US EditionHELP Committee lawmakers, hearing witnesses disagree on Trump admin higher ed policy
- Eleven Democratic senators wrote to Ren� Rocque, the acting inspector general, requesting an investigation into the Trump administration's Education Department cuts, warning that these alterations could lead to disastrous consequences for students and families.
- The senators noted that the layoffs threaten critical services responsible for financial aid and civil rights enforcement, stating that these actions likely contravene the law and will hurt students and families everywhere.
- Senator Elizabeth Warren criticized the actions, stating that these cuts would harm generations of students and expressed concern that the administration is cutting public education funding while not affecting their own children.
- The National Education Association expressed concern that the cuts would increase class sizes and make higher education less accessible for students across the country.
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HELP Committee lawmakers, hearing witnesses disagree on Trump admin higher ed policy
The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee held its first hearing specifically focused on campus antisemitism since the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas terror attacks, where panel members and witnesses sparred over the Trump administration’s overall response to the issue and cuts to the Department of Education. A repeated focus during Thursday’s hearing was on the Trump administration’s moves to gut the Department of Education, includ…
How Education Department Cuts Could Jeopardize FAFSA
The federal student aid form had just begun to stabilize after a disastrous launch last winter. Then the Trump administration gutted the agency that manages it. Last year the financial aid world was thrown into chaos after a newly overhauled Free Application for Federal Student Aid launched with glaring technical errors and user issues. Now, government officials and financial aid professionals say the Trump administration’s mass layoffs and spen…
Illinois joins effort to block dismantling of U.S. Education Department
Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul and 20 other state attorneys general are asking a federal judge to immediately halt President Donald Trump’s efforts to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education.
After nixing of Education Department, legal experts divided about efforts to combat campus antisemitism (Jewish Insider) - Brandeis Center
Published by Jewish Insider on 03/21/2025 Just hours before President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday directing Education Secretary Linda McMahon to start dismantling the Department of Education, the department’s Office for Civil Rights opened its latest batch of antisemitism investigations into several universities. Jewish legal and education experts were left divided over how the
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