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Senate Committee Holds McMahon Confirmation Hearing
On Thursday, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee held a hearing to consider the nomination of Linda McMahon to be Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education (ED). In her opening remarks, McMahon pledged to deliver on education-related...
Administration Cuts Education Research and Technical Assistant Contracts
The Administration has canceled $900 million in contracts for the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), a major U.S. Education Department (ED) agency responsible for funding education research and maintaining extensive education statistics. Among the eighty-nine...
President Nominates Six ED Sub-Cabinet Positions
On February 12th, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) issued a press release announcing the presidential nomination of six sub-cabinet positions: Nicholas Kent, Under Secretary of Education; Jennifer Mascott, General Counsel to the Department of Education; Kimberly...
Think Tank Issues FAQ About Functions of ED
The Center for American Progress (CAP) has released a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) brief about the function of the U.S. Department of Education (ED). Succinctly captioned, the brief states that ED enhances education by offering guidance and essential support to...
EdTrust Brief Guides Leaders to Build Parent Support for Assessment
EdTrust issued a brief titled How District Leaders and Advocates Can Build Parent Support for Statewide Assessments that emphasizes the need to engage parents to support districtwide annual testing. Their analysis revealed a significant disconnect between policymakers...
McMahon Nomination Hearing Thursday, Advocates Ask for Answers on Plans to Protect Students with Disabilities
As the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee prepares for Thursday’s nomination hearing of Linda McMahon to serve as Secretary of Education, COPAA and disability advocates wrote and urged the HELP Committee to conduct an “informed dialogue”...
Expected Trump Order to Shutter Education Dept. Could Amount to ‘Pocket Change’
The 74 Despite the fiery rhetoric, President Donald Trump’s push to eliminate a Department of Education he accuses of abusing “taxpayer dollars to indoctrinate America’s youth” comes down, appropriately, to civics and math. First, the president cannot legally abolish...
Exclusive: 12 Education Chiefs Ask McMahon for More Control over Federal Funds
The 74 Some state education chiefs aren’t wasting any time letting the new administration know what they want. A dozen state leaders, all from Republican-led states, wrote to Linda McMahon, President Donald Trump’s education secretary nominee, last week asking her to...
Opinion: Nation’s Report Card shows we fail students with disabilities
The Mercury News When the Nation’s Report Card was released last month, it reiterated a hard truth about our education system today: We are failing our students with disabilities. Students with disabilities, who make up 15% of all public school students, continue to...
Trump wants to shake up education. What that could mean for a charter school started by a GOP senator’s wife
The hechinger Report Screening revealed that Brooke had dyslexia — a common learning disability stemming from neurological differences that make it difficult to identify sounds and associate them with letters and words. When her private school told the Simmons family...