A new round of layoffs at the Education Department is depleting an agency that was hit hard in the Trump administration’s previous mass firings, threatening new disruption to the nation’s students and schools in areas from special education to civil rights enforcement to after-school programs. The Education Department had about 4,100 employees when Trump took…
DENVER (AP) — The U.S. Education Department said Thursday that Denver Public Schools violated Title IX protections against sex-based discrimination in education by creating all-gender bathrooms and allowing students to use bathrooms corresponding with their gender identity. The finding followed an unprecedented probe of Denver’s East High School, marking a sharp departure from the department’s…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Teachers, social workers, nurses and other public workers would be cut off from a popular student loan cancellation program if the Trump administration finds their employer engaged in activities with a “substantial illegal purpose,” under a new federal proposal released on Friday. The Education Department took aim at nonprofits or government bodies…
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As the Trump administration moves to dismantle the Education Department, officials have suggested other agencies could take over its major responsibilities: civil rights enforcement to the Justice Department, perhaps; student loans to Treasury or Commerce; oversight of student disability rights to Health and Human Services. Less clear is what could happen with a more lofty…
President-elect Donald Trump has charged Tesla (TSLA) CEO Elon Musk and former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy with cutting government spending and “making changes to the Federal Bureaucracy with an eye on efficiency.” Years of comments from both men suggest they could aim to do much more than slim down Washington. They appear poised to make…