The Supreme Court has allowed President Trump’s administration to proceed with plans cutting nearly 50% of the Department of Education’s workforce—approximately 1,400 employees—overturning a lower court injunction.
Dan Apple left the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 1990, just over halfway through his degree. More than three decades later, at age 55, he’s back in school and on track to graduate by the end of the year—thanks to a new initiative aimed at helping adults finish what they started.
The National Education Association (NEA) faces growing backlash after delegates voted to prohibit the use of Anti-Defamation League (ADL) materials in classrooms—a move critics call a disturbing act of NEA antisemitism.
New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani identified as both “Black or African American” and “Asian” on his 2009 Columbia University application, according to leaked data from a massive Columbia admissions breach. The revelation raises fresh questions about identity politics and racial self-identification in elite college admissions.
Governor Katie Hobbs signed a $17.6 billion bipartisan budget Friday, narrowly avoiding a government shutdown and marking another year of steady spending increases under her administration. The new fiscal package includes funding increases for K-12 education, Medicaid, border security, and public safety—features that align closely with Hobbs’ original proposal but reflect bipartisan compromises with a Republican-led legislature.