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SCOTUS lifts block on Trump’s plan to dismantle Education Department
The Supreme Court ruled to allow the Trump administration to proceed with mass layoffs within the U.S. Department o…
By Emily Sturge  
Jul 15, 2025
Trump admin sues California over girls’ sports policy, cites ‘deeply unfair’ rules
The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division filed the lawsuit in an effort to stop state policies that allow ath…
By Emily Sturge  
Jul 14, 2025
California defies federal order to bar males from girls’ sports
California state officials have formally rejected a federal resolution requiring them to prohibit biological males …
By Campus Reform 
Jul 8, 2025
Smith College hit with federal complaint over transgender admissions policies
Smith College is under federal investigation after a complaint accused it of violating Title IX by admitting trans-…
By CJ Womack '25
Jul 5, 2025
Blue state AGs urge McMahon to keep DEI grant funding
18 Democratic Attorneys General sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Education urging continued federal funding …
By Claire  Harrington '25
Jun 25, 2025
Campbell University faces civil rights complaint over sex- and race-based scholarships
A recently filed civil rights complaint argues that Campbell University in Buies Creek, North Carolina offers discr…
By Brendan  McDonald '25
Jun 25, 2025
Education Department unveils grants to teach Founding documents ahead of America’s 250th birthday
In celebration of the country’s 250th birthday, the U.S. Department of Education has announced a new grant program …
By Brendan  McDonald '25
Jun 24, 2025
University of Louisville faces civil rights complaint over race-based scholarships
The University of Louisville is among the latest schools to be the subject to a civil rights complaint due to six d…
By Brendan  McDonald '25
Jun 16, 2025
Male pitcher wins Minnesota girls softball title, triggers special federal investigation
The Department of Education escalated its probes into the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) and the Minnesot…
By Emily Sturge  
Jun 13, 2025
Trump admin investigates University of Wyoming for allowing male to join sorority
The University of Wyoming’s Kappa Kappa Gamma chapter inducted a male member in 2022, but the university asserts it…
By Emily Sturge  
Jun 10, 2025
Trump administration investigates Cal Poly Humboldt over alleged anti-Semitic attacks
The U.S. Department of Education has launched an investigation into Cal Poly Humboldt after complaints alleged the …
By Patrick  McDonald '26
Jun 5, 2025
Education Department informs major accreditor that Columbia violates federal law, accreditation standards
The U.S. Department of Education has informed a major accreditor that the Ivy League university has contravened fed…
By Jack  Roberts 
Jun 4, 2025
UConn hit with civil rights complaint for race-based scholarships
In a complaint filed last week, the Equal Protection Project asserts that the University of Connecticut is offering…
By Brendan  McDonald '25
Jun 3, 2025
CA boy wins girls' track events days after McMahon warned state's trans athlete policy 'absolutely' violates Title IX
The Education Secretary blasted California in a recent Fox News interview for allowing boys to compete in girls' sp…
By Will Biagini  
Jun 2, 2025
$30M in federal student aid went to deceased individuals, Ed Dept found
The Dept. of Education (ED) found nearly $90 million in federal student aid fraudulent payments, including more tha…
By Emily Sturge  
Jun 2, 2025
Judge temporarily blocks Trump admin's push to eliminate Education Department
A federal judge issued an injunction halting President Trump’s executive order to dismantle the U.S. Department of …
By Patrick  McDonald '26
May 28, 2025
Southern Illinois University accused of offering unlawful race-based scholarships in federal complaint
A nonprofit organization recently filed a discrimination complaint against Southern Illinois University Carbondale …
By Patrick  McDonald '26
May 25, 2025
Louisiana House moves to codify anti-DEI measures into law
The Louisiana House of Representatives passed new legislation aimed at prohibiting public universities from requiri…
By Patrick  McDonald '26
May 22, 2025
Harvard accepted over $1.4B from foreign sources, Campus Reform audit finds
Campus Reform obtained data from the Dept. of Education and found that Harvard accepted more than $295 million from…
By Emily Sturge  
Apr 30, 2025
Education Department demands Harvard University release more records on its foreign funding
The U.S. Department of Education, under Secretary Linda McMahon, has heightened its scrutiny of Harvard University,…
By CJ Womack '25
Apr 25, 2025
Trump admin. to withhold defaulted student loan borrowers' tax refunds and wages: VIDEO
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt warned that borrowers who fail to pay their loans will face involuntar…
By Emily Sturge  
Apr 24, 2025
Trump admin reviews $9B in Harvard federal funding over anti-Semitism concerns
'Harvard can right these wrongs and restore itself to a campus dedicated to academic excellence and truth-seeking, …
By Emily Sturge  
Apr 2, 2025
Trump admin freezes $210M to Princeton over anti-Semitism after Title VI complaint from Campus Reform’s Zachary Marschall
Marschall’s complaint, filed in January 2024, claimed that the school took no serious steps to combat anti-Semitism…
By Elad Vaida 
Apr 2, 2025
Department of Education cuts Biden-era taxpayer-funded services for illegal immigrant students
The Dept. of Education is revoking waivers to colleges and universities in California and Oregon that used federal …
By Emily Sturge  
Mar 28, 2025
Linda McMahon says Columbia must fully comply with Trump admin's demands to have federal funds restored
Education Secretary Linda McMahon recently stated that, in order to have its federal funding restored, Columbia Uni…
By Patrick  McDonald '26
Mar 26, 2025
40% of $1.8 trillion student loans are late on payments as Trump seeks to abolish Dept. of Ed
President Trump has announced that the Small Business Administration, instead of the Department of Education, will …
By Elad Vaida 
Mar 21, 2025
Trump signs executive order to end Department of Education
Trump previously claimed he had told Secretary of Education Linda McMahon: ‘I hope you do a great job and put yours…
By Elad Vaida 
Mar 20, 2025
Department of Education opens Title VI investigation into Vanderbilt University: EXCLUSIVE
The Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights opened a Title VI investigation into Vanderbilt University ov…
By Adam Sabes 
Mar 18, 2025
Reps. Comer, Foxx call for Dept. of Education help in investigating foreign funding into American universities
The letter criticized the Biden administration’s ‘lax approach to monitoring Section 117 disclosures.’
By Pedro Rodriguez '26
Mar 17, 2025
60 universities will face consequences if they fail to protect Jewish students, Dept. of Education warns
The U.S. Department of Education sent letters to 60 universities warning they are under investigation by the depart…
By Emily Sturge  
Mar 11, 2025
Chair of House Committee on Education and the Workforce backs Trump's plan to end Dept of Ed
The chairman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce has expressed support for abolishing the Departm…
By Campus Reform 
Mar 7, 2025
Trump admin ends $400 million in contracts to Columbia as a 'notice' to schools failing to protect Jewish students
The Trump administration announced that is terminating $400 million to Columbia University for its insufficient res…
By Jack  Roberts 
Mar 7, 2025
‘MISSION-CRITICAL’: Law professors band together to write memo calling on schools to disobey Trump anti-DEI executive order
DEI programs ‘cultivate more diverse, equitable, and inclusive institutions,’ according to the memo signers.
By Elad Vaida 
Mar 7, 2025
Dept of Ed scraps $15 million in funding of DEI-based grants at three universities
The U.S. Department of Education recently ceased roughly $15 million in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) grant…
By Patrick  McDonald '26
Mar 5, 2025
Linda McMahon confirmed as next Secretary of Education
Businesswoman and former Small Business Administration head Linda McMahon has officially been confirmed as Secretar…
By Jack  Roberts 
Mar 4, 2025
Dept. of Ed employees offered $25k to quit ahead of layoffs
Employees at the Department of Education received an email offering a buyout of $25,000 to quit or retire by Monday…
By Emily Sturge  
Mar 3, 2025
'LGBTQ+ words for elementary students': 10 ways Maine's Department of Education spends its money
Maine receives $358.4 million in federal funding for K-12 education and refuses to comply with Trump's executive or…
By Emily Sturge  
Mar 3, 2025
DOGE reveals most savings at Dept. of Education with nearly $1B cut
DOGE claims to have saved the most money at the U.S. Department of Education out of any government agency through c…
By Emily Sturge  
Feb 28, 2025
Department of Education announces launch of 'End DEI' portal
The Department of Education launched a new portal aimed at combatting DEI in education.
By Adam Sabes 
Feb 28, 2025
American Bar Association suspends DEI requirement for law schools
The American Bar Association (ABA) suspended its Diversity, Equity and Inclusion requirement for law schools follow…
By Emily Sturge  
Feb 24, 2025
ANALYSIS: The women’s sports legal battle has just begun
President Donald Trump recently signed his executive order titled ‘Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports.'
By Emily Sturge  
Feb 24, 2025
PROF. GIORDANO: Congress must dismantle the Department of Education
The elimination of the Department of Education isn’t a radical idea. It was only founded in its current form in 197…
By Nicholas Giordano 
Feb 24, 2025
Education Department's DEI efforts included promotion of child 'sex work,' conservative activist says
Officials at the U.S. Department of Education have recently called for the destigmatization of child 'sex work' and…
By Patrick  McDonald '26
Feb 21, 2025
Circuit court judge axes Biden plan to end $475 billion in student loans
Biden’s student loan cancellation plans have consistently run into legal challenges.
By Elad Vaida 
Feb 19, 2025
Dept. of Ed stops more than $600 million from funding CRT, DEI, other ‘divisive ideologies’
The topics being defunded included “Critical Race Theory; Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI); social justice ac…
By Elad Vaida 
Feb 19, 2025
Dept. of Ed to cut off money to colleges, universities, K-12 schools that promote DEI
‘Discrimination on the basis of race, color, or national origin is illegal and morally reprehensible,’ the letter s…
By Elad Vaida 
Feb 18, 2025
Dept. of Ed urges NCAA to rescind records, awards from men playing in women's divisions
This move follows President Donald Trump's recent executive order titled ‘Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports,' which…
By Emily Sturge  
Feb 14, 2025
LIVE UPDATES: Senate committee holds hearing on Linda McMahon's nomination for Secretary of Education
Linda McMahon was nominated by President Trump to be the Secretary of Education.
By Adam Sabes 
Feb 13, 2025
Office for Civil Rights launches investigations into UPenn, SJSU for trans athlete controversies
The Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights will investigate several universities for high-profile instan…
By Campus Reform 
Feb 12, 2025
STURGE: DOGE axes over $1 billion in DEI spending
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has reportedly saved the United States over $1 billion in DEI contra…
By Emily Sturge  
Feb 11, 2025