#Education Policy

Articles (30)

• 🇺🇸 Title IX agreements on shaky ground after Education Department rescinds gender-identity deals — 11/04/2026 [USA]

  The Education Department took an unprecedented step this week to nullify Title IX agreements previous administrations had made with school districts over gender identity, laying the groundwork for an ...

  Related: #Civil Rights, #Political Polarization
• 🇺🇸 Faith lessons don't belong in public schools, and Christians know that — 10/04/2026 [USA]

  The collection of warm and fuzzy scriptures being considered for Texas curricula is likely just a Trojan horse for more extreme theology.

  Related: #Religious Freedom, #Church-State Separation
• 🇺🇸 Lessons from COVID school aid: We need clearer goals and better accountability — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  Now the evidence is clearer, and the conclusion is more nuanced than either side of the school-funding debate likely prefers.

  Related: #Government Spending, #Post-Pandemic Analysis
• 🇺🇸 Educators should seriously consider a pause on AI in classrooms — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  A wise first step would be a voluntary moratorium on new AI implementation contracts until independent researchers have assessed their impact.

  Related: #Technology Ethics, #Academic Research
• 🇺🇸 Trump Administration Investigating L.A. Schools’ Gender Disclosure Policies — 08/04/2026 [USA]

  The investigation into the nation’s second-largest school district was prompted by a lawsuit from parents who say the policies contributed to their child’s death.

  Related: #Civil Rights, #LGBTQ+ Rights
• 🇺🇸 Judge halts Trump effort requiring colleges to show they don't consider race in admissions — 04/04/2026 [USA]

  A federal judge on Saturday said the Trump Administration the demand to collect data from universities was rolled out in a "rushed and chaotic" manner.

  Related: #Legal Challenge
• 🇺🇸 Chuck Schumer: What the SAVE Act Would Really Do — 23/03/2026 [USA]

  Republicans want to pretend it’s a voter ID bill.

  Related: #Financial Reform
• 🇺🇸 Trump is dismantling democracy, reports find. And, Treasury to take over student loans — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  Recent studies show the U.S. is slipping further from democracy. And, the Trump administration plans to transfer federal student loans from the Education Department to the Treasury Department.

  Related: #Democracy
• 🇺🇸 Trump's push to abolish the Education Department reaches student loan portfolio — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  One year after President Trump signed an executive order calling for the shuttering of the Education Department, the agency has taken its biggest step yet toward self-elimination. On Thursday, the dep...

  Related: #Government Reform
• 🇬🇧 Bereaved father wants suicide prevention training in every school — 18/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  John Gibson's 24-year-old son Cameron, who was a veterinary surgeon, died in October 2019.

  Related: #Mental Health
• 🇬🇧 Florida professors quietly defy restrictions on race and gender: ‘This is how authoritarianism works’ — 18/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Sociology faculty are refusing to alter syllabi, even as state targets how race, gender and inequality are taught</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/feb/17/sign-up-for-the...

  Related: #Academic Freedom
• 🇺🇸 Judge orders Texas voucher program deadline extended amid controversy over exclusion of Islamic schools — 17/03/2026 [USA]

  U.S. District Judge Alfred Bennett ruled Tuesday that Texas must extend its deadline for private schools to apply for the state’s voucher program after a lawsuit alleged Islamic schools have been excl...

  Related: #Religious Discrimination
• 🇺🇸 Judge temporarily halts Trump demand for race-based admissions data from universities — 16/03/2026 [USA]

  A judge ruled on Friday to temporarily stall efforts by the Trump administrations demanding race-based admissions data from universities.   U.S. District Judge F. Dennis Saylor ruled in favor of the 1...

  Related: #Legal Challenge, #Affirmative Action
• 🇺🇸 In Deep-Red Idaho, a Republican Rift Over Schools and ‘Parental Choice’ — 16/03/2026 [USA]

  Does “choice” in Idaho mean vouchers for private-school tuition or publicly funded remote learning that has brought AP classes and advanced math to the state’s rural reaches?

  Related: #Political Division
• 🇺🇸 Reeves must tackle ‘badly broken’ student loans, Cambridge chancellor says — 16/03/2026 [USA]

  Chris Smith criticises ‘absurd position’ graduates find themselves in and calls for more vocational education

  Related: #Government Reform
• 🇬🇧 Row over tuition fees cut for European students threatens Starmer’s EU reset — 15/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>British negotiators ‘blindsided’ by Brussels’ demand for a reduction that could cost universities £140m a year</p><p>Britain is in a standoff with Brussels over a demand to cut university tuition f...

  Related: #International Relations
• 🇺🇸 Texas, Florida face pushback over efforts to exclude Islamic schools from school voucher programs — 15/03/2026 [USA]

  Texas and Florida are facing criticism and potential legal challenges over moves to exclude Islamic schools from their school voucher programs. Both states have tried to designate the Council on Ame...

  Related: #Religious Freedom
• 🇺🇸 Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump Demand for Student Race Data — 13/03/2026 [USA]

  A group of Democratic attorneys general had sued to overturn the Trump administration’s new policy that demanded the past seven years of student application data.

  Related: #Legal Challenge
• 🇺🇸 US judge blocks Trump from forcing colleges to disclose data on race — 13/03/2026 [USA] Related: #Legal Challenge
• 🇺🇸 Trump administration has scaled back oversight of student loan servicers, congressional watchdog finds — 12/03/2026 [USA]

  The Department of Education has scaled back its oversight of student loan servicers, a new report from the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office finds.

  Related: #Government Oversight
• 🇬🇧 MPs launch student loans inquiry amid ‘perfect storm’ for young people in UK — 12/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Influential Treasury committee chair Meg Hillier says review follows growing concern over graduate debt</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/mar/11/uk-companies-strugglin...

  Related: #Economic Challenges
• 🇬🇧 Inquiry into student loans launched by MPs — 12/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  The Treasury Committee will look at whether "the goalposts [have] been moved in a way which is unfair".

  Related: #Government Inquiry
• 🇬🇧 MPs launch investigation into student loans system — 11/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  A committee of MPs is launching an inquiry into the student loan system and whether it's fair for graduates

  Related: #Government Inquiry
• 🇺🇸 Blue states sue Trump administration over new race-based reporting requirements for colleges — 11/03/2026 [USA]

  Seventeen Democratic-led states sued the Trump administration on Wednesday over new race-based reporting requirements for universities targeting admissions, financial aid and student performance data....

  Related: #Legal Challenge
• 🇺🇸 People on controversial UK student loan plan each owe over £40,000 on average — 11/03/2026 [USA]

  People on ‘plan 2’ owe four times as much as those on previous system

  Related: #Student Debt
• 🇬🇧 University tuition fees system is a 'mess', says Sir Nick Clegg — 11/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  The ex-deputy PM told the BBC he would "take on the chin" any criticism surrounding his involvement

  Related: #Tuition Fees
• 🇬🇧 SEND reforms to 'strip away' children's legal protections, charity says — 09/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  Planned changes to the special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) system in England were announced last month.

  Related: #Disability Rights
• 🇺🇸 Virginia passes legislation banning schools from teaching falsehoods about Jan. 6 — 06/03/2026 [USA]

  The bill passed by the Virginia legislature prohibits schools from teaching what it considers to be falsehoods about the U.S. Capitol riot, including portraying it "as peaceful protest."

  Related: #Historical Accuracy
• 🇺🇸 Transgender students should be given a voice when policies affect them — 06/03/2026 [USA]

  'Although [a recent article] gives voices to parents on this topic, educators, transgender students and mental health professionals are left unheard," writes an L.A. Times reader.

  Related: #Student Rights
• 🇬🇧 Vice-chancellor calls for review into student loans for those without A-levels — 06/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Adam Tickell, of University of Birmingham, says money is loaned to people who ‘are not really capable of graduating’</p><p>A leading vice-chancellor has questioned whether students without A-levels...

  Related: #Student Finance