Federal Education News
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Violence, Hate Crimes in Schools Surged in Pre-COVID Period, Federal Watchdog Finds
Sexual assaults, physical attacks, and other hostile behaviors in schools rose significantly in several school years prior to the pandemic,…
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Records Show Feds Have Awarded Millions of Taxpayer Dollars to Fund Critical Race Theory Training for Future Educators
Federal grant records show the U.S. Department of Education has awarded millions of taxpayer dollars to fund critical race theory…
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U.S. Department of Education Opens Discrimination Investigation at Alabama Middle School
The U.S. Department of Education Office of Civil Rights has opened an investigation into the Talladega County school system over…
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Maine’s Exclusion of Religious Schools From Choice Program Goes Before U.S. Supreme Court Next Week
A case over public funding for religious schools in Maine is expected to reveal the current U.S. Supreme Court’s thinking…
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Biden’s Education Department Wants to Roll Back Effort to Catalog Teacher Sex Crimes
The Department of Education wants to roll back a Trump-era effort to collect data on teacher-on-student sex crimes.
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Florida High School Massacre Families to Get Millions for FBI’s Inaction
The families of most of those killed and wounded in the 2018 Florida high school massacre announced Monday have reached…
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States Still Waiting for Ed Department Guidance on Restarting Testing and Accountability
The 2021-22 school year is nearly half over and some state officials say they’re still waiting for guidance from the…
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Education Department’s Civil Rights Data Collection Expands With Questions on Virus, Discipline, Sex
When the Education Department surveys schools this academic year for its long-running Civil Rights Data Collection, it's planning to introduce…
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FBI ‘Tagging’ Parents Fuels Debate Over School Boards, Parental Rights
The FBI has sparked nationwide controversy after a report emerged showing that the federal law enforcement agency has been “tagging”…
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Feds Open Civil Rights Investigations Into Texas District at Center of Critical Race Theory Battle
The U.S. Department of Education opened a civil rights investigation into allegations of discrimination in Southlake schools, district and federal…
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Biden’s Infrastructure Plan Is Rolling Out Electric School Buses
The U.S.’s approximately 500,000 school buses comprise the country’s largest public transportation network, moving 26 million children between school and…
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FBI Using Counterterrorism Tools to Track Parents, Whistleblower Says
The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s counterterrorism and criminal division have reportedly began placing “threat tags” on alleged complaints against school-board…
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Democrats Preparing to Fight GOP to Be ‘Party of the Parents’ in 2022 Midterms
Democratic Party officials insist they’re ready for the debate over education after parental anger at public schools helped Republicans score…
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Senator Hawley to Introduce Bill to Protect Parents’ Rights in Their Children’s Education
Missouri Republican U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley plans to provide details on a proposed “Parents’ Bill of Rights” in the coming…
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FBI Director Said Bureau Will ‘Stay in Its Own Lane’ and Won’t Be Attending School Board Meetings
FBI Director Christopher Wray “made it clear” during an October speech that FBI agents “would not be attending school board…
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Federal Money Justified by COVID Allocated to Spending on Student Mental Health
With a windfall of federal coronavirus relief money at hand, schools across the U.S. are using portions to quickly expand…
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Feds Push Schools to Provide COVID Shots for Kids
The Biden administration is encouraging local school districts to host clinics to provide COVID-19 vaccinations to kids — and information…
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Democrats Quietly Nix Biden’s $100B for School Modernization From Infrastructure Package
In a major blow that left educators, school leaders and advocates stunned, Democrats pared back – and then eliminated –…
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Ted Cruz Introduces Bill to Block Feds, States and Public Schools From Mandating COVID Vaccines for Kids
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, introduced legislation Thursday to prevent the federal government, as well as public schools, from imposing COVID-19…
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Biden’s New Vaccine-or-Test Rule Will Apply to Some School Districts, Too
Large swaths of the country’s public school employees could be required to get vaccinated against COVID or regularly tested under…
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Republicans to Introduce Legislation to Prevent Vaccine Mandates in School
The legislation would prevent the federal government from withholding education funds on the basis of vaccination requirements.
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Republicans Slam Biden Admin Efforts to Nationalize Education
After education issues proved crucial to Republicans' upset victories in Virginia, GOP lawmakers are turning their attention to Democratic plans…
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U.S. Supreme Court Weighs Limits of Censure in Case With Implications for Divisive School Boards
Legislative bodies, including K-12 school boards, should be able to police their own members and censure is the historical mechanism…
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House Judiciary GOP Demands Info From U.S. Attorneys on Meetings Prompted by Garland School Board Memo
House Republicans are demanding answers from all 93 U.S. attorneys about what steps they've taken since Attorney General Merrick Garland…
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U.S. Supreme Court Declines to Hear Three Post-Janus Cases Over Union Dues
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear three cases in which some educators argue that unions continue to…
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