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Donald Trump, Linda McMahon, Education Department, theGrio.com
November 18, 2025
The Education Department has already significantly reduced its staff by half, which has critically hurt the Black federal workforce.
Head Start, Department of Education, Government Shutdown
November 3, 2025
The government shutdown is triggering a wave of closures of Head Start centers, leaving working parents scrambling for child care…
Education Department, theGrio.com
October 14, 2025
"He also knows that it's illegal," Everett Kelley of American Federation of Government Employeess said of Trump's firing of federal…
Donald Trump, Linda McMahon, Education Department, theGrio.com
July 16, 2025
"What the Trump administration is doing to the Department of Education is not about policy. It’s about power," said PA…
Donald Trump, Linda McMahon, Education Department, Supreme Court, theGrio.com
July 14, 2025
Justice Sonia Sotomayor complained that her colleagues were enabling legally questionable action on the part of the administration.
June 7, 2025
DOJ's emergency appeal to the high court said a U.S. district judge exceeded his authority last month in his ruling.
Summer Lee, Linda McMahon, Education, theGrio.com
June 4, 2025
U.S. Rep. Summer Lee, D-Pa., gave Secretary McMahon an unexpected pop quiz on Black history during the line of questioning.
Donald Trump, Linda McMahon, Education Department, theGrio.com
April 16, 2025
The NAACP accuses the Trump administration of violating the civil rights of Black American students with its broad anti-DEI policies.
Donald Trump, Linda McMahon, Education Department, theGrio.com
April 3, 2025
The Department of Education memo to states cites that "certain" DEI practices amount to a violation of federal law.
Donald Trump, Education Department, theGrio.com
March 21, 2025
Racial discrimination cases and access to educational services are likely in jeopardy as Trump moves to eliminate the 45-year-old agency.
Linda McMahon, theGrio.com
March 19, 2025
Trump is expected to sign it Thursday, advancing a campaign promise to eliminate an agency that's been a longtime target…
Department of Education, theGrio.com
March 16, 2025
Trump has cut staff in half, including in the Office for Civil Rights, which is charged with investigating complaints of…
Donald Trump, theGrio.com
November 12, 2024
Trump intends to fulfill his promise to eliminate the Education Department, which would have impacts on public education and students.
March 22, 2024
President Biden's Education Dept. is canceling borrowers’ loans because they paid for 10 years while working in public service.
student debt relief, student debt cancellation, theGrio.com
January 19, 2024
Dozens of groups have signed a letter asking the Biden administration to modify a plan proposed for student loan debt…
Florida governor Ron DeSantis -- social studies textbooks
January 6, 2023
Education Secretary Miguel Cardona dismissed Gov. Ron DeSantis' latest action as “an attempt to get a national name for himself.”
January 5, 2023
Nearly 19,000 discrimination complaints have been logged by the Office for Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of Education.
August 27, 2022
Black borrowers on average carry about $40,000 in federal student loan debt, $10,000 more than white borrowers, according to federal…
June 23, 2022
The Biden administration proposed an overhaul of campus sexual assault rules on Thursday and expanded protections for LGBTQ students.
August 21, 2021
The move marks the start of a broader overhaul of a program that has been criticized for having overly burdensome…