
Mackenzie Wilkes
K-12 National Education Reporter at POLITICO
education reporter @politico + author of morning ed | north carolinian | call me, beep me 📧: [email protected] signal: mwilkes.77 | @eloncomm alum
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politico.com | Mackenzie Wilkes
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politico.com | Mackenzie Wilkes
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politico.com | Juan Perez Jr. |Mackenzie Wilkes
“That is where the politics are: ‘We made a mistake during Covid, and we’re going to fix it,’” former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said of Democrats on education policy. President Donald Trump signs an executive order to reduce the size and scope of the Education Department in the East Room of the White House on March 20.
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yahoo.com | Juan Perez Jr |Mackenzie Wilkes
Democrats think Donald Trump’s DEI-slashing, money-cutting education agenda is an unpopular stance the party can use to reconnect with voters they turned off during the pandemic. They just need to agree on a strategy. Democratic lawmakers, teacher union leaders and fired agency employees have rallied outside Education Department headquarters and filed lawsuits challenging Trump’s moves to cull the agency’s staff and billions of dollars in spending.
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2 months ago |
politico.com | Mackenzie Wilkes
The university’s pause on faculty and staff hiring comes after the Trump administration pulled $400 million worth of grants and contracts at Columbia University on Friday. People walk past the John Harvard statue in Harvard Yard, Dec. 17, 2024, on the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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