Highlights
US Chamber Sues White House To Block ‘Plainly Unlawful’ H-1B Visa Fee - Higher Ed Dive - 21 October 2025
Another University Declines Trump’s Offer for Priority Funding - PBS News Hour - 21 October 2025
Trump administration seeks to move special education to different agency - The Washington Post (subscription model) - 21 October 2025
Remote work drives ‘remarkable’ employment surge for workers with disabilities - HR Dive - 22 October 2025
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Deep Dive: Government Shutdown
Federal Layoffs Put Head Start, FAFSA, and Civil Rights Investigations at Risk - Capital B News - 17 October 2025
Parents, advocates alarmed as Trump leverages shutdown to gut special education office - The Hechinger Report - 17 October 2025
Many Districts Will Lose Federal Funds Until the Shutdown Ends - Education Week (subscription model) - 15 October 2025
Idaho schools on Native American reservations face funding lapse from federal shutdown - Idaho Ed News - 17 October 2025
K-12 Education
Virtual tutoring is here to stay. New research points to ways to make it better - Chalkbeat - 22 October 2025
At Moms for Liberty summit, parents urged to turn their grievances into lawsuits - The Hechinger Report - 20 October 2025
Lawmakers Demand Info on Students Detained by ICE, Including on Their Schooling - The 74 - 22 October 2025
How states can tackle absenteeism among worried immigrant families - K-12 Dive - 21 October 2025
America’s youth literacy crisis isn’t new — it’s been ignored - K-12 Dive - 22 October 2025
Opinion: The time is now for K-12’s “Great Modernization” - SmartBrief - 21 October 2025
Higher Education
Foreign Grads Seeking H-1B Status Avoid $100,000 Trump Fee - Bloomberg Law (subscription model) - 20 October 2025
Students Are Asking: Will My Degree Pay Off? They Deserve Answers. - RealClear Education - 21 October 2025
Tracking the Trump administration’s deals with colleges - Higher Ed Dive - 22 October 2025
Unwritten Policies Sow Faculty Fears. Are They Enforceable? - Inside Higher Ed - 22 October 2025
University of Virginia nears deal with Trump officials to end investigations - The Washington Post (subscription model) - 22 October 2025
What’s Lost When Liberal Arts Schools Close - The New York Times (subscription model) - 22 October 2025
Early Learning & Child Care
The Villains on Pre-K TV Are Cuddly, Annoying and … Morally Interesting - The New York Times (subscription model) - 22 October 2025
U.S. Department of Education
How Will ED’s Latest Layoffs Affect Students With Disabilities? - Inside Higher Ed - 22 October 2025
Fired NCES Chief: Ed. Dept. Cuts Mean ‘Fewer Eyes on the Condition of Schools’ - Education Week (subscription model) - 22 October 2025
What Should Research at the Ed. Dept. Look Like? The Field Weighs In - Education Week (subscription model) - 21 October 2025
Educator Workforce
Where are tomorrow’s teachers? Education degrees drop over 2 decades. - K-12 Dive - 20 October 2025
Teachers union wins fight with Trump administration to restart student-loan forgiveness for 2.5 million borrowers - Fortune (subscription model) - 22 October 2025
School Choice
The Promise and Peril of America’s School Choice Movement - The 74 - 22 October 2025
Ohio switches to private vendor to manage EdChoice funds - NBC 4 - 22 October 2025
Labor Market & Workforce
Women Are Losing in Trump’s Economy - The New York Times (subscription model) - 22 October 2025
60% of workers are unhappy with key aspects of their job, survey finds - CBS News - 21 October 2025
Four Experts on Why So Many Jobs Are Bad - Economics for Everyone - 20 October 2025
The Undervalued Power of Apprenticeships - Governing - 22 October 2025
AI & EdTech
How to avoid past edtech pitfalls as we begin using AI to scale impact in education - Brookings - 21 October 2025
State & Local News
Arkansas | Arkansas education commission forms emergency work group to address childcare crisis - Arkansas Democrat-Gazette - 21 October 2025
Florida | Florida test scores rise, attendance improves after cellphone ban - The Hill - 22 October 2025
Illinois | U of Illinois System Bans Consideration of Race, Sex in Hiring, Tenure, Student Aid - Inside Higher Ed - 22 October 2025
Ohio | ‘Disappointing’: Ohio’s Science of Reading Switch Not Yet Bringing Results - The 74 - 22 October 2025
Philadelphia | Some Philadelphia preschools say they’ll have to close classrooms if a Pa. budget isn’t passed soon - Pennsylvania Capital-Star - 22 October 2025
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