Education Department

June 7, 2025

Trump administration asks Supreme Court to leave mass layoffs at Education Department in place

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Summer Lee, Linda McMahon, Education, theGrio.com
June 4, 2025

Education Secretary Linda McMahon doesn’t appear to know what Tulsa Race Massacre is during House hearing

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Donald Trump, Linda McMahon, Education Department, theGrio.com
April 16, 2025

NAACP lawsuit says Department of Education is ‘intentionally discriminating’ against Black Americans with anti-DEI orders

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Donald Trump, Linda McMahon, Education Department, theGrio.com
April 3, 2025

Education Department threatens funding for public schools over DEI–but doesn’t clarify what counts as DEI

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Donald Trump, Education Department, theGrio.com
March 21, 2025

Trump’s move to dismantle DOE sparks fears of racial segregation, ‘Attack on Black children’

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Linda McMahon, theGrio.com
March 19, 2025

Trump to order a plan to shut down the US Education Department

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Department of Education, theGrio.com
March 16, 2025

Education Department staff cuts could limit options for families of kids with disabilities

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Donald Trump, theGrio.com
November 12, 2024

Trump doubles down on eliminating Education Department, vows to give ‘restitution’ to ‘victims’ of DEI

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March 22, 2024

Student loans to be canceled for 78,000 more public workers

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student debt relief, student debt cancellation, theGrio.com
January 19, 2024

70 organizations, NAACP included, ask Biden’s Education Dept. to retool student debt plan to help people of color

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Florida governor Ron DeSantis -- social studies textbooks
January 6, 2023

DeSantis’ targeting of race and diversity at Florida universities seen as political ploy

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January 5, 2023

Education department received 19K discrimination complaints, including claim of mocking George Floyd’s death

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August 27, 2022

Student loan relief highlights burden on Black borrowers

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June 23, 2022

Biden administration moves to expand Title IX protections for LGBTQ+ students

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August 21, 2021

US to erase student debt for those with severe disabilities

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Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos
January 8, 2021

As DeVos exits DOE, leaders focus on damage control amid pandemic

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Betsy DeVos thegrio.com
January 7, 2021

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos quits, cites Trump rhetoric

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December 23, 2020

Biden poised to pick Miguel Cardona as nation’s next Latino education secretary

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August 22, 2020

Education department extends suspension of student loan payments through 2020

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August 23, 2018

Betsy DeVos thinking of using federal money to arm teachers

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