean for stating she had ‘zero sympathy’ for Charlie Kirk.
At least six historically Black colleges and universities canceled classes and locked down campuses nationwide following a coordinated wave of threats the FBI is investigating.
New Mexico becomes the first state to offer universal free childcare, expanding a program credited with reducing poverty.
Two federal judges blocked an Education and HHS Dept. policy issued in July that required immigration verification for families to access Head Start.
The Education Dept. cuts $350 million from minority-serving colleges, labeling the programs discriminatory two months after the Justice Dept. abandoned their legal defense.
A divided Supreme Court permits a transgender South Carolina student to use the boys’ restroom, ruling the state failed to justify an emergency stay.
A federal judge blocks a Trump administration rule cutting immigrant access to Head Start and health clinics in 20 states that challenged the policy.
Conservative activist Charlie Kirk is fatally shot during a campus event in a killing Utah’s governor calls a “political assassination.”
Trump directs the Education Department to issue new school prayer guidance, claiming students are indoctrinated with anti-religious propaganda.
Texas’s state education agency changes guidance that blocked school nurses from most care, including bandages, days after the law’s author called the rule “insanity.”
Florida’s surgeon general says no study is needed for his plan to end all school vaccine mandates, a policy he previously likened to ‘slavery’.
A West Point alumni group abruptly cancels an award for Tom Hanks, a Biden supporter lauded for his military films, citing a need to prepare officers for war.
Northwestern University’s president resigns months into an $800 million federal funding freeze imposed by the Trump administration.
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr is moving to end a school Wi-Fi hotspot program after a similar legislative ban from Sen. Ted Cruz passed the Senate but stalled in the House.
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to unfreeze more than $2 billion in Harvard grants, ruling the move was unconstitutional retaliation to coerce university policy changes.
Florida Gov. DeSantis and his surgeon general moved to end all vaccine mandates, targeting decades-old requirements for polio and measles in schools.
Texas AG Ken Paxton uses a new school prayer law to endorse the Lord’s Prayer just weeks after a court struck down a Ten Commandments mandate.
Two northern Virginia school districts serving more than 207,000 students sued the Education Dept. for freezing millions in funds over their transgender student policies.
