Mackenzie Wilkes

1 week ago | 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.

1 week ago | 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.

1 month 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.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Mackenzie Wilkes

Harvard University leaders announced a temporary hiring freeze Monday, citing “substantial financial uncertainties” as colleges and universities face widespread scrutiny of their federal funds by the Trump administration.

1 month ago | politico.com | Mackenzie Wilkes

Illustration by Claudine Hellmuth/POLITICO (source images via iStock) Hi Rulers. Happy Women’s History Month! I’m Mackenzie Wilkes, an education reporter at POLITICO dropping in for this week’s Women Rule. Let’s get into it: President Donald Trump decried “unelected bureaucrats” this week in his address to Congress as Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency continues slashing the federal workforce.