A guide to what the U.S. Education Department does (and doesn't) do
Over and over, President Donald Trump and his colleagues have pointed to the U.S. Education Department as a poster child for government overreach. In fact, Republicans have been calling for the department's dissolution ever since its birth.
That effort reached a new level this week, as the president began exploring dramatic cuts to programs and staff at the department, including an executive action shuttering programs that are not protected by law and calling on Congress to close the department entirely.
How Student Loans Will Be Affected by Department of Education Closing Down
President Donald Trump is soon expected to shut down the Department of Education (DoE), after the Federal News Network obtained a draft memo that contained the president's plans to sign an order titled "Eliminating the Department of Education."
Newsweek has contacted the Department of Education out of hours via email for comment.
The potential dismantling of the DoE would not just be an administrative shift—it could have significant consequences for millions of borrowers and the broader education system.
The Reality of Trump’s Executive Order to Abolish the Education Department
On the menu today: The big news of today is likely to be President Trump’s executive order declaring his intent to abolish the U.S. Department of Education. But this may add up to the biggest window-dressing change since NAFTA became the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement. As dramatic as “abolish the Department of Education!” sounds, it really means reassign the duties of the department to other parts of the government like the Departments of the Treasury and Justice.
MIT: Newest students less diverse due to Supreme Court affirmative action decision
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) said Wednesday that its incoming freshman class will be less diverse, pinning the shift on the Supreme Court affirmative action ruling last summer.
Stu Schmill, dean of admissions at MIT, told MIT News that Black, Hispanic, and/or Native American and Pacific Islander students make up only 16 percent of the class of 2028.
The impact of the Supreme Court’s reversal of affirmative action, explained in one chart
New college admissions data for the first group of admitted students since the US Supreme Court sharply limited affirmative action last year suggests that the decision has had a negative impact on Black enrollment at some universities.
While some colleges have seen major fluctuations in the enrollment of students of color in the class of 2028, including notable declines among Black and African American students, the impact has appeared more muted elsewhere. Many universities have yet to release their data, however, so a more clear picture may emerge throughout the fall.
At Some Elite Universities, Affirmative Action Ruling Leaves Little Impact on Racial Makeup, Prompting Scrutiny
'It looks to me like Yale is deliberately sending a message that it doesn't intend to comply with the law,' expert tells Free Beacon In the wake of the Supreme Court's affirmative action ban, several elite universities released breakdowns of their incoming freshman classes that showed virtually no change in racial composition. Experts say that's likely because the schools are sidestepping federal law.
US colleges revise rules as campuses brace for more anti-Israel chaos
Critics say a wave of new rules limiting anti-Israel protests on college campuses impinge upon free speech. But a Cornell Law professor told Fox News Digital that many of these new policies are just explicitly stating already existing policies and protect Jewish and Israeli students' rights to safety on campus.
To Win Swing States, Kamala Harris Must Overcome the Diploma Divide
Vice President Kamala Harris has easily won over the well-educated progressives of the modern Democratic Party. The question is whether she can siphon enough non college-educated voters from Donald Trump in swing states to win election as president.
Politics in the 21st century has been defined by the Democratic Party's growing appeal amongst voters with college degrees while a Republican Party, once seen as representing the elite, has built support among working class voters who did not attend college.
Alabama universities shutter DEI offices, open new programs, to comply with new state law
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The three University of Alabama System campuses on Tuesday shuttered diversity, equity and inclusion offices— and opened new offices — to comply with a new Republican-backed law attempting to ban the programs on public college campuses in the state.
Is college worth it? Poll finds only 36% of Americans have confidence in higher education
Americans are increasingly skeptical about the value and cost of college, with most saying they feel the U.S. higher education system is headed in the “wrong direction,” according to a new poll.
Overall, only 36% of adults say they have a “great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in higher education, according to the report released Monday by Gallup and the Lumina Foundation. That confidence level has declined steadily from 57% in 2015.