More than one month since Education Secretary Linda McMahon announced massive layoffs at the U.S. Department of Education, she has promised that the highly anticipated Nation's Report Card will be released as normal.
On Thursday, a lawsuit was filed in New York suggesting that K12 schools were stripped of their previously promised pandemic relief funds "with no advance notice or warning."
%%excerpt%% Over 1,300 federal employees impacted by the Department of Education's March 11 reduction in force just received their official separation notices, according to copies reviewed by ABC News.
Launch of the "Title IX Special Investigations Team" comes one day after the Trump administration threatened to withhold Title I funding over DEI programs.
Education Secretary Linda McMahon said the Trump administration won’t penalize states that reject school choice, calling it a state issue. Her remarks follow Trump’s executive order to close the Department of Education and expand school choice efforts.
Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren is rallying Congressional leaders to investigate the Trump Administration's efforts to dismantle the Department of Education.
The directive comes as the Department of Education launches investigations into state laws that prohibit school personnel from disclosing a child's gender identity to parents.
Two coalitions of K12 and higher ed advocates filed separate lawsuits this week, hoping to derail President Donald Trump's executive order to close the Department of Education.
