ChatGPT is making homework a lot easier – for parents
Roughly two years ago, Phil Birchenall’s 11-year-old daughter, Daisy, was having a hard time with math. “ She’s a bright girl,” Birchenall, an AI consultant based in a suburb of Manchester,...
Education
California officials detail Trump funding freeze ‘chaos,’ warn another could cripple state
Maricela Ramirez was at an education conference in Washington, D.C., at the end of January when she and other attendees heard the startling news: Federal funding for Head Start programs,...
A Brief History of Efforts to End the Department of Education
President Donald Trump says he is preparing an executive order to shutter the Department of Education. He talked about abolishing the department throughout his campaign. But this idea is hardly...
Department of Education warns that public schools must remove DEI policies or lose federal funding
The Department of Education is warning state education departments that they must remove diversity, equity and inclusion policies or risk losing federal funding. A letter from the Department of Education...
Thousands of University of California healthcare, research employees vote to authorize strike
Thousands of University of California healthcare, research and technical employees voted to authorize a strike, citing what they described as systemic and ongoing staffing shortages that erode patient care and...
The Trump administration has fired thousands of probationary employees across multiple federal agencies
Multiple US agencies have fired thousands of employees as part of the Trump administration’s efforts to drastically shrink the size of the federal government. Agencies from the Office of Personnel...
How Linda McMahon’s mission to dismantle the Education Department could affect California
Linda McMahon, President Trump’s nominee to head the U.S. Department of Education, stood in solidarity Thursday with his goal of dismantling the department — an overhaul that could effect how...
Educators sound alarm on programs tangled up in Education Department shutdown
Heather Stambaugh, a high school teacher in rural Ohio, said she sees the impact of federal funding every day in her classrooms. It opens up opportunities for individual aides to...
Elon Musk is using the anti-teacher playbook against the entire civil workforce
Amid the the fourth week of Donald Trump’s presidency and Elon Musk’s unprecedented blitz against the federal government, dread abounds for the country’s federal civil service — the 2.3 million...
U.S. Education Department investigating CIF over policy allowing transgender athletes to play girls’ sports
A day after the U.S. Department of Education announced it is opening a Title IX investigation into the California Interscholastic Federation for its policy allowing transgender high school athletes to...
