NEW JERSEY EDUCATION NEWS

NJ Patch

School Bus Aide Sentenced In Death Of Franklin Wheelchair-Bound Child

A request for a mistrial was withdrawn on Friday after both sides agreed to reduce a charge against Amanda Davila.

New Jersey Monitor / New Jersey Globe

N.J. attorney general sues President Trump over teacher training cuts

New Jersey Attorney General Matt Platkin is suing the Trump administration once again, this time over the president’s “illegal early termination” of grants funding teacher prep programs. 

NATIONAL EDUCATION NEWS

Chalkbeat

Immigration arrests at school: What parents and students should know

Confusion has been especially acute since Trump officials cleared the way for immigration arrests to happen at schools, child care centers, school bus stops, and playgrounds. Previously, the federal government had significant limits on immigration enforcement in these areas.

Education Week

Draft of Trump Order Tells Linda McMahon to Prepare for Ed. Dept.’s Dismantling

The draft executive order says that “the federal bureaucratic hold on education must end.”

Keeping DEI Work Alive in a Hostile Political Climate

This DEI director has found success by engaging across the ideological divide.

USA Today

Can Trump eliminate the Education Department? Here’s what the Constitution says.

President Donald Trump wants to kill the department to “the maximum extent appropriate and permitted by law,” according to a draft of a preliminary executive order reviewed by USA TODAY.