Department of Education

Government watchdog Protect the Public’s Trust (PPT) filed a lawsuit Thursday seeking records from the Department of Justice (DOJ) showing the timeline surrounding Attorney General Merrick Garland’s decision to sic the FBI on parents opposed to Critical Race Theory.

Male students are abandoning the pursuit of higher education in such numbers that they are now trailing behind female college students by record levels, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. At the end of the 2020-21 academic year, women made up 59.5 percent of college students, while men made up 40.5 percent, according to enrollment data from the National Student Clearinghouse. 

Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona will continue targeting governors who have fought back against school mask mandates, warning Wednesday he plans to conduct “civil rights investigations” and take possible legal action against states with bans or limitations on the mandates.

President Joe Biden’s education secretary is trying to undermine GOP Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s ban on mask wearing in schools by offering school districts money to not comply with the ban.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren is using the confirmation of Biden’s pick for undersecretary of education as a way to advance student loan forgiveness.

Glenn Loury, a Brown University economics professor and host of the video blog The Glenn Show, criticized the need for affirmative action policies in education during the current era. Speaking at Malibu’s Pepperdine University School of Public Policy earlier this month, he explained black students do poorly on tests when they “don’t know the material” and not due to biases against them, urging educators to develop potential instead of lowering standards.

Seth Andrew, a former adviser in the White House under President Barack Obama, has been arrested for a scheme to steal $218,005 from a charter school network he founded, according to federal authorities.

Thursday on FNC’s “Fox News Primetime,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) discussed education policy under the new Biden administration, specifically as it pertains to the pandemic.

President Trump signed an executive order on Monday that would provide emergency scholarships for students affected by school closures.

The U.S. Department of Education recently launched a “free speech hotline” for students that are being deprived of their First Amendment rights at public universities and colleges around the nation. Students are also encouraged to email a dedicated email set up by the department to report censorship by administrators, professors, and students on campus.

The Department of Education published a report on Tuesday that found American colleges are illegally failing to report large gifts from foreign sources.

The U.S. Education Department has revealed that top universities, such as Cornell, MIT, and Georgetown, have failed to disclose billions of dollars they have accepted in foreign funds. Universities have failed to report at least $6.5 billion to the government according to the report, including money from the Chinese government, Huawei, and other countries.

Conservative women’s group wins complaint against university’s policy that allows biological males to compete against female athletes.

The attorney for a Fordham University student that was disciplined by administrators over a photo he posted to Instagram alleged in a recent court filing that the University has undisclosed ties to foreign nations, including China. Over the past several months, reports have revealed that many top universities and colleges have accepted multi-million donations from foreign governments.

Connecticut could lose federal funding for its policy to allow biological males to compete against biological females in sports competitions.

The Education Department informed Princeton it is investigating the school following an admission by its president “racist assumptions” are “embedded” within the school.

The Department of Education announced this week that it is investigating Princeton University in response to a claim by Princeton President Christopher Eisgruber that “racism” is “embedded in the structures” of the university.

Conservative black leaders are pushing back against the New York Time’s “1619 project” with the “1776 Unites” U.S. history curriculum.

Democrats are not happy about a Department of Education decision to withhold federal funding from Connecticut schools for violating Title IX’s discrimination statute by allowing biological men who claim to be transgender women, to compete agains biological women in high school and college sports.

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut policy that allows transgender athletes to compete as girls in high school sports violates the civil rights of athletes who have always identified as female, according to a letter from the U.S. Education Department’s civil rights office that was obtained Thursday by The Associated Press.

Several universities around the nation are currently under investigation by the Department of Education over their alleged financial ties to the Chinese government. A report published this week suggests that many universities are refusing to comply with a standard request to produce internal documents.

Institutes of higher education are in the business of educating, but California community colleges are focused on suing the federal government for not providing money to students attending these schools who are not citizens but are protected from deportation for being in the country illegally through the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).

The Education Department released its final rule that specifies how schools receiving federal aid must respond to allegations of sexual misconduct.

The University of Portland is facing an investigation by the Department of Education over the exclusion of white students and faculty from a feminist student organization. The investigation is the result of a complaint by University of Michigan-Flint Professor Mark J. Perry who alleged that the practice constitutes a violation of Title VI, which prohibits discrimination based on race and color.

The United States Department of Education is investigating the University of Texas over links to the Chinese lab in Wuhan potentially involved in the origin of the Chinese virus, along with the university’s ties to companies including Huawei and Zoom, the popular video conferencing app criticized for its poor security.

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Rep Jim Jordan (R-OH) said on Wednesday that they plan to introduce legislation that would bar universities with “massive” endowments from federal aid unless their plan to use the endowments to help students and cover the costs of the coronavirus. 

“Borrowers should contact their lenders,” Trump said, adding that it was “going to make a lot of students happy.” 

At least 10,600 schools have been closed or are scheduled to close in the United States as of Thursday night due to the novel coronavirus, a number that is over 8,500 more than Wednesday’s number of 2,097.

Former Vice President Joe Biden appeared to reverse course on charter schools during Saturday’s MSNBC Public Education Forum 2020 in Pittsburgh.

The DOJ issued a Statement of Interest on Monday regarding Jones County Junior College in Ellisville, Mississippi, which is facing a lawsuit alleging that the public school threatened students with arrest for exercising their First Amendment rights on campus. “[The school’s] unconstitutional conduct cannot stand,” reads the DOJ’s Statement. “It should comply voluntarily with the First Amendment — and soon.”

Audrey and Richard McIntosh are fighting to change the Title IX process in higher education after their son was expelled from college.

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) unveiled her new bill to rein in government agency public relations and advertising spending on mascots, koozies, and fidget spinners on Breitbart News Daily.

A student at UCLA has filed a complaint with the Department of Education alleging that her university supports antisemitism.

The Trump administration is calling on the University of North Carolina (UNC) and Duke University to revise their joint Middle Eastern studies program or lose taxpayer funding. According to the Department of Education, the program offers very few, “if any,” programs focused on the historic discrimination against religious minorities in the Middle East, and lacks balance, focusing on the “positive aspects of Islam” while having an “absolute absence” of a similar focus on the positive aspects of Christianity and Judaism.

The Clarion Project has issued an analysis showing how billions of foreign dollars have been infused into American colleges and universities.

Rep. Andy Barr said at a House Financial Services Committee hearing that Congress created the $1.5 trillion student loan debt crisis.

President Trump and Ivanka Trump hosted a gathering Thursday to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the Pledge to American Workers.

President Trump said Saturday that Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) received “too much credit” for attacking Joe Biden (D) during Thursday night’s Democrat debate.

Fact check FALSE: Joe Biden said he only opposed “busing ordered by the Department of Education.” The problem: it didn’t exist yet.

Betsy DeVos and the Department of Education have opened an investigation into antisemitism at the University of North Carolina and Duke University consortium.