Dana Goldstein

1 week ago | mahoningmatters.com | Dana Goldstein

A federal judge in Boston said Thursday morning that she would issue an order blocking the Trump administration’s efforts to prevent Harvard from enrolling international students. The ruling was a win, at least temporarily, for the university in its ongoing confrontation with the White House, which has waged an all-out battle to undermine Harvard’s finances and global influence. Graduates in Harvard Yard lined up to receive their diplomas Thursday, even as the university’s future was under attack.

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Dana Goldstein

Thousands of Harvard students will collect diplomas on Thursday morning, as the university's lawyers prepare to battle the Trump administration in a Boston federal courtroom over the right to enroll international students. The ceremonies planned in Harvard Yard will exhibit all the typical pomp and circumstance. But graduation week has already been darkened by President Trump's effort to undermine the university's financial health and global influence.

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Sarah Mervosh |Dana Goldstein

The court rejected a religious charter school, but conservatives may get much of what they want in a school voucher program that passed the House this week. A surprise Supreme Court ruling on Thursday prevented the nation's first religious charter school from opening in Oklahoma, in a 4-to-4 vote that seemed to put the brakes on a conservative movement to expand government funding for religious education. But the ruling may prove to be only a speed bump for the conservative education agenda.

2 weeks ago | ourcommunitynow.com | Dana Goldstein

Share The Trump administration announced on Thursday that it was investigating the admissions system at an elite public high school in Fairfax County, Va., which has been accused of discriminating against Asian American students to favor other racial groups.The administration has repeatedly argued that the Supreme Court’s ban on affirmative action in college admissions should also apply to K-12 education.

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Dana Goldstein

1 day agoCNN — The Justice Department has opened a civil rights investigation into Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia over the use of race in admissions to its top-ranked Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology. Last year, the US Supreme Court declined to hear arguments over the same …