Education

Teachers trying to block the Trump administration’s guidance forbidding DEI efforts in schools are trying to “manufacture harm,” a government attorney told a federal judge in N.H. on Thursday.

Boston Public Schools says data from the school bus-tracking app Zum will help it streamline service, saving students time and the district money.

After what Boston Mayor Michelle Wu was a rocky start to the school year, BPS is looking to save both time and money by rolling out a new school bus plan for its 22,000 students, but one local group is pushing back on its legality.

Sleep training is no longer just for newborns. Some schools are taking it upon themselves to teach teenagers how to get a good night’s sleep.

The federal government is freezing more than $2 billion in research funds for Harvard University, after issuing a list of demands to the Ivy League school, of which it is not complying with....

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The Ivy League school is refusing a number of demands made by the federal government.

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The federal government is freezing more than $2 billion in research funds for Harvard University, after issuing a list of demands to the Ivy League school, of which it is not complying with.

Harvard University has rejected demands brought by the Trump administration earlier this month to guarantee its nearly $9 billion in federal funding will continue, saying it won’t “surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights.”

After Harvard’s president announced it wouldn’t accept Trump administration demands, the Education Dept.’s Joint Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism’s froze billions in funding.

Wellesley College is the latest Boston-area university to put a hiring freeze in place when federal funding is uncertain.

Massachusetts and other U.S. states are challenging the Trump administration’s plans to recover $2 billion in pandemic-era education funds intended to improve school facilities and address students’ overall health.

The state of Maine is suing the U.S. Department of Agriculture and its leader over funding for feeding children and disabled adults frozen amid a spat between the state and federal governments over transgender girls competing in girls’ high school sports.

“He wasn’t worried about what’s going to happen to him and his reputation,” one student said. “He was worried about his students.”

The Supreme Court granted the Trump administration’s plea to cut hundreds of millions of dollars in teacher-training money as part of its anti-DEI efforts.

Harvard president Alan Garber said in response the school had “devoted considerable effort to addressing antisemitism” and would provide a full accounting to the government.

The Trump administration is planning to halt more than half a billion dollars in contracts and grants to Brown University over antisemitism investigation.

As a condition for receiving federal money, the Trump administration is ordering K-12 schools to certify that they are following federal civil rights laws and ending any discriminatory diversity, equity and inclusion practices. A notice sent Thursday by the Education Department gives states and schools 10 days to sign and return the certification. It’s the latest escalation against DEI policies,…

Leaders at the local, state and federal level have been sounding off since the Trump administration announced plans to recover $2 billion in pandemic-era education funds

Massachusetts leaders were sounding off on the Trump administration’s plans to recover $2 billion in pandemic-era education funding, including more than $100 million from Massachusetts, with Rep. Katherine Clark, D-Mass., calling it “casual cruelty.”...

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Gov. Maura Healey’s office says the U.S. Department of Education terminated over $2 billion in grants across 41 states despite reaffirming to in February that Massachusetts had until next year to spend the funds