Near the end of this month, the U.S. Supreme Court (Court) will hear three K-12 cases back-to-back in the last two weeks of April. On April 22nd, the Court will hear Mahmoud v. Taylor, a case brought against Maryland’s Montgomery County Board of Education over the LGBTQ+ inclusive language arts…
A draft preliminary 2026 federal budget by the Trump administration that is expected to be sent to Congress would eliminate Head Start. In fact, according to K-12 Dive, Head Start is among other initiatives targeted for termination that support low-income families and children — including the Low Income Home Energy…
According to NPR, on April 16, 2025 U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stated that autism is a rapidly growing "epidemic" in the U.S. and vowed to identify the "environmental toxin" he says is to blame, calling it "a preventable disease." In addition, he said…
On April 17, 2025, the U.S. Department of Education (USDE) announced that a severely diminished crew will administer and analyze the Nation’s Report Card (NAEP) as planned in 2026. According to U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon, “The Department will ensure that NAEP continues to provide invaluable data on learning…
According to a lawsuit filed in Maryland district court on April 16, 2025 by the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness (SREE), “Dramatic, unreasoned, and unlawful actions” taken by the Trump administration to significantly downsize the U.S. Department of Education’s(USDE) Institute of Education…
On April 16, 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a civil lawsuit against the Maine Department of Education, seeking to stop a policy allowing transgender students to compete on women and girls’ sports teams. In addition, the USDE is also reviewing the state’s federal funding and may retroactively…
On April 7th, immigration enforcement officers from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) attempted to enter two Los Angeles Unified School District elementary schools in search of students. After with their district leadership and legal counsel, school administrators turned away the agents. DHS said the officers left “without incident”…
A series of bills in Congress are aimed at closing the U.S. Department of Education (USDE). In the Senate, the Returning Education to Our States Act, outlines where each of the USDE’s responsibilities would be transferred. The bill also proposes to convert federal education funding into block grants, which it…
In the past six months, two babies in Louisiana have died of pertussis, the disease commonly known as whooping cough. In addition, Washington state recently announced its first confirmed death from pertussis in more than a decade, while Idaho and South Dakota each reported a death this year, and Oregon…
Nearly a quarter of a century ago, Congress formed the Office of Educational Technology (OET) within the U.S. Department of Education (USDE). Since then, the use of educational technology in schools has changed dramatically and exponentially. Now, with the demise of the OET, former OET employees fear the office’s progress…
