Columbia University announced a historic deal with the Trump administration on Wednesday, agreeing to pay a $200 million fine, as well as $21 million to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to settle antisemitism allegations in exchange for the return of massive amounts of federal funding.
Columbia University reached an agreement with the Trump administration to settle allegations that it failed to stop antisemitism on campus, part of a major deal worked out on Wednesday to restore the school’s federal research funding, the university announced.
The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has opened investigations into five universities to determine whether they are granting exclusionary scholarships for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) or undocumented students in violation of civil rights law.
Harvard alum and PragerU contributor Shabbos Kestenbaum told Breitbart News editor-in-chief Alex Marlow that his Alma mater is not even trying to dispute President Donald Trump’s claims that the Ivy League school is engaging in civil rights violations, indoctrination, and discrimination. Instead, Harvard is arguing that “the way” the Trump administration “went about it is wrong” as the university pushes to continue using U.S. taxpayer money to “to subsidize political indoctrination.”
A primary school in the U.K. is taking heat for pushing transgender actor Elliot Page as an ideal example of “masculinity.”
The White House plans to introduce a second rescissions package that would include cuts to education funding, the Daily Signal first reported on Tuesday, citing sources familiar with the matter.
The budget reconciliation package passed earlier this month contains a provision that allows the federal government to subsidize private-school tuition through tax credits for donations to nonprofit scholarship granting organizations (SGOs).
An archaeologist couple have uncovered a 4th century Mayan ruler’s tomb in Belize, and inside it were unbelievable treasures.
Rep. Mary Miller accused National Education Association (NEA) president Becky Pringle of “blatant partisanship” in an exclusive statement to Breitbart News.
Teacher seriously injured at a musical performance by elementary school pupils on Wednesday night, Dutch police said.
Pringle added that NEA will fight “Trump’s illegal and destructive dismantling of the Department of Education…in and outside of court.”
President Donald Trump praised the Supreme Court’s decision this week allowing the Department of Education to proceed with slashing half of its workforce in an effort to cut down on unnecessary bureaucracy.
Republican lawmakers are set to introduce a bill on Wednesday that would strip the nation’s largest teachers union, the National Education Association (NEA), of its federal charter.
The Department of Education on Tuesday announced a foreign funding investigation into the University of Michigan (UM), citing “inaccurate and incomplete disclosures” in the school’s foreign reports and pointing to the school’s history of ties to China.
The Supreme Court issued a 6-3 ruling on Monday allowing President Donald Trump’s Department of Education to resume efforts to slash its workforce in half.
A report has found that almost two million students do not speak English as their native language in England as a result of the mass migration agenda imposed upon the country by the Westminster establishment.
A young man, the victim of a teacher who has been charged with criminal sexual conduct with a minor that began when he was a young teen, is publicly speaking out and advocating for justice and prevention, a rare occurrence in such cases.
Dr. Shoshana Shendelman, a trustee of Columbia University, wrote a demand letter to the members of the university’s board on Monday, insisting that the institution comply with the Trump administration’s demands.
Auburn University linebacker D’Angelo Barber was cut from the team after being arrested on drug charges in Alabama during a 9 a.m. traffic stop Monday morning.
The Department of Education (DOE) on Thursday announced it will end taxpayer subsidization of career, technical, and adult education programs for illegal immigrants.
The DOJ sued California after the DOE found the state had discriminated against women by allowing males in girls’ sports and spaces.
The American Federation of Teachers has partnered with tech companies including OpenAI, Microsoft, and Anthropic to establish a national AI training hub for educators. The union is supportive of AI in the classroom despite troubling research that shows regular usage of chatbots can impact the cognitive function of young people.
Researchers have discovered that the emergence of AI large language models (LLMs) has led to a detectable increase in specific word choices within academic literature, suggesting that AI-generated content is quietly infiltrating peer-reviewed scientific publications.
California announced that the state would not be protecting girls’ K-12 sports from transgender-identifying athletes and would continue to allow them to participate in girls’ sports.
A high school soccer coach and his wife were reported to be among the people who died in the devastating flash flood in Texas over Independence Day weekend.
A Muslim student organisation has been barred from holding any further events at Germany’s prestigious Charité university over accusations of segregating events by sex.
Democrats have hit another historic low in that just over one-third of them are either very or extremely proud to be an American, while Gen Z stands out as the least proud generation, a recent Gallup survey finds.
A hacker has stolen a vast trove of sensitive data from Columbia University, including personal information and application details of millions of current and former students, according to a Bloomberg News investigation.
Harvard University could face a billion dollar budget shortfall if it loses its battle against the Trump administration, which has sought to make an example out of the school over concerns about antisemitism and DEI policies.
An ex-teacher in Illinois, accused of sexually abusing a 15-year-old student numerous times, reportedly asked a judge to let her move closer to the victim.
The University of California system has announced that boycotts of Israel will be banned, thanks to pressure from President Donald Trump and his administration, including the new university antisemitism task force.
In her previous role as the co-chair of Columbia University’s board of trustees, now acting president Claire Shipman privately pushed for the school to get an “Arab on our board,” and later suggested that a Jewish trustee be removed over her pro-Israel advocacy, text messages obtained by the House Committee on Education and Workforce show.
Parents are concerned after a third teacher in Albuquerque, New Mexico, was arrested in a month for inappropriate behavior with students.
Officials in Washington, DC, have ended the practice called redshirting where parents enroll their child late into kindergarten.
President Donald Trump’s White House will reportedly announce an AI education initiative next week that seeks to partner with more than 60 companies to provide AI education materials to K-12 students the next four years.
On Monday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “Greg Kelly Reports,” Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Harmeet Dhillon stated that virtually no American university has followed federal law on non-discrimination in admissions, “and particularly the most elite ones. They have
On Monday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “Greg Kelly Reports,” Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Harmeet Dhillon stated that Columbia University has tried to say that it’s working to fix problems at the school, but they’re being dishonest because
Anti-Israel campus protests, like the infamous and sometimes violent demonstrations at Columbia University, are a symptom of a culture that is focused more on destruction than on creation and innovation, Columbia Trustee Dr. Shoshana Shendelman explained during an appearance on Breitbart News Daily.
Zohran Mamdani, the presumptive Democratic Party nominee for New York City mayor, has radical roots — notably his father, Mahmood, a prominent postcolonial scholar at Columbia University.
A Trump administration inquiry has concluded that Harvard University knowingly violated the civil rights of Jewish and Israeli students, acting with “deliberate indifference” when it learned about what was happening.
