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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1 week ago |
edweek.org | Mark Lieberman |Caitlynn Peetz
President Donald Trump’s unprecedented decision to impose tariffs on goods imported from most countries could lead to higher prices for schools on everything from paper and lumber to laptops and tablets. The stock market declines sparked by the tariffs could hurt retirement plan funds that educators rely on. And the levies could trigger an economic recession with devastating fiscal consequences for school districts and the broader public, economists say.
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1 week ago |
edweek.org | Mark Lieberman
Sixteen states and the District of Columbia on Thursday sued the Trump administration over its decision to essentially halt hundreds of millions of federal dollars schools have already committed to spend—and often pledged to outside vendors through contracts.
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2 weeks ago |
edweek.org | Mark Lieberman |Olina Banerji
More than two months after the federal government terminated dozens of grants for programs aiming to grow the educator workforce, some recipients of those funds still don’t know whether they’ll ever see their money again, and what they’ll do if they don’t. Two separate lawsuits have challenged the Trump administration’s February decision to terminate close to 140 Department of Education grants for teacher colleges, school districts, and education-focused nonprofits.
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2 weeks ago |
edweek.org | Matthew Stone |Mark Lieberman
The Trump administration wants the nation’s schools to certify that they’re not using “illegal DEI practices” by April 24 in order to continue receiving federal education funds. In a letter sent April 3, the administration gave state education chiefs 10 days to sign a certification saying they’re complying with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits race-based discrimination in federally funded programs.
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2 weeks ago |
edweek.org | Mark Lieberman
Several states are urging U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon to immediately restore previously approved pandemic relief funding that the Education Department canceled last week, even as her agency doubles down on a new appeal process for states and districts to release funding for projects they, in many cases, have already started.
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New from me/@beeschultz3: DOGE has ended hundreds of U.S. Department of Education contracts and grants. Many were mandated by Congress and were supporting efforts to: -improve K-12 instruction -expand the teacher pipeline -evaluate prior investments https://t.co/sXLXFKZMFz
In many states, K-12 students' NAEP scores are dropping. But as some argue that growing $$ for public schools is to blame, experts cite ample evidence that's not true. @s_e_schwartz and I report for @educationweek on an increasingly contentious debate: https://t.co/hkt47Ru0xD
New: Linda McMahon, potential U.S. Education Secretary, declined to commit that Black history classes in K-12 schools are allowed under Trump's EOs. "I’m not quite certain, and I’d like to look into it further and get back to you on that," she said. https://t.co/36A03CIdz4