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In its push against diversity and equity programs, the Education Department cancelled more than 100 TRIO programs serving nearly 45,000 students nationwide.
Three years into the LEARNS Act, Arkansas has never permanently barred a single school from its voucher program — not even the one where a 13-year-old was beaten. A former state senator lays out what the money buys, and what it doesn't.
Arkansas invented a new kind of school called a microschool, sent it voucher money, and decided it isn't a private school and doesn't get routine visits. There are 142 of them now. One collapsed three weeks before classes started.
Ramaswamy is running for Ohio governor on taking the state's school-choice programs "to the next level." His official biography credits a teacher at his "Greater Cincinnati public school" and reduces St. Xavier — the private Jesuit school he attended grades nine through twelve — to "his Cincinnati high school."
More than 100 TRIO programs serving nearly 45,000 low-income, first-generation students were terminated. In California, 13 schools lost $6 million and 7,000 students lost services. The administration now proposes eliminating all $1.2 billion of TRIO.
A Republican governor signed the Texas Dream Act in 2001 with bipartisan support. In 2025 the Justice Department sued, Paxton's office agreed the law was illegal, and a judge struck it down before anyone who relied on it could be heard. The DOJ has now sued 21 states.
Wonder school's expenses beat its revenue in five of six years. The Lahns propped it up with $615,000 in loans, and the debt reached $4.5 million. They are the school's officers, its only publicly disclosed trustees, and its largest creditor — a conflict Wonder has disclosed to the IRS every year since 2021.
Constituents protested outside Carey's Columbus office over his vote for Trump's budget bill. The event's organizers counted 12% of households in Ohio's 15th District on SNAP and $40.4 million in special education funding at risk. Carey's office did not respond to a request for comment.
Abbott wants a law banning Texas public schools from sponsoring H-1B visas — applied to teachers already here, not just new hires. Districts use those visas to fill critical teacher shortages, in roles such as bilingual education.