Suevon Lee
Assistant Managing Editor, Education at WBUR-FM (Boston, MA)
Editor @WBUR's education desk. Most recent prior: education reporter @CivilBeat
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1 week ago |
wbur.org | Suevon Lee |Carrie Jung
Harvard will not agree to demands pushed by the Trump administration as a condition for maintaining nearly $9 billion in federal funding, the school's president said Monday.
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4 weeks ago |
wbur.org | Suevon Lee
Several faculty groups at prominent universities, including Harvard, are suing the Trump administration over its recent efforts to arrest, detain or deport pro-Palestinian campus activists. In a lawsuit filed in federal district court in Boston Tuesday morning, the professor associations argue the government's policies have led to a "climate of fear" and chilled speech at higher education institutions across the country.
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1 month ago |
wbur.org | Suevon Lee
At least a couple dozen Massachusetts-based staff will go on administrative leave as part of the federal Department of Education's massive workforce cuts announced by the Trump administration Tuesday. The department is eliminating roughly 1,300 positions, slashing the agency in half and effectively eliminating entire units, according to a press release sent by the agency Tuesday evening.
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1 month ago |
wbur.org | Suevon Lee
Harvard’s president announced a temporary hiring freeze on all staff and faculty positions across the university in the wake of actions imposed by the Trump administration that could impact the institution’s financial future. “We need to prepare for a wide range of financial circumstances, and strategic adjustments will take time to identify and implement,” Alan Garber wrote in a letter to the campus community on Monday.
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1 month ago |
wbur.org | Suevon Lee
Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell and seven other state attorneys general sued the U.S. Department of Education and its top official Thursday to challenge recent cuts to grant funding for K-12 teacher preparation programs nationwide. The programs were authorized by Congress to recruit and train teachers for hard-to-staff subject areas in rural and urban communities, and to provide teachers and principals the opportunity to serve in underserved districts.
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