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News Articles: Education

The largest pot of grant money frozen by the Trump administration consisted of roughly $2.2 billion for professional development for educators.

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  • Education

Education Department says it's releasing more than $5 billion in frozen grants

The grants fund a wide range of education programs, including migrant education, services for English language learners and adult education.

July 25, 2025
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By:
  • Sequoia Carrillo
President Trump stands with Ohio State Head Coach Ryan Day (R) as he welcomed the 2025 College Football National Champions from Ohio State University to the White House during a ceremony on April 14, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump's new executive order seeks to ban "pay-for-play" deals and requires schools to provide scholarships in women's and Olympic sports — and it dangles the threat of withholding federal funds to schools as an enforcement mechanism.

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  • Sports

President Trump takes aim at college sports with a new executive order

The order aims to ban "pay-for-play" NIL deals, mandates scholarships for women's and Olympic sports and threatens to withhold funds from schools who don't comply. But its legality is in question.

July 25, 2025
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By:
  • Becky Sullivan
Pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel protesters face off outside of Columbia University on April 22, 2024.

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  • Education

What we know about Columbia's $221 million settlement with the Trump administration

The complex settlement allowed both sides to claim victory. It gives the university access to federal funds that had been frozen, and restores some terminated contracts.

July 25, 2025
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By:
  • Elissa Nadworny and
  • Jordan Owens
President Trump has signed off on an overhaul of the federal student loan system that will affect the lives of many of the United States' nearly 43 million borrowers.

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  • Education

What borrowers should know about student loan changes in the One Big Beautiful Bill

Now that President Trump has signed Republicans' massive overhaul of the federal student loan program, we explain what's set to change.

July 24, 2025
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By:
  • Cory Turner
Michael Vargas in his room on Wednesday, April 3, 2024 in Miami.

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  • Education

How NPR's college podcast champion overcame his fears and inspired listeners around the world

Our winning podcaster has graduated and tells us that opening up about his mental health condition brought thousands of responses and gave him a sense of purpose.

July 23, 2025
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By:
  • Janet W. Lee and
  • Steve Drummond
An empty classroom at CIS 303: Leadership and Community Service Academy in the Bronx borough of New York City, U.S., October 8, 2024. REUTERS/Adam Gray

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  • Education

Georgia House study committee looks at student absenteeism in schools

The House Study Committee on Student Attendance in PreK-12 Education met on Tuesday to discuss the causes of chronic absenteeism in schools as absence rates have increased since before the pandemic in Georgia.

July 23, 2025
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By:
  • Ambria Burton
Students walk through Harvard Yard.

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  • Education

Lawyers for Harvard and Trump square off in court in Boston

With more than $2 billion in federal research grants at stake, the two sides argued before a federal judge about the legality of the White House's cancellation of those funds to Harvard.

July 21, 2025
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By:
  • Emily Piper-Vallillo and
  • Elissa Nadworny

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  • Education

What the 'One Big Beautiful Bill' will change for students, schools and colleges

School vouchers are going national and the federal student loan system is getting an overhaul. Here's what to know.

July 18, 2025
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By:
  • Sequoia Carrillo,
  • Cory Turner,
  • and 1 more
teacher

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  • News

Georgia will not join multi-state education lawsuit against the Trump administration

Georgia will not join the 24 states and Washington, D.C., that are suing the Trump administration to release $6 billion in promised federal education grants, Attorney General Chris Carr said. 

July 17, 2025
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By:
  • Sarah Kallis

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  • Education

In praise of the humble recorder — a gateway instrument for millions of schoolchildren

The small plastic instrument has long been the go-to instrument in elementary schools. But it is capable of so much more than "Hot Cross Buns."

July 16, 2025
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By:
  • Abigail Covington
Bibb County Schools Superintendent Dan Sims speaking during the school system's convocation ceremony in July of 2023.

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  • Education

Close to $7B in federal funds for education remains frozen. Here's what Macon-Bibb's share is for

GPB's Grant Blankenship recently talked to Bibb County School Superintendent Dan Sims to find out what the frozen money was meant to pay for.

July 15, 2025
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
The Washington, D.C., headquarters of the U.S. Department of Education shown in March.

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  • Education

Supreme Court says Trump's efforts to close the Education Department can continue

The Trump administration had appealed a decision that had directed it to stop gutting the U.S. Education Department and to reinstate many of the workers the government had laid off.

July 14, 2025
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By:
  • Cory Turner
RaShaun Kemp

Tagged as: 

  • Education

State legislators call for the release of held-up education funds

Democrats in the State Senate are calling on the Trump administration to release federal funds designated for after-school programs. 

July 14, 2025
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By:
  • Sarah Kallis
A teacher gives a tour of Nora Sterry Elementary School to students in Los Angeles in January. California is one of 24 states suing the Trump administration over frozen education grant funding.

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  • Education

24 states sue Trump admin to unfreeze more than $6 billion in education grants

The lawsuit comes two weeks after the Trump administration first notified states it was withholding previously approved funds for migrant education, before- and after- school programs and more.

July 14, 2025
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By:
  • Sequoia Carrillo
When the school board in Florida's Broward County defied Gov. Ron DeSantis' ban on school mask mandates during the pandemic, some parents sent vitriolic emails and made veiled threats.

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  • National

Since COVID, threats to local school officials have nearly tripled, research finds

Researchers at Princeton University say some instances corresponded with national attacks on DEI initiatives as well as on LGBTQ+ policies and that the targets held a variety of political views.

July 12, 2025
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By:
  • Frank Langfitt
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