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Anderson has been carrying her U.S. passport on her at all times since receiving the email and is seeking an immigration attorney.

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As the Trump administration takes Maine to court, here's a deeper look at how we got here and what's at stake - and not just for Maine. www.chalkbeat.org/2025/04/12/t...

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I have been wondering this.

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After 2 mos of confusion, EDSec McMahon just issued a press release confirming that the 2026 NAEP is on schedule and she called the exam "critical" tool for assessing student preparedness. However, I am told that severe cuts to the assessment operation still loom. (1/4)

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Thrilled to see @michaelelsenroo.bsky.social named a Deadline Club finalist!

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A very helpful interactive graphic on tariffs proposed, enacted, canceled, etc. www.washingtonpost.com/business/int...

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What kind of standing do we even have now to defend our citizen who criticized a foreign government? www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

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New York said it won't comply with a demand that schools certify compliance with the Trump administration's interpretation of civil rights law. Vermont is taking a different approach, saying this is simply re-certifying compliance with existing law. vtdigger.org/2025/04/07/v...

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Antibiotic resistant disease is up there with climate change in my mind in terms of things that could devastate the truly blessed state of existence we've enjoyed in the second half of the 20th century. We should, uh, try to stay on top of that. Not ... whatever this is.

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"If the virus continues to spread at this pace, the country risks losing its measles elimination status, a hard-fought victory earned in 2000." // www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/h...

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New York will not comply with an order from President Donald Trump’s administration to certify that school districts are eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025...

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Peace Corps is much more successful as a cultural exchange program than as a development organization, but I would be really sad to see it go away. And it would be shameful to strand volunteers the way they stranded USAID workers. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

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I guess I'm too late to stock up on essentials?

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Asked my first year students about problems and solutions in American education after 11 weeks of discussing inequality. Here were their answers:

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Cory Booker breaks the record for longest Senate speech, previously held by segregationist Strom Thurmond.

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When I lived in Paraguay, one presidential candidate's entire platform was pardoning the popular exiled coup-leading general, having his VP resign, appointing the general to be the new VP, then resigning as president, so the general could become president.

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The Trump administration says one of its primary goals in education is to expand school choice and put power back in the hands of parents. Yet it has killed the main way to track one of the most rapidly growing options. hechingerreport.org/proof-points...

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A number of court challenges to policies that allow students to use different pronouns and names at school without parental notification have not succeeded. Now the Trump administration is investigating whether California law violates FERPA.

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NCME and our organizational colleagues call on Congress to protect federal educational databases, including ensuring that expert staff remain to maintain them: www.aera.net/Portals/38/E... For other recent @ncme38.bsky.social actions in support of our members, see here: www.ncme.org/blogs/nathan...

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The Department of Health and Human Services has abruptly canceled more than $12 billion in federal grants to states that were being used for tracking infectious diseases, mental health services, addiction treatment and other urgent health issues. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/h...

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A GOP senator "said social-emotional learning and trauma-informed care 'minimize the focus on core academics,' and add to the demands on teachers 'who already claim to be overworked and underpaid.'" www.chalkbeat.org/indiana/2025... via @aleksappleton.bsky.social

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NEW: This morning Trump said he wanted to move services for students with disabilities out of the Education Department and to Health and Human Services. Many experts say he can't do that without an act of Congress. Here's what we know — w/ @ericameltzer.bsky.social www.chalkbeat.org/2025/03/22/t...

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NEW: Trump has finally signed the long-awaited executive order asking Linda McMahon to take steps to close the Education Department. Here's what we know so far — via @ericameltzer.bsky.social @andrewujifusa.bsky.social & me www.chalkbeat.org/2025/03/20/t...

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Five years on, the impact of COVID-era closures continue to reverberate through the American education system and in the lives of students, parents, and teachers. www.chalkbeat.org/2025/03/18/h...

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FIRST PERSON: The kids are alright. It's the teachers who are scarred by COVID. www.chalkbeat.org/2025/03/18/h...

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Much of the content has been scrubbed not by individual units, but by an automated script run by DoD’s public web administrators. That automated process has led to “a high level of irresponsible collateral damage,” one defense official said.

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The US military just purged their website of mentions of the Holocaust, 9/11 remembrance, cancer awareness, sexual assault, and suicide prevention to align with their new “anti-DEI” policies.

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Deja vu all over again. www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

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Three families say their loved ones were never in a gang but were caught in the government's dragnet www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

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The history here is instructive: before Roe, prosecutions tended to focus on non-physicians, and disproportionately on midwives, especially those who weren't white. We see the same now--and for strategic reasons. This isn't the first prosecution Paxton could bring but the one his office chose.

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Indigenous Americans have enlisted in the U.S. military at a rate five times the national average, per Trump's own proclamation in 2018. That proclamation has also been removed.

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Normalize posting links and not just screenshots of articles.

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Hard to overstate the devastation that will be caused over the long term by these cuts to IES and NCES. A true catastrophe. hechingerreport.org/proof-points...

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Linda McMahon’s first official K-12 visit: A Bronx charter school https://www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025/03/14/education-secretary-linda-mchahon-visits-bronx-charter-school/

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Kind of paranoid right now because I'm cooking something that literally caught fire in the oven the last time I cooked it.

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Re-reading this story in 2025 is a real trip. www.chalkbeat.org/2020/3/3/211...

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It's always a weird feeling when someone you covered dies. A remarkable life and a powerful voice for southern Arizona. May his memory be a blessing. apnews.com/article/raul...

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Education Department cuts are "dangerous, reckless, and unacceptable,” Michigan AG says. Twenty-one Democratic AGs are suing to block layoffs they say add up to the dismantling of the department without congressional approval. From @lorihiggins.bsky.social www.chalkbeat.org/detroit/2025...

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MN Dept of Ed says the federal layoffs have already started affecting districts' ability to draw down federal funds: www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0...

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Lawsuit argues that massive layoffs amount to the same thing as ending many of the department's functions without going through Congress, cites Secretary Linda McMahon's statements on Fox News that this is the first step to eliminating the Education Department.

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Texas for years maintained an unofficial and illegal cap on special education. The U.S. Department of Education (under Trump!) found that Texas violated the rights of students with disabilities and owed services to many students.

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🎙️ON AIR: We're speaking with Chronicle's @erickelderman.bsky.social and @chalkbeat.org 's @ericameltzer.bsky.social about Trump's education cuts and why the Department of Education has long been in Republican crosshairs. ❓ What concerns do you have about cuts? 📻 Listen:

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