Highlights
Senate Confirms Longtime North Dakota Schools Chief for Top Ed. Dept. Role - Education Week (subscription model) - 7 October 2025
Trump’s H-1B Visa Fee Could Strain Universities and Schools - The New York Times (subscription model) - 8 October 2025
Democrats introduce bill to help federal workers cover child care costs during shutdown - The Guardian - 8 October 2025
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K-12 Education
Trump Funding Cuts Hit Particularly Hard for Deaf and Blind Children - Education Week (subscription model) - 7 October 2025
What My Students With Disabilities Taught Me About Career-Connected Learning - EdSurge - 8 October 2025
Here’s how science of reading can be tailored for dual-language learners - K-12 Dive - 8 October 2025
Banning cellphones in schools: Are the kids alright? - CBS News - 5 October 2025
Tennessee lawmaker and school choice advocate to lead national standardized test board - Chalkbeat Tennessee - 1 October 2025
Higher Education
Economic Uncertainty Spurred Cuts in September - Inside Higher Ed - 8 October 2025
Don’t let polarization undermine the vital role colleges play in the US - Higher Ed Dive - 8 October 2025
Student Support Programs in Peril After Federal Cuts at Hispanic-Serving Community Colleges - EdSource - 8 October 2025
With Compact, Universities Weigh Whether to Give Up Freedoms for Unknown Payout - Inside Higher Ed - 8 October 2025
Early Learning & Child Care
Spend more federal money on child care, rural parents say - The Hechinger Report - 2 October 2025
Need child care in New York? The city’s teacher union wants to help you find your match. - Gothamist - 8 October 2025
Toyota and other manufacturers invest to fill child care void for workers - HR Dive - 6 October 2025
U.S. Department of Education
Richey confirmed to lead Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights - K-12 Dive - 8 October 2025
These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department. - ProPublica - 8 October 2025
Wisconsin doesn't have enough special ed teachers. Trump cut a grant that supports them - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - 8 October 2025
Competing for Crumbs - The American Prospect - 8 October 2025
Educator Workforce
Tutoring Is the Teacher Pipeline We’ve Been Missing - The 74 - 7 October 2025
How School Leaders Can Help Teachers Avoid Burnout - Education Week (subscription model) - 7 October 2025
School Choice
How school boards reflect their constituencies — and where they don’t - K-12 Dive - 8 October 2025
Labor Market & Workforce
What we know about the labor market, even without Jobs Friday data - Housing Wire - 3 October 2025
AI & EdTech
Rising Use of AI in Schools Comes With Big Downsides for Students - Education Week (subscription model) - 8 October 2025
1 in 5 high schoolers has had a romantic AI relationship, or knows someone who has - NPR - 8 October 2025
OpenAI highlights classroom uses of ChatGPT in new teacher-led collection - EdTech Innovation Hub - 7 October 2025
Virginia Is Seeking Statewide AI Literacy Training; Major Calif. System to Buy World Languages PD - Education Week (subscription model) - 7 October 2025
State & Local News
California | New California law aims to improve school nutrition by phasing out some ultraprocessed foods - Associated Press - 8 October 2025
California | Inequalities grow unchecked in some wealthy counties despite funding formula reforms - EdSource - 7 October 2025
Florida | Florida Republican unveils bill threatening state funding if colleges don’t rename roads after Charlie Kirk - The Hill - 8 October 2025
South Carolina | S.C. Department of Education sued over book-banning regulation - WDRW - 8 October 2025
Ohio | Ohio schools plagued with chronic absenteeism with 1 in 4 students missing too much class - Cleveland Online - 5 October 2025
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