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How Department of Education Cuts Affect Unhoused Students and Educators

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Recently, I was at Finch Elementary School, a Title I school in Atlanta, where Love Beyond Walls is building Zion’s Closet—converting a classroom into a resource center in partnership with the school to provide essentials like uniforms, a washer and dryer, refrigeration and healthy foods, undergarments, and hygiene items to support students and families facing poverty or homelessness. These items aren’t luxuries; they meet the real, everyday nee…

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Shut Down the Department of Education ASAP

A recent report from the American Enterprise Institute summarizes results from the most recent National Assessment of Educational Progress — also known as the nation’s report card. The test, given every two years, reports scores of our nation’s children in reading and math at the fourth grade and eighth grade levels. AEI characterizes the most recent results as a “five-alarm fire.” I call it simply pathetic. In 2024, 40% of fourth graders scored…

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How Department of Education Cuts Affect Unhoused Students and Educators

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Disabled students face rights violations amid Department of Education shutdown

Since President Donald Trump’s inauguration, federal agencies across sectors have been thrust into chaos. Most of the contracts through the U.S. Agency for International Development have been canceled, leaving USAID effectively shuttered. The Defense Department, Veterans Affairs, and the Social Security Administration are planning personnel cuts in the tens of thousands. Other agencies, think tanks, and funds are also set to be affected. But one…

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From Classrooms to College Tuition—How Federal Cuts Could Reshape Education

"America is not going to be great if we don’t have educated people who know how to work in these industries, who know how to innovate," said high school educator Kate Blumenthal.

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A New, Bipartisan Agenda for Raising Student Achievement

This piece originally appeared in Washington Monthly. Amid Donald Trump’s campaign to dismantle the Department of Education, a recent report from one of its most respected agencies, the National Assessment of Educational Progress, revealed that more than a third of the nation’s students struggle to read after being in school for eight years. The finding […]

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How the Education Department helps students with disabilities get an education - TPR: The Public's Radio

Special education laws and the U.S. Department of Education have evolved together over nearly five decades. Now, the Trump administration seems to want to separate the two. The post How the Education Department helps students with disabilities get an education appeared first on TPR: The Public's Radio.

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