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Trump’s Push for More Admissions Data Collides with a Hollowed-out Education Department

From FedScoop The Trump administration wants the Education Department to collect more college admissions data, even as it slashes the very staff that ensures the statistics are credible and accurate.  From early childhood to K-12 and higher education, schools across the country have relied for decades on the Education Department’s data collections to inform policy.Continue reading “Trump’s Push for More Admissions Data Collides with a Hollowed-out Education Department”

AFGE Local 252: The Education Department is paying us millions not to work

From the Washington Post (by Sheria Smith and Brittany Coleman of AFGE Local 252) Three months ago, on March 11, we were laid off from our positions as civil rights attorneys for the Education Department by the education secretary and U.S. DOGE Service. But it wasn’t just the two of us — roughly 1,400 ofContinue reading “AFGE Local 252: The Education Department is paying us millions not to work”

Dallas Teachers Protest Impact of Federal Education Cuts, Vouchers

From Dallas Observer More than 200 public educators, teachers’ union members and education professionals marched a quarter of a mile under the scorching Texas sun to Sen. Ted Cruz’s Dallas office on Friday to protest recent national and state actions that they say “dismantle” the education system at several levels. The protest, organized by theContinue reading “Dallas Teachers Protest Impact of Federal Education Cuts, Vouchers”

GOP senators push for higher education overhaul in Trump agenda bill

From WLUC Upper Michigan’s Source Senate Republicans are calling for an overhaul of federal higher education programs in President Donald Trump’s “big beautiful bill” package. “Our experiment in paying everything with a federal loan did not work out well. Lots of kids with debt, universities without accountability, and a big bill for the taxpayer. We’reContinue reading “GOP senators push for higher education overhaul in Trump agenda bill”

Education Department pays over $7 million a month to employees forced to sit idle

From CNN The US Department of Education is paying more than $7 million a month to employees it has forced to go on leave, according to analysis from the American Federation of Government Employees Local 252, the union that represents department employees. The payments could continue for years amid a long court battle over cutsContinue reading “Education Department pays over $7 million a month to employees forced to sit idle”