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Education Policy

Education Department changes, school funding, book bans, and curriculum battles.

  1. 2026

    6 items
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    constitutioncenter.org
    supremecourt.gov
    aaup.org
    Apr 29

    House hearing examines First Amendment on college campuses

    Witnesses split on who poses the greater campus free speech risk

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    8 figures

  2. 2025

    14 items
    Jun 7

    U.S. District Court blocks Labor Department from closing Job Corps under Workforce Innovation Act

    Judge blocks Trump's shutdown of 60-year-old Job Corps training program

    Lori Chavez-DeRemer
    Donald Trump
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    Susan Collins
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    6 figures
    Trump administration cuts more than $1 billion in school mental health grants
    Education Department stops $1 billion in funding for school mental health
    Congress wanted schools to hire more mental health staff. The Trump administration took an ax to that bipartisan plan.
    May 8

    Education Department consolidates 18 Title I programs eliminating $4.5 billion

    Trump administration consolidates 18 K-12 programs, slashing $4.5B in afterschool, rural school, and literacy grants—Linda McMahon's Education Department redirects federal funds to block grants while Russell Vought's OMB withholds releases

    Donald Trump
    Russell Vought
    Linda McMahon
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    C
    5 figures
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    Congressional Control of Agency Decision Making: An Analysis of Recent Proposals to Constrain Agency Discretion
    Can the President Dismantle the Department of Education by Executive Order?
    State Constitutional Provisions on Education
    Mar 15

    Executive order targets Education Department as Congress holds sole authority

    Dismantling Education Department would transform how schools get funded

    Donald Trump
    Linda McMahon
    Bill Cassidy
    Earl Warren
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    5 figures
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    Here Are Trump's First-Week Actions That Could Affect Schools
    Improving Education Outcomes by Empowering Parents, States, and Communities
    Mar 15

    OMB cuts Education budget as Senate delays McMahon confirmation

    Education Department closure shifts federal school funding to states

    Donald Trump
    Linda McMahon
    D
    3 figures

  3. 2017

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  4. 2015

    2 items

  5. 2002

    1 item

  6. 1994

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Key figures in Education Policy

41 figures
Linda McMahon
Secretary of Education
Donald Trump
President of the United States
Russell Vought
OMB director
Shelley Moore Capito
U.S. Representative - WV
Andrew Carter Jr.
U.S. District Judge, Southern District of New York
Becky Pringle
Union leader
Bill Cassidy
Senate Education Committee Chair
Bill Clinton
42nd President of the United States
Birch Bayh
Burgess Owens
Chair, Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development (R-UT)
Carl Perkins
Caspar Weinberger
Secretary of Defense
Cynthia Kirk
Working parent
Dabney Friedrich
U.S. District Judge, District of Columbia
Dale Kildee
Denise Carter
Career Education Department official
Earl Warren
Democratic Senator
Edith Green
Edward Kennedy
Emerson Sykes
Senior Staff Attorney, American Civil Liberties Union
French Hill
Chairman, House Committee on Financial Services (R-AR)
Jimmy Gomez
U.S. Representative (D-CA)
John Roberts
Chief Justice, U.S. Supreme Court
Jud Horras
President and CEO, North American Interfraternity Conference
Justice Jackson
Associate Justice
Justice Kagan
Associate Justice
Justice Sotomayor
Associate Justice
Kevin Roberts
Heritage Foundation President
Lindsay James
New York Attorney General
Lori Chavez-DeRemer
U.S. Secretary of Labor
Lucy McBath
Member of Congress
Lyndon B. Johnson
Former President
Mark Harris
U.S. Representative (R-NC), House Education and Workforce Committee
Nita Lowey
Patsy Mink
Richard Nixon
37th President of the United States
Robert Aderholt
U.S. Representative - AL District 4
Steven McGuire
Paul and Karen Levy Fellow in Campus Freedom, American Council of Trustees and Alumni
Susan Collins
Republican Senator (Maine), Chair of Senate Appropriations Committee
Tyson Langhofer
Senior Counsel and Director, Center for Academic Freedom, Alliance Defending Freedom
William Ford