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Schumer Will Clear the Way for G.O.P. Spending Bill, Breaking With His Party

Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the minority leader, broke with his party on Thursday and lined up enough Democrats to advance a Republican-written bill to keep federal...

Jack Teixeira, Who Pleaded Guilty in Leaked Documents Case, Asks Trump for Leniency

The Massachusetts Air National Guardsman who pleaded guilty last year to leaking military...

Trump Wants to Speed Up Deportations With Alien Enemies Act: What to Know

President Trump is planning to invoke an obscure wartime authority in the coming...

Ron Nessen, Ford’s White House Press Secretary, Dies at 90

Ron Nessen, who as President Gerald R. Ford’s press secretary from 1974 to...

Large Fire Erupts at Industrial Complex in Pennsylvania, Closing Schools

A large fire broke out at a manufacturing site for aviation products in Pennsylvania on Monday night, engulfing the building in flames and...

Pete Marocco Returns to Battle in Trump’s War on Foreign Aid

Pete Marocco has spent much of this month hunkered in an office suite on the seventh floor of the State Department overseeing the...

Education Dept. Gives Schools Two Weeks to Eliminate Race-Based Programs

The Education Department warned schools in a letter on Friday that they risked losing federal funding if they continued to take race into...

Education Officials Placed on Leave in Trump’s Sprawling Effort to Curb D.E.I.

The Education Department placed a number of employees across its offices on administrative leave on Friday, part of a wave of what staff...

After Fleeing Violence in Guatemala, Their Child Was Killed in a U.S. School

Josselin Corea Escalante was 9 when she and her mother and younger brother left Guatemala to seek asylum in the United States, believing...

With Sweeping Executive Orders, Trump Tests Local Control of Schools

With a series of executive orders, President Trump has demonstrated that he has the appetite for an audacious fight to remake public education...

Columbia Professor Says She Was Pushed to Retire Because of Her Activism

Columbia University and one of its longtime law professors, Katherine Franke, have severed ties after an investigation stemming from her advocacy on behalf...

What if ICE Agents Show Up? Schools Prepare Teachers and Parents.

If immigration agents arrive on the doorstep of a New York City public school, principals have been told what to do. Ask the...

Pro-Palestinian Activists Removed From Michigan’s Student Government

Alifa Chowdhury’s successful campaign to lead the University of Michigan’s student government promised just one thing: to block financing for campus groups until...

Biden Withdraws Proposed Regulations on Student Loans and Trans Athletes

The Biden administration on Friday withdrew some of its main outstanding plans to enact significant federal student loan forgiveness and to set rules...

Black Student Enrollment at Harvard Law Drops by More Than Half

The number of Black students entering Harvard Law School dropped sharply this fall after last year’s Supreme Court decision banning affirmative action in...

To Dial Down Campus Tensions, Colleges Teach the Art of Conversation

On a warm November day, a group of Columbia University professors set up “listening tables” near the center of campus and hailed students...

A Mississippi Teacher Created a School in an Empty Storefront. Students Showed Up.

The desks came out of a dumpster, and the computers are hand-me-downs. But students say Abundance Academy is a haven from bullying and...

U.S. Students Posted Dire Math Declines on an International Test

American students turned in grim results on the latest international test of math skills — adding to a large body of research showing...

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