Mark Lieberman
Freelance Writer at Freelance
Reporter at Education Week
Reporting on K-12 school $$ for @educationweek. Proud member of @EdWeekUnion. Bylines in @washingtonpost, @DCist, @VanityFair, @vulture, and more. he/him/his
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3 days ago |
edweek.org | Mark Lieberman |Matthew Stone
President Donald Trump is proposing $12 billion in cuts to the U.S. Department of Education budget for the fiscal year that starts Oct. 1. The plan “reflects an agency that is responsibly winding down,” the administration says in budget documents.
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1 week ago |
edweek.org | Mark Lieberman
President Donald Trump’s administration on Friday revealed the full details of his administration’s sweeping proposal to slash federal education spending, eliminate grant programs worth billions of dollars, and rewrite special education law in unprecedented ways. The annual White House budget proposal, released with little fanfare just minutes before 5 p.m. on May 30, fleshes out the “skinny budget” documents the administration published earlier in May.
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2 weeks ago |
edweek.org | Mark Lieberman
Congress on Wednesday took a major and unprecedented step toward creating a federal private school choice program, as House lawmakers narrowly approved a sweeping legislative package with $5 billion in annual tax credits that fuel scholarships and related expenses at K-12 private schools.
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2 weeks ago |
edweek.org | Mark Lieberman
The federal government’s ongoing effort to cancel more than a billion dollars of pandemic-relief funds for schools is on hold in some states for the second time in less than a month, following a May 20 court order from a federal judge.
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2 weeks ago |
edweek.org | Mark Lieberman
Parents of children with disabilities often struggle to grasp the complex array of services they’re entitled to demand from their school districts. That’s where people like Jennifer Donelli comes in. Donelli has served since 2020 as executive director of Parents Reaching Out, a nonprofit organization designated and partially funded by the federal government since the early 1980s as New Mexico’s “parent training and information center” for special education. Every state, by law, has at least one.
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RT @pfmanna: Here's a great explainer on Trump's FY2026 education budget proposal from @MarkALieberman. Link in next post. @arotherham @CED…
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Feds want states to certify their schools have ended DEI by Thursday or risk losing fed $. 1/3 confirm yes 1/3 will decline 1/3 we don't know yet Will be a legal battle. Map per @educationweek https://t.co/AjpIPEJFxR