Chalkbeat--New Jersey school segregation case: Plaintiffs ask higher court to step in...'
Education Dive--‘Many, many’ other states next: DOJ sues Maine over transgender athlete policies...'
NY Times--A.C.L.U. Sues Defense Department Schools Over Book Bans...'
NPR--Families say school civil rights investigations have stalled after federal cuts...'
Education Week--Which States Ban or Restrict Cellphones in Schools?...'
Education Week--What Should Teachers Do When Students—or Parents—Ask for a Better Grade?...'
Education Dive--School’s in session for SCOTUS: 3 K-12 cases to watch in April...'
MyCentralJersey.com--Education Secretary Linda McMahon confuses AI with A1, sauce brand capitalizes on blunder...'
NPR--As special ed students are integrated more at school, teacher training is evolving...'
Education Week--What Might Happen to State Testing Under the Trump Administration?...'
Chalkbeat--Trump’s anti-DEI funding threat hit like an earthquake. This is what’s happened since...'
Education Dive--Bills in Congress detail path to closing the Education Department...'
The Hechinger Report--International students may be among the biggest early beneficiaries of ChatGPT...'
| Star Ledger--Trump mocks the disabled, now he threatens disability rights | Opinion...' |
Philadelphia Inquirer—Trump’s funding cuts could scuttle work to revive Philly’s beleaguered school libraries...'
NY Times--Teachers Worry About Students Using A.I. But They Love It for Themselves...'
Washington Post—Trump administration to pull Maine K-12 funding over trans athlete dispute...'
NPR--DOGE abruptly cut a program for teens with disabilities. This student is 'devastated'...'
Education Week--See Which States Are Telling Trump Their Schools Don’t Use ‘Illegal’ DEI...'
Chalkbeat--State attorneys general and Gov. Shapiro sue Trump administration for halting COVID school aid...'
Education Dive--Will end to federal Office of Ed Tech mean an end to equity?...'
Education Week--School Leaders Look Out for Students as Trump Steps Up Immigration Enforcement...'
Chalkbeat--Michigan state superintendent signals he won’t sign Trump’s anti-DEI certification...'
Chalkbeat--Colorado won’t comply with Trump anti-DEI demand, state schools chief says...'
Education Dive--Education Department’s DEI order postponed as case pends...'
Philadelphia Inquirer—Pa. tells schools they don’t need to make changes amid Trump’s DEI funding threats...'
NY Times--Kennedy Offers Qualified Support for Measles Vaccination...'
Education Week--Moms for Liberty Has a ‘University.’ What Is It Teaching?...'
Chalkbeat--Illinois schools chief pushes back against Trump administration’s anti-DEI push...'
Education Dive--Teens are embracing AI — but largely not for cheating, survey finds...'
Washington Post--Feds end a civil rights agreement on treatment of Native students, citing DEI...'
Education Week-- Defending Ed. Dept. Cuts, Linda McMahon Says It’s Time to ‘Do Something Different’...'
Education Dive--The Education Department’s approach to civil rights enforcement is changing. Here’s how...'
Chalkbeat--Effort to adapt Philly schools to rising temperatures threatened by Trump...'
Education Dive--Do superintendents seem younger? It’s not your imagination...'
The Hechinger Report--Knitting, cheerleading, fishing: This is what a cellphone ban looks like in one school district...'
NJ Monitor--‘Really scared’: Parents of kids with disabilities confront Education Department chaos...'
NY Times--The Pandemic Is Not the Only Reason U.S. Students Are Losing Ground...'
Washington Post—N.Y. tells Trump administration it won’t comply with anti-DEI school order...'
NPR--Supreme Court sides with administration over Education Department grants...'
Education Week--Groups Sue Over Trump’s Cuts to Education Department Research Arm...'
Education Dive--‘New sheriff in town’: DOJ to enforce anti-trans Trump orders...'
The Hechinger Report--NAEP, the Nation’s Report Card, was supposed to be safe. It’s not...'
NY Times--How the Trump Administration Might Target D.E.I. in Public Schools...'
Wall Street Journal--The Schools Reviving Shop Class Offer a Hedge Against the AI Future...'
Education Week--Will Fired Federal Workers Consider Teaching? Some Schools May Soon Find Out...'
Education Dive—Op-Ed--The value of cybersecurity: How a New Jersey district protects student data...'
Washington Post--Naval Academy removes 400 books after defense leaders’ DEI orders...'
NPR--How the Education Department helps students with disabilities get an education...'
Education Week--What Makes Curriculum ‘High-Quality’?...'
Education Dive--Districts encouraged to use Title I flexibility for school choice...'
Edutopia--What an Award-Winning School Leader Has Learned From Shadowing His Students...'
Asbury Park Press--Murphy's education 'COVID slush fund is over, says U.S. education press secretary...'
Wall Street Journal--The Democrats Who Are Fighting—and Winning—Against Trump in Court...'
Education Week--Teacher Burnout Is Real. What’s to Blame—and How to Keep It at Bay...'
Education Week--See Which Schools Trump’s Education Department Is Investigating and Why...'
The Hechinger Report--Special education and Trump: What parents and schools need to know...'
Education Week--Trump Admin. Tells States, Schools How to Use Title I for School Choice...'
Education Week--Why Trump’s Move to Shift Special Ed. to HHS Is Rattling Educators...'
Education Dive--School shooting database slashed in Trump downsizing...'
Education Week--Linda McMahon Abruptly Tells States Their Time to Spend COVID Relief Has Passed...'
Education Week--McMahon Says Schools With ‘Gender Plans’ Could Be Violating Federal Privacy Law...'
Chalkbeat--Schools must share child gender identity info with parents, Trump Education Department says...'
InsiderNJ--GOP Lawmakers Push to Ban Woke Curriculum in Public Schools...
Education Dive--What do the massive Education Department layoffs look like? See for yourself...'
Edutopia--AI Tutors Can Work—With the Right Guardrails...'
NY Times--Trump Challenges California on Transgender Parental Notification...'
NPR--NPR speaks to a former Education Secretary about dismantling the department, arrests...'
Education Dive--Schools earn a ‘D+’ for infrastructure...'
NY Times--Trump Asks Supreme Court to Let Him Cancel Grants to Teachers...'
New Jersey Mmonitor--Federal cuts squeeze already-struggling food banks, school lunch programs...'
Education Week--Religious Charters, LGBTQ+ Books, and More: A Winter Legal Roundup...'
Chalkbeat--NY blames U.S. Education Department changes for $363 million reimbursement delay...'
Education Dive--10 Trump changes education leaders need to know about...'
Insidernj--Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin Continues the Fight to Stop Trump from Shutting Down the U.S. Department of Education...'
NY Times--As Crises Grip Colleges, More Students Than Ever Are Set to Enroll...'
NPR--How the Education Department cuts could hurt low-income and rural schools...'
Education Week--Teacher Shortages Are Improving—With Two Big Exceptions...'
Chalkbeat--‘We’re not changing our policies’: NYC school officials stand firm after Trump executive order...'
Education Dive--OCR to Maine: Define sex by reproductive systems or lose funding...'
The Hechinger Report--Students try using AI to write scholarship essays — with little luck...'
The Redord--NJ school principals fear Trump bid to end Education Department...'
NJ Monitor--Only Congress can close the Department of Education, and Republicans are going to try...'
NPR--Trump says Education Department will no longer oversee student loans, 'special needs'...'
Education Week--Reading Comprehension Teaching Has Improved—But Not Nearly Enough...'
Chalkbeat--A big change for kids with disabilities is underway, Trump says. Critics say it’s against the law...'
Education Week--Op-Ed: ‘Diversity’ Isn’t a Dirty Word: Why Politicians Are Scapegoating DEI...'
NY Times--‘It Sounds Strange, Doesn’t It?’ Trump Muses About Gutting the Education Dept...'
Education Week--Trump Admin. Gives Maine 10 Days to Bar Trans Athletes—or Risk School Funding...'
Chalkbeat--Op-Ed: COVID changed the class of 2025. It changed their teachers, too...'
Washington Post--Trump to sign order aimed at closing Education Department...'
Education Dive--More than 8 in 10 districts to keep or expand summer learning...'
NY Times--Judge Orders Education Dept. to Restore Some Grants to Schools...'
Chalkbeat--10 ways COVID changed American schools...'
Education Dive--What will NCES layoffs mean for the Nation’s Report Card?...'
Star Ledger--Mother of autistic teen who died on school bus urges lawmakers to pass ‘common-sense’ safety bill...'
The Record--Federal Education Department layoffs include civil rights lawyers for NJ...'
NJ Monitor--Panel clears bill that would require schools to buy anti-choking devices...'
NY Times--Op-Ed: For So Many Children, This Is What Reading Feels Like...'
Education Week—OP-Ed: The Wrong People Are Driving Our Education Policy...'
Education Dive--Democrats demand details on Education Department layoffs...'
The Hechinger Report--How Trump is disrupting efforts by schools and colleges to combat climate change...'
NJ Globe—Op-Ed: Gopal: Changes to School Funding Formula Explained...'
Education Week--Ed. Dept. Says SEL Can 'Veil' Discrimination. What Does This Mean for Schools?...'
Education Dive--How to help students overcome ‘learned helplessness’...'
The Hechinger Report--Chaos and confusion as the statistics arm of the Education Department is reduced to a skeletal staff of 3...'
NY Times--Teenagers Say Girls Are Equal to Boys in School, or Are Ahead...'
NY Times--Democratic Attorneys General Sue Over Gutting of Education Department...'
Washington Post—How Education Department layoffs hit student loans, testing, civil rights...'
Education Week--Political Divides Shape Educators’ Views on English Learners’ Rights...'
Chalkbeat--Education Department layoffs gut its civil rights office, leaving discrimination cases in limbo...'
Education Dive--Teacher training grants temporarily reinstated in 8 states...'
NPR--What parents, teachers and school choice groups think of Education Department cuts...'
Education Week--Can Trump Do That? Which Actions on Education Are Legal, and Which Ones Aren’t...'
Chalkbeat--How a Republican plan to cut universal free school meals could affect 12 million students...'
Education Dive--AASA chief: Assessments need to reflect the world students live in now...'
The Hechinger Report--Reading comprehension loses out in the classroom...'
NY Times--Education Department Fires 1,300 Workers, Gutting Its Staff...'
Education Week--Trump Admin. Cuts Program That Brought Local Food to School Cafeterias...'
Education Dive--Republican lawmakers tout proposal for national private school choice...'
The Hechinger Report--Schools are surveilling kids to prevent gun violence or suicide. The lack of privacy comes at a cost...'
NJ Monitor--Bill advances to restrict students’ use of cellphones in school...'
Education Week--Trump’s Cuts to Ed. Spending Will Hit Efforts to Improve Reading and Math. Here’s How...'
Education Dive--Trump’s Education Department changes could lead to systemic ‘chaos’...'
The Hechinger Report--10 lives, 5 years later: How the pandemic altered the futures of these parents, kids and educators...'
Asbury Park Press--Asbury Park schools: This is a 'safe space' in wake of President Donald Trump's orders...'
The Atlantic--When America Persecutes Its Teachers...'
Education Week--Teacher-Prep Programs Sue Trump to Get Their Funding Restored...'
Chalkbeat-- ‘Stop the cuts!’: Educators, school activists rally to protect federal funding for public education...'
Education Dive--Half of young children own a cell phone or tablet...'
NY Times--A Black Studies Curriculum Is (Defiantly) Rolling Out in New York City...'
Washington Post--Senate blocks ban on transgender athletes, as Trump pushes forward...'
NPR--Linda McMahon has been confirmed as Trump's secretary of education...'
Education Week--Trump Admin. Says Race-Based Classes Don’t Automatically Break the Law...'
Education Dive--Are schools ‘soft censoring’ books out of fear?...'
The Hechinger Report--Former Trump commissioner blasts DOGE education data cuts...'
Washington Post—Education Dept. softens controversial guidance on race and schools...'
Wall Street Journal--The Schools Reviving Shop Class Offer a Hedge Against the AI Future...'
Education Week--A Formula for Better Teacher Recruitment and Retention...'
Chalkbeat--With an ally in the White House, Moms for Liberty renews its fight against a longtime target...'
Education Dive--Concerns mount over potential loss of Medicaid funds for schools...'
NPR--Rollback of diversity efforts leaves teachers wondering about effects on Black History Month...'
Education Week--Education Department Launches ‘End DEI’ Website to Solicit Complaints About Schools...'
Chalkbeat--Kids’ disability rights cases stalled as Trump began to overhaul Education Department...'
Education Dive--Concerns mount over potential loss of Medicaid funds for schools...'
| The Record--Op-Ed: The Anthony Knox fallout shows what's wrong with HS sports in 2025 | Cooper...' |
NJ Monitor--Eyeing a friendly Supreme Court, Republicans push for the Ten Commandments in schools...'
The Atlantic--The Teen-Disengagement Crisis...'
NPR--Trump suspends the head of 'The Nation's Report Card'...'
Education Week--Measles Is on the Rise as Vaccinations Drop. Where Does That Leave Schools?...'
Chalkbeat--Educators sue to block enforcement of anti-diversity civil rights guidance...'
The NY Times--The Department of Education Threatens to Pull the Plug on Colleges...'
Education Week--School Districts Navigate a Dizzying Pace of New Trump Orders...'
Chalkbeat--Educators sue to block enforcement of anti-diversity civil rights guidance...'
Education Dive--Special education enrollment climbs to nearly 8M...'
Asbury Park Press--Thousands of New Jersey students aren't fluent in English. See what experts fear it means...'
NPR--Republicans' love/hate relationship with the Education Department...'
Education Week--How Many Students May Be Affected by Trump’s Immigration Policies?...'
Education Dive--Maine faces Title IX investigation over transgender athletic policies...'
Asbury Park Press--Jackson to merge high schools, sue New Jersey Dept of Education after Lakewood gets loan...'
NY Times--The Teacher in Room 1214...'
Washington Post—Latest Trump guidance on race has schools scrambling amid ‘intense fear’...'
Education Week--Why So Many Students Struggle With Math Anxiety—and How to Help...'
Education Dive--Court upholds district policy protecting students’ right to choose name, pronouns...'
Education Week--Voters Have a Message for Lawmakers About Education: Stop the Blame...'
Chalkbeat--Chris Rufo’s social media posts appear to be driving Education Department cuts...'
Education Dive--What could schools expect under the new COPPA Rule?...'
NJ Monitor—GOP-led lawsuit targeting Biden admin rule could dismantle disability protections...'
NPR--Schools, colleges have 2 weeks to ban DEI. An education expert warns it won't be easy...'
Education Week--Why Boys Don’t Want to Become Teachers and What Schools Can Do About It...'
Education Dive--17 states claim Section 504 overreach...'
The Hechinger Report--Tracking Trump: His actions on education...'
Washington Post--Court decision allows DOGE to continue accessing student data...'
Education Week--Trump Administration Slashes Millions in Teacher-Training Grants...'
Education Dive--OCR tells schools to cease race-based programs...'
The Record--Trump wants to close the US Education Department. What does that mean for NJ schools?...'
NJ Monitor--Schools and public buildings turn to AI gun detection software...'
NY Times--Education Dept. Gives Schools Two Weeks to Eliminate Race-Based Programs...'
Washington Post--Court decision allows DOGE to continue accessing student data...'
Education Week--Is It Ethical to Use AI to Grade?...'
Chalkbeat--School diversity efforts could violate civil rights, Trump administration says...'
Edutopia--7 Learning Myths Your Students Probably Believe...'
The Hechinger Report--DOGE’s death blow to education studies...'
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