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Nadra Nittle
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Senators grill Linda McMahon on the education position she may not fill for long
Trump’s pick to lead DOE faced questions about whether she agrees with the president’s plan to close the department and enact Project 2025’s vision for schools.
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The 19th Explains: Can Trump eliminate the Department of Education?
The president can’t eliminate a federal agency with an executive order lawfully. But he can undermine its functions and redistribute duties.
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Education rules from 2020 are returning to 'protect women.' Are vulnerable students at risk?
Critics of Trump's education department view the dismissal of Biden's Title IX rewrite as yet another anti-trans attack.
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Trump's education department says book bans are a ‘hoax.’ Teachers disagree.
In South Carolina and nationally, the push against censorship continues under a Trump administration that denies reading restrictions are happening.
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Poet and activist Nikki Giovanni dies at 81
She was a key figure of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s who championed women’s power in civil rights activism — and their own lives.
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His controversial school board policies made national headlines. He was just elected again.
After losing a recall election in June, controversial former Temecula, California, school board president Joseph Komrosky will represent the district once again.
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McMahon would oversee student safety — but advocates worry about her own misconduct allegations
If she becomes education secretary, Linda McMahon could revise Title IX rules that serve to protect students from sex discrimination, including sexual violence.
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Trump picks Linda McMahon to be education secretary
McMahon, cofounder of the company now known as World Wrestling Entertainment, is the co-chair of the president-elect’s transition team but has scant experience in education.
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Families celebrate after judge rules on Ten Commandments law in Louisiana classrooms
A federal judge found the law requiring the Ten Commandments to be posted in all public school classrooms to be unconstitutional on Tuesday.
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She made a ‘joke’ about Obama’s execution. Now she’s running to lead North Carolina schools — and could win.
Michele Morrow’s Democratic opponent, Mo Green, and his supporters say the Republican’s “extremism” threatens the future of public education in the state.