Kara Arundel

Washington, D.C.

Senior Reporter at K-12 Dive

National education journalist/ Author of Raising America's Zoo 🦍🦍 https://t.co/pYr4LEbUQW

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Judge orders Education Department to restore COVID spending extensions

1 week ago | k12dive.com | Kara Arundel

The U.S. Department of Education must allow the temporary extension of federal COVID-19 emergency funds to flow to 16 Democratic-leaning states and the District of Columbia, according to an order issued by a New York federal judge Tuesday.
Pre-K teachers want to stay in jobs despite lower pay, longer hours

1 week ago | k12dive.com | Kara Arundel

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Public school pre-K teachers earn about $7,000 less per year than public K-12 teachers and about $24,000 less than similar working adults, but were less likely to say they intend to leave their jobs at the end of the 2023-24 school year, according to Rand Corp. survey results released Tuesday.
IDEA services for infants, toddlers brace for budget impacts

2 weeks ago | k12dive.com | Kara Arundel

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. A program that supports infants and toddlers with developmental delays and their families could face significant fiscal pressures due to the Trump administration's overall efforts to reduce the size and budget of the federal government.
States drop Section 504 constitutional challenge

2 weeks ago | k12dive.com | Kara Arundel

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. A constitutional challenge against Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act will no longer be pursued in a lawsuit filed by 17 states last year, according to a joint status report submitted by plaintiffs and defendants to the court earlier this month.
Will Trump’s school discipline order drive wider disparities or ‘restore common sense’?

2 weeks ago | k12dive.com | Kara Arundel

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. A new White House executive order calling for "common sense" in school discipline policies by removing practices based on "discriminatory equity ideology" will drive even wider racial disparities in discipline than currently exist, critics say.
Judge restricts Education Department’s DEI threats

3 weeks ago | k12dive.com | Kara Arundel

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Utah judge declares private school choice program unconstitutional

3 weeks ago | k12dive.com | Kara Arundel

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. A Utah private school choice program that began providing scholarships for students this school year has been declared unconstitutional by a state judge in Salt Lake City.
Layoffs, cuts, chaos: The Education Department in Trump’s first 90 days

3 weeks ago | k12dive.com | Naaz Modan |Kara Arundel |Anna Merod

Last month, the U.S. Department of Education reduced its workforce by half, sending shockwaves through the education community.
Head Start zeroed out in Trump’s preliminary budget plan

4 weeks ago | k12dive.com | Kara Arundel

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Head Start would be eliminated under a draft fiscal 2026 budget that the Trump administration is preparing to send to Congress, according to a preliminary budget planning document acquired by K-12 Dive's sister publication Healthcare Dive.
Head Start zeroed out in Trump's preliminary budget plan

4 weeks ago | healthcaredive.com | Kara Arundel