Mark Walsh

1 week ago | edweek.org | Mark Walsh

When the Montgomery County school district in Maryland adopted several LGBTQ+ storybooks for use in its elementary schools, it initially allowed requests from parents to keep their children out of lessons using the books. But by March of the 2022-23 school year, the opt-out policy became “unworkable,” the district says.

2 weeks ago | edweek.org | Mark Walsh

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday granted the Trump administration’s emergency request to immediately terminate more than 100 grants under two federal teacher-training programs. The court ruled 5-4 to undo a temporary restraining order issued by a federal district judge in Massachusetts last month that restored funding for 104 grants under the Teacher Quality Partnership and Supporting Effective Educator Development programs.

3 weeks ago | edweek.org | Evie Blad |Mark Walsh

Federal efforts that have successfully driven down rates of youth vaping in recent years may be in peril after dramatic staffing cuts at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. HHS leadership placed Brian King, the director of the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Tobacco Products, on leave April 1 and cut dozens of employees from the center,, which regulates nicotine products and enforces regulations related to warning labels and marketing restrictions.

4 weeks ago | edweek.org | Mark Walsh

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday signaled it is unlikely to upend the federal E-rate program for school internet connections, even as some conservative justices showed sympathy for the legal doctrine that challengers are relying on to attack the E-rate’s funding structure as an unconstitutional tax. “I am quite concerned about the effects of a decision in your favor on the grounds that you have been pressing,” Justice Samuel A.

1 month ago | edweek.org | Mark Walsh

A federal appeals court has declined to block an Idaho law requiring public school students to use only the restroom and changing facilities corresponding to their “biological sex,” ruling that it likely does not violate the 14th Amendment’s equal-protection clause or Title IX.