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Keep special education with Education Department, former officials say

by kids1stadvocac | Jul 22, 2025 | Federal

K-12 Dive A bipartisan group of former federal special education officials has sent a letter to Congress urging increased funding for the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP). The letter, signed by 11 former OSEP directors and...

US Supreme Court clears way for Trump to gut Education Department

by kids1stadvocac | Jul 15, 2025 | Federal

Reuters The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for President Donald Trump’s administration to resume dismantling the Department of Education, part of his bid to shrink the federal government’s role in education in favor of more control by the...

How Trump is deploying multiple agencies to set education policy

by kids1stadvocac | Jul 15, 2025 | Federal

K-12 Dive The Trump administration is tapping agencies other than the U.S. Department of Education to implement its agenda in schools, sometimes circumventing typical rulemaking procedures that would allow districts months to give feedback on and prepare for policy...

Federal Judge Again Blocks the Dismantling of the U.S. Department of Education

by kids1stadvocac | Jul 1, 2025 | Federal

On June 18, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts granted a preliminary injunction to the plaintiffs in Victim Rights Law Center, et al. v. United States Department of Education, ordering that the Executive Branch Defendants cannot carry out...

Advocates Seek to Protect Children with Disabilities from Federal Cuts

by kids1stadvocac | Jun 17, 2025 | Federal

Nonprofit Quarterly In March, President Donald Trump issued Executive Order 14242 seeking to eliminate the US Department of Education. That order has since been blocked by a preliminary injunction issued on May 22 by US District Judge Myong J. Joun of Boston, but...
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