Matthew Stone

3 weeks ago | edweek.org | Matthew Stone

Two federal judges on Thursday significantly limited the Trump administration’s ability to enforce a series of orders it’s issued telling the nation’s schools and colleges to eliminate much of their diversity, equity, and inclusion programming or risk losing federal funds. The judges in Maryland and New Hampshire both found the Trump administration’s anti-DEI efforts didn’t pass legal muster, but for slightly different reasons.

1 month ago | edweek.org | Matthew Stone

A federal appeals court has granted the Trump administration’s request to keep millions of dollars in teacher-training grants frozen while a legal challenge to the abrupt February termination of the grants proceeds in a lower court.

1 month 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.

2 months ago | edweek.org | Brooke Schultz |Mark Lieberman |Matthew Stone |Sarah Schwartz

Use these buttons to jump to a specific section of this articleThe seismic dismissal of employees at the U.S. Department of Education this week represents a “first step” toward abolishing the federal agency, Education Secretary Linda McMahon confirmed shortly after reduction-in-force notices went out to hundreds of employees Tuesday evening.

2 months ago | edweek.org | Brooke Schultz |Matthew Stone

Linda McMahon on Monday easily secured the votes in the U.S. Senate needed to serve as secretary of education, allowing her to take the helm of an agency President Donald Trump is already trying to significantly downsize and hopes to abolish. The Senate approved McMahon to lead the U.S. Department of Education in a 51-45 party-line vote.