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Two Dozen States Sue Trump Over $6.8 Billion School Funding Freeze The Trump administration violated the U.S. Constitution when it withheld billions from schools in early July, the lawsuit alleges.

NEW: Democratic officials representing more than half the U.S. population sued the Trump administration today, alleging that impounding $6.8 billion for education violated federal law and the U.S. Constitution. www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

Trump administration withholding $612M in education funding from New Mexico • Source New Mexico Lawmakers are asking the Trump administration to immediately lift a freeze on $7 billion meant for K-12 and adult education.

New Mexico is dead last in public education and now has to educate children with even fewer resources...

Trump is "withholding $612 million from K-12 schools and adult education programs in New Mexico, accounting for approximately 13% of all education funding for the state"

Reports @sourcenm.com

I drank Ovaltine every night in my glass of milk with dinner. As a special treat, sometimes I could have Strawberry Quik. Straight sugar with surely illegal food dye.

Good response. Let’s keep those crowds out of Wisconsin.

Two American Families | FRONTLINE Watch FRONTLINE's documentary filmed over 34 years, which tells the story of two families struggling to survive in a changing U.S. economy.

This was an incredible documentary filmed over more than thirty years that highlights how the US economy has impacted two families from Milwaukee, Wisconsin

www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...

Wisconsin’s even better. 😎

Student loan borrowers stuck in limbo since last summer were put in forebearance, with no interest accruing. But guess what? That's about to end in a real hurry. Interest restarts on Aug 1.

Letters of Recommendation by High School Counselors in Selective College Admissions: Differences by Race and Socioeconomic Status in Letter Length and Topics Discussed - Research in Higher Education Letters of recommendation from school counselors are required to apply to most selective universities. We use cutting-edge natural language processing techniques to algorithmically analyze a national ...

This is a really cool new Research in Higher Education article looking at letters of recommendation written for selective college admissions. And it's a great team of researchers! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Who Will Bear the Brunt of Trump's Hold on $6.8 Billion in School Funds? The sudden absence of expected federal funds has already cost some educators their jobs.

The sudden absence of expected federal funds has already cost some educators their jobs. In Missouri, the Laclede Literacy Council laid off 16 of 17 staffers after the Trump administration didn’t give out $715 million nationwide for adult education. - Ed Week

See How Much School Funding Trump Is Holding Back From Your State The administration is holding back nearly $7 billion for English learners, after-school programs, professional development, and more.

The U.S. Department of Education told states that it would not deliver nearly $7 billion from seven K-12 education programs.

This table offers a look at how much each state expected to receive for each of the affected programs.

Grassley Meets with Iowa Students Participating in National History Day Contest Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) met with students from across Iowa this week who were in Washington, D.C., to participate in the National History Day Contest. The contest celebrates student scholarship

Sen. Grassley, when you and your gang continue to gut education and humanities, these kids won’t be learning about history. Also, you basically signed the death warrant for the Iowa Humanities Council that had *just* secured funding two weeks or so before DOGE. Way to go, sir. shorturl.at/EQBS3

Last Day to Take Action: CDC Public Comment on Vaccines Closes TODAY 6/20 11:59pm EDT Tell the CDC we need broad access to vaccines and science-based expert advisors; Public comment to CDC ACIP vaccine committee closes TODAY 6/20 at 11:59pm EDT

Today 6/20 is the last day to make public comments to the CDC before the vaccine committee meeting: precaution.substack.com/p/last-day-t... Written comments are getting flooded with antivax comments. Support vaccine access by submitting a written comment or registering to speak. #medsky #pathsky

The Plight of the Recent College Graduate - CEW Georgetown As a parent, I worry about my child’s future. Soon after a recent trip to pick up my son following his first year of college, I encountered several other parents with similar concerns:

Our research has shown time and again that the bachelor’s degree is an investment that pays off in the long run. We should be focused on smoothing the transition between college and careers. We owe it to our children and their futures. bit.ly/449WUAL

#AcademicSky #HigherEducation

One Big Beautiful Bill is an Implementation Nightmare for Higher Education Education Secretary McMahon has repeatedly described the Department as “an agency that is responsibly winding down.” While the Department is hoping to wind down, House Republicans are proposing legisl...

Sec. McMahon describes ED as “an agency that is responsibly winding down.” Meanwhile, House Republicans are seeking to pass legislation that would require it to dramatically ramp up to implement one of the most complicated set of changes in decades, setting off an implementation nightmare.

"Nearly 300,000 people have immigrated from abroad to nonmetropolitan, or rural, counties since 2020, driving most of the growth in rural America during that time..."

The House Just Passed The Biggest Medicaid Cut in U.S. History, Twice the Size of Reagan's Cuts So much for realignment. New analysis from UnidosUS shows the House’s cuts to Medicaid and SNAP are unprecedented, twice as large as anything under President Reagan,

I was curious how the Medicaid cuts the House passed stacked up historically. That's a big lift, but @standorn.bsky.social did the numbers.

It's the largest on record, twice the size of the early 1980s Reagan cuts. Same is true for SNAP. Here's my write-up:
mikekonczal.substack.com/p/the-house-...

Updated estimate from @budgetmodel.bsky.social on the bill that ultimately passed the House yesterday. Average person in bottom quintile gets 15% poorer next year. Average person in top 0.1% get 3% (~$400,000) richer budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/issues/2025/...

Wisconsin Watch wants to hear from Wisconsinites who are affected by the AmeriCorps cuts. You can mail reporter Trisha Young at tyoung@wisconsinwatch.org. @wisconsinwatch.org

House Republican Proposal to Eliminate Subsidized Student Loans Would Spike College Costs for Low-Income Students - The Institute for College Access & Success Author: Michele Zampini and Ellie Bruecker, Ph.D.

3/3 For more resources on what's at stake in House reconciliation, visit our resource hub: buff.ly/QpyTTqN

Resource Hub: Budget Reconciliation 2025 - The Institute for College Access & Success On April 29, the House Committee on Education and Workforce advanced a higher education proposal as part of the Republican party’s broader effort to pass a reconciliation package to implement…

2/3 Subsidized loans are targeted, need-based, and interest-free while in school—cutting them would deepen inequities in college access and affordability.

Read our latest analysis here: buff.ly/scwJ5DL

1/3 NEW | The House Reconciliation proposal to eliminate subsidized student loans would raise costs for millions of students from low-income backgrounds.

Fees are the hidden and growing way of increasing revenue, especially when Wisconsin had a decade-long tuition freeze.

UPDATE: Amid shaky economy, college students feel anxious about debt, survey says The latest education news updates from EdSource.

To make matters worse, 2 out of 3 students think their school is not doing enough to educate them about the nuts and bolts of personal finance, the survey shows.

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If your alma mater or university is not signed on, email the president/chancellor and explain your disappointment. Especially if it is a blue/purple state public or a private uni.

U.S. Department of Education to Begin Federal Student Loan Collections, Other Actions to Help Borrowers Get Back into Repayment The U.S. Department of Education announced its Office of Federal Student Aid (FSA) will resume collections of its defaulted federal student loan portfolio on Monday, May 5th. The Department has not co...

The Department of Ed just announced that they're going to help student loan borrowers on May 5. By resuming involuntary collections on defaulted loans.

www.ed.gov/about/news/p...

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We cannot let the Wayback Machine get deep-sixed, as it may be the only place we can find some govt docs/sites that this regime alters or "disappears." NPR article: is.gd/BsVRpI

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DOGE Is Building a Master Database to Surveil and Track Immigrants DOGE is knitting together data from the Department of Homeland Security, Social Security Administration, and IRS that could create a surveillance tool of unprecedented scope.

“They are trying to amass a huge amount of data,” a senior DHS official tells WIRED. “It has nothing to do with finding fraud or wasteful spending … They are already cross-referencing immigration with SSA and IRS as well as voter data.” www.wired.com/story/doge-c...