McMahon Wants Trump Talks With Harvard to Resume, Without Giving Ground
Linda McMahon, the country’s top education official, wants to reopen talks with Harvard University, but offered little indication that the ...
Tag: Education Department (US)
Trump Signs Executive Order Targeting University Accreditors, and Other Education Orders
President Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order targeting college accreditors, a group of largely unknown but long-established companies that ...
Education Department Is Threatening to Cut All Federal Funding for Maine Schools
The Department of Education said on Friday that it was moving to cut off all federal funding for Maine’s public ...
Obama Calls for Universities to Stand Up to Trump Administration Threats
Former President Barack Obama urged universities to resist attacks from the federal government that violate their academic freedom in a ...
Why Trump Can’t Immediately Shut Down the Education Department
President Trump on Thursday instructed Education Secretary Linda McMahon to begin shutting down her agency, a task that cannot be ...
Trump Is Said to Sign Order Aimed at Dismantling Education Department
President Trump plans to sign an executive order on Thursday instructing Education Secretary Linda McMahon to begin dismantling the agency, ...
Senate Confirms Linda McMahon as Education Secretary
The Senate voted along party lines on Monday to confirm Linda McMahon as the nation’s next education secretary, putting the ...
Judge Blocks Elon Musk’s DOGE Team From Education Department’s Student Loan Databases
A federal judge in Maryland granted a temporary restraining order on Monday blocking the Education Department and the Office of ...
Education Dept. Gives Schools Two Weeks to Eliminate Race-Based Programs
The Education Department warned schools in a letter on Friday that they risked losing federal funding if they continued to ...
Trump’s Moves to Upend Federal Bureaucracy Touch Off Fear and Confusion
An Education Department employee was attending a funeral this week when she got the call: She was being placed on ...
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