Highlights
As Minneapolis grapples with ICE, schools try to balance learning with student safety - The Hill - 22 January 2026
Scholarship Tax Credit Leaves Democratic Governors with Difficult Choice - The 74 - 22 January 2026
States look to help with student loans to offset Trump administration limits - The Washington Post (subscription model) - 22 January 2026
Colleges Are Letting AI Bots Help Make Decisions on Who to Admit - Bloomberg (subscription model) - 21 January 2026
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Federal Policy & Politics
Trump administration tells agencies to compile data on money sent to Democratic states - Associated Press - 22 January 2026
From Head Start to Civil Rights, 8 Ways Trump Reshaped Education in Just 1 Year - The 74 - 20 January 2026
‘N.Y. Times’: Another Version of Trump’s Higher Ed Compact in the Works - Inside Higher Ed - 22 January 2026
Trump Is Allowing Some Anti-DEI Directives to Die. That Likely Won’t Matter for Colleges - Chronicle of Higher Ed (subscription model) - 21 January 2026
Brown Center scholars reflect on education after 1 year of the Trump administration - Brookings - 20 January 2026
K-12
Absenteeism May Hurt Academics Long Before It Becomes ‘Chronic’ - Education Week (subscription model) - 21 January 2026
As student enrollment declines, a look at public school closures - K-12 Dive - 22 January 2026
More States Are Pairing Cellphone Bans With Media Literacy Instruction - Education Week (subscription model) - 21 January 2026
Higher Education
High-Stakes Policy Talks Shed Light on ED’s Playbook - Inside Higher Ed - 22 January 2026
Another State’s Public Universities Are Tightening Post-Tenure Review and Dictating Teaching Loads - Chronicle of Higher Ed (subscription model) - 21 January 2026
Who Gets to Borrow (and Charge) Over $100,000 for Graduate School - The New York Times (subscription model) - 22 January 2026
Early Learning & Child Care
Households With 2 Kids Need to Earn Average of $402,708 to Comfortably Afford Child Care - LendingTree - 20 January 20266
Alabama gets $3.8 million grant to boost early childhood education - Alabama Political Reporter - 22 January 2026
Opinion: What if States Made Child Care a Constitutional Right? - The 74 - 21 January 2026
Educator Talent & Staffing
What Trump’s $100,000 Visa Fee Could Mean for Schools - Education Week (subscription model) - 22 January 2026
Technology & AI
Ed tech is profitable. It is also mostly useless - The Economist (subscription model) - 22 January 2026
Workforce & Career Pathways
🎧 Public-Private Partnerships As A Path To Economic Mobility with Fernando Bleichmar - The Rant Podcast - 13 January 2026
School Choice
Trump’s national school voucher program could mean a boom in Christian education - The Hechinger Report - 22 January 2026
Gov. Reeves says Mississippi will participate in federal school-choice tax credits - WTVA - 21 January 2026
State & Local News
Connecticut | Connecticut Legislature to Weigh AI, Cellphones in School - GovTech - 21 January 2026
New Mexico | Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham calls for sustained funding for universal child care in state of the state address - KUNM - 21 January 2026
Texas | Houston ISD families report positive outlook following takeover - K-12 Dive - 20 January 2026
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