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The NAACP is challenging the Trump administration in a new federal lawsuit that accuses the U.S. Department of Education of violating the civil rights of Black American students with its broad anti-DEI policies. In the lawsuit, filed in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, the nation’s oldest civil rights organization, joined by the Legal Defense Fund, targets […]
Mike Jacobson is the founding director of Empowerment Through Aviation (ETA), a nonprofit organization dedicated to introducing young women from Baltimore City Public Schools to the aviation industry. Jacobson’s role involves strategic leadership, program development, and community outreach to ensure that young people, particularly those from communities underrepresented in this field, have access to aviation […]
Sen. Andy Kim, D-N.J., spoke to a crowd of roughly 500 people during a packed town hall event in one of the state’s Republican-leaning districts. It was a bid by the first-term senator to both outline the consequences of Trump’s policy efforts and draw attention to the recent decrease in the number of Republican town […]
Students hold signs and chant during a March 13 rally in front of the U.S. Department of Education to protest budget cuts. Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images President Trump’s efforts to shutter the U.S. Department of Education are in full swing. On Thursday, he signed an executive action instructing U.S. […]
Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday that instructs the US education secretary, Linda McMahon, to start dismantling the Department of Education, seemingly attempting to circumvent the need to obtain congressional approval to formally close a federal department. The administration may eventually pursue an effort to get Congress to shut down the agency, Trump […]
Elon Musk declared last month that the federal government was engaged in “utterly insane” activity, claiming without evidence that it had distributed $100 billion to people without Social Security numbers. Two days after Mr. Musk’s comments, one of his key lieutenants, Steve Davis, began pressing the Social Security Administration for information. Mr. Davis called the […]
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order Thursday calling for the shutdown of the U.S. Education Department, according to a White House official, advancing a campaign promise to eliminate an agency that’s been a longtime target of conservatives. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity before an announcement.
A top teachers union has sued the US Department of Education after it stopped processing applications for affordable repayment plans of student loans last month and disabled the online application for the programs. The American Federation of Teachers, or AFT – one the country’s largest unions, representing 1.8 million workers – filed a lawsuit alleging […]
US Secretary of Education Linda McMahon says administration will work with the US Congress to abolish department. The United States Department of Education has announced it will lay off almost half of its employees as President Donald Trump moves to fulfil his campaign promise to dismantle the agency. The department said on Tuesday that it […]