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k12dive.com | Naaz Modan
This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. The U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights is undergoing a slew of changes, including a significantly increased caseload after the Trump administration let go of hundreds of its employees. With the nomination of Kimberly Richey to fill the role of assistant secretary for civil rights, it's likely the office tasked with enforcing equal educational access will shift even more.
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3 days ago |
k12dive.com | Naaz Modan
This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. The U.S. Department of Justice on Monday warned California public school districts that they were "exposed to legal liability" after a transgender athlete won gold in a state high school track and field championship over the weekend. The win was shared with cisgender athletes who won first place alongside athlete AB Hernandez.
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3 days ago |
k12dive.com | Naaz Modan
This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Every state except New Hampshire now publishes chronic absenteeism data on its department of education website, according to a report by Attendance Works released Tuesday. The organization noted that when it was founded in 2010, Maryland was the only state to do so. A majority of states — 43 — had published their chronic absenteeism data for 2023-24 as of April.
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5 days ago |
k12dive.com | Naaz Modan
This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. The Texas Education Agency will extend its takeover of the Houston Independent School District by two years, to June 1, 2027, according to a Monday announcement. The high-profile conservatorship of the state's largest school district began in the summer of 2023.
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1 week ago |
highereddive.com | Naaz Modan
This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. The Trump administration’s decision to gut federal programs administered by the U.S. Department of Education and lay off half of the agency’s staff in an attempt to increase its efficiency has been met with resistance from lawmakers and, most recently, a federal judge whose court order brought efforts to close the department to an abrupt halt.
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USED is telling Maine and its schools to define “females” and “males” by the production of “eggs” and “sperm” — and telling MDOE to publicize that on its website — or lose fed funding. It would also require the state to apologize to its cisgender students. https://t.co/rAk6WzU5d7

Trump ordered Secretary of Education Linda McMahon to “take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Department of Education,” marking the boldest push from the president to shut down the agency since its establishment over four decades ago. https://t.co/4kugUwFbRH

RT @Jillhopkins: The DNC is just Coachella for Poli-Sci majors