Wagner College, a small, private liberal arts college on Staten Island in New York has agreed to comply with the Trump administration’s restrictions on transgender student-athletes following a federal investigation that stemmed from an incident at a women’s fencing competition in March, the Education Department announced Friday. The department’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) launched…
Tariff concerns are affecting parents as they begin back-to-school shopping early to avoid the higher costs they believe are coming for school supplies, according to a Wednesday survey from U.S. News. Sixty percent of parents surveyed already began back-to-school shopping as 62 percent said they expect to pay more this year than last year, according…
Carrie, a single mother currently between jobs, had a student loan payment of $0 per month under the Saving on Valuable Education (SAVE) repayment plan. After a court ruling against SAVE, and pro-student debt forgiveness President Biden being replaced by President Trump, she acted fast to switch to an income-driven repayment (IDR) plan to secure…
President Trump will sign an executive order on Thursday to reestablish the Presidential Fitness Test, a controversial relic of the Cold War era that former President Obama abandoned in 2012. The executive order would create programs for schools to reward “excellence in physical education,” White House officials told CNN, and aims to address “the widespread…
A small group of professors at Harvard has sent a letter to university leadership urging them not to cross certain lines as the nation’s oldest and richest school engages in negotiations with the Trump administration, which has withheld billions in federal funding to the school. The letter, addressed to Harvard President Alan Garber, members of…
TANNER, Ala. (WHNT) — Many 13-year-old boys spend their time playing video games or sports, tackling the challenges of middle school. Not Van-Houston McMillion. Instead, he is getting ready to start classes at Alabama’s Calhoun Community College. Decatur nonprofit giving away school supplies, other necessities On Tuesday afternoon, the 13-year-old toured the campus and met…
President Trump celebrated the deal Brown University struck with the administration to restore funding Thursday, another notch under the president’s belt in his war with higher education. “Congratulations to Brown University on the settlement made with the United States Government. There will be no more Anti-Semitism, or Anti-Christian, or Anti-Anything Else!” Trump posted on Truth…
UVALDE, Texas (KXAN) — Officials plan to use artificial intelligence (AI) to help Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District monitor its campus cameras in an effort to bolster security at schools. Three years after the mass shooting at Robb Elementary that left 19 students and two teachers dead, an AI gun detection company is giving the…
Brown University on Wednesday announced a deal with the Trump administration that ends three investigations into the institution and restores research funding that was withheld from it. The administration halted more than $500 million to Brown back in April and had opened probes assessing the university’s compliance with antidiscrimination laws. The deal restores that money,…
The Trump administration has frozen $108 million to Duke University just days after it launched an investigation into alleged race-based discrimination at the institution. The frozen funds from the National Institutes of Health will affect the Duke University School of Medicine, according to a senior administration official. The Hill has reached out to…
