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CEEP at Indiana University offers evidence-based insights from world-renowned researchers so that research better informs policy discussions of education issues. Repost does not mean endorsement. education.indiana.edu/research/cent…

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Center for Evaluation & Education Policy (CEEP) @ceepiu.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
More affluent families are taking advantage of #SchoolVouchers while fewer low-income families are enrolling in a program that was initially designed for them.
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Center for Evaluation & Education Policy (CEEP) @ceepiu.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Is a 4 year degree worth it? Maybe. But many policymakers think not. www.msn.com/en-us/money/...
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Center for Evaluation & Education Policy (CEEP) @ceepiu.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Is the Trump Administration using #SchoolChoice to empower states? Or to force their hand? @chrislub.bsky.social www.edweek.org/policy-polit...
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Private School Choice Gets Supercharged in Trump's 2nd Term
At the same time, his administration is pledging to dial back the federal role in education.
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Center for Evaluation & Education Policy (CEEP) @ceepiu.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Report Provides Useful but Incomplete Portrait of Universal #SchoolVouchers. @chrislub.bsky.social nepc.colorado.edu/review/unive...
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NEPC Review: Directional Signals: A New Analysis of the Evolving Private School Choice Landscape (FutureEd, July 2025)
The FutureEd report Directional Signals: A New Analysis of the Evolving Private School Choice Landscape compiles recent data on universal school choice programs, such as vouchers and education savings...
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Center for Evaluation & Education Policy (CEEP) @ceepiu.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
New special issue is on "The Rise of Education Marketization & the Enduring Enigma of School Segregation" with Ee-Seul Yoon, & great commentary from @efrankenberg.bsky.social journals.sfu.ca/ijepl/index....
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Volume 21, Issue 2: The Rise of Education Marketization and the Enduring Enigma of School Segregation | International Journal of Education Policy and Leadership
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Center for Evaluation & Education Policy (CEEP) @ceepiu.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
www.theguardian.com/education/20... Ministers plan to turbocharge their school improvement programme to tackle regional inequalities, aiming to export the success of London’s high-achieving pupils to England’s most struggling schools.
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Ministers aim to export London’s academic success to England’s struggling schools
Exclusive: Bridget Phillipson says Rise scheme will use techniques from Blair government’s London Challenge
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Center for Evaluation & Education Policy (CEEP) @ceepiu.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/u... As the Trump administration has publicly targeted elite universities, it has also quietly pursued funding cuts for the nation’s tribal colleges, which rely on federal dollars to operate.
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Tribal Colleges Rely on Federal Funding. Their Leaders Fear the Trump Years.
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Center for Evaluation & Education Policy (CEEP) @ceepiu.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
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How one state revamped high school to reflect that not everyone goes to college
Indiana’s initial plan for revised graduation requirements was criticized for prioritizing work-based learning over academic preparedness. The state has tried to find a balance between the two.
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Chalkbeat @chalkbeat.org · 15/08/2025
HopSkipDrive says it helps schools solve difficult transportation issues involving long distances and vulnerable kids, while also putting parents at ease. But the rideshare service doesn’t necessarily come cheap.
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As student transportation vexes school districts, a rideshare service offers answers
HopSkipDrive says it helps schools solve difficult transportation issues involving long distances and vulnerable kids, while also putting parents at ease. But the rideshare service doesn’t necessarily come cheap.
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 25/06/2025
“I think history is so important. Even from a former English teacher, if you don't have the history, you have a very hard time understanding the literature,” said Mary Werner, the lone member of the Mississippi State Board of Education to vote against axing the U.S. history assessment.
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Mississippi Students No Longer Need U.S. History Test to Graduate
The Mississippi State Board of Education voted on June 19 to eliminate the U.S. History end-of-course assessment as a requirement for graduation.
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International Education News (IEN) @intlednews.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
#Unesco Integrating education initiatives within Ghana’s national nutrition framework 🥦 🧠 💯 buff.ly/rbTzKLp "Key strategies include community-based behaviour change communication, leveraging school meals for educational and nutritional benefits... "
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Center for Evaluation & Education Policy (CEEP) @ceepiu.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Just released: our 2025 rankings of think tanks (& individuals) in #EdPolicy based on influence & expertise. In many instances, influence is not particularly connected to expertise. For this 2nd annual version, we also considered political leanings. education.indiana.edu/ceep/educati...
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Edu-Thinker Influence and Expertise Rankings 2025: : Policy Reports: Education Policy: Center for Evaluation and Education Policy: School of Education: Indiana University Bloomington
Because think tanks play such a crucial function, it is worth asking about how the technical expertise of these organizations, and the people who work at them, supports or undercuts their influential ...
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Center for Evaluation & Education Policy (CEEP) @ceepiu.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
www.insidehighered.com/news/global/... The news sent shock waves through higher education and could lead to a major reduction in foreign students at American universities, especially public research institutions.
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Trump Targets Chinese Students, a Harsh Blow to Higher Ed
The Trump administration’s latest effort to revive its student deportation campaign could drastically curtail the largest population of international students in the country.
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Center for Evaluation & Education Policy (CEEP) @ceepiu.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/n... The move was an expansion of the Trump administration’s efforts to punish states and public school districts for liberal stances on contentious education issues, and reflects a marked shift in the federal government’s interpretation of civil rights law.
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Trump Administration Says New York Mascot Ban Violates Civil Rights Law
After the state forced a Long Island school district to abandon its “Chief” mascot, federal education officials said the policy discriminated against Native Americans.
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Center for Evaluation & Education Policy (CEEP) @ceepiu.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
hechingerreport.org/so-much-for-... As the class of 2025 enters the workforce, the Trump administration has dismantled career pathways for graduates interested in climate and sustainability work, international aid, public service and research across the natural, behavioral and social sciences.
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So much for saving the planet. Climate careers, and many others, evaporate for class of 2025
The Trump administration is disrupting career paths for new graduates hoping to work in climate change jobs, sustainability, international aid, public service and the sciences.
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 30/05/2025
OPINION: Davis L. Di Mario writes on how the Trump administration's termination of immigration statuses for international students could have economic consequences.
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Opinion | Deporting International Students Risks the Economy
Di Mario writes on how the Trump administration's termination of immigration statuses for international students could have economic consequences.
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 22/05/2025
Midtown Partner’s Farm to Community initiative has served nearly 400 underserved elementary and middle school students and more than 2,000 Jackson residents since its start, distributing hundreds of pounds of vegetables. Now, the program is under threat from Trump’s funding cuts.
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USDA Disrupts Jackson Food Program, Ending Farm-to-School Grant
The Farm to Community initiative has served nearly 400 students and 2,000 Jackson residents. But now, Trump’s USDA has canceled a grant that funds it.
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Chronicle of Higher Education @chronicle.com · 21/05/2025
With a hefty endowment tax likely, Swarthmore College is budgeting for just the first three months of the new fiscal year until more details become clear. chroni.cl/43bEX4A
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Facing Federal Uncertainty, Swarthmore Makes a Novel Plan: the 3-Month Budget
With an expanded endowment tax, research cuts, and a possible chill on international enrollment looming, the college opted to budget for just a quarter “to avoid overcorrecting.”
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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 19/05/2025
New from @josephinelee.bsky.social: A state Senate education bill offers just $55 in additional funding per student, a paltry sum (even compared to the House version). Public school advocates and superintendents say its not nearly enough to cover their deficits.
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Texas School Districts Slam the Senate’s School Finance Plan
“It’s like your house being on fire, and the fire department showing up with a 12 ounce cup of water”
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Center for Evaluation & Education Policy (CEEP) @ceepiu.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Read our latest policy brief from CEEP director @chrislub.bsky.social and @tjamesonbrewer.bsky.social
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Are School Vouchers a Rural Issue?: : Policy Briefs: Education Policy: Center for Evaluation and Education Policy: School of Education: Indiana University Bloomington
Recent claims that rural populations support vouchers are not reflected in voting patterns. Instead, obstacles to choice inherent in rural communities still seem to be an inherent obstacle to these pr...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 15/05/2025
New York University is withholding the diploma of a graduation speaker who delivered an unapproved speech on Wednesday that referred to what he called “the atrocities currently happening in Palestine.” The university says he “violated the commitment he made to comply with our rules.”
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He Denounced the Gaza War at Graduation. N.Y.U. Withheld His Diploma.
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Center for Evaluation & Education Policy (CEEP) @ceepiu.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
www.edweek.org/policy-polit... "Education leaders shouldn’t remain apolitical in the face of serious threats from the Trump administration" - Alex Marrero
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Denver Superintendent: Why We Sued the Federal Government (Opinion)
Education leaders shouldn't remain apolitical in the face of immigration enforcement changes and other threats from the Trump administration.
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Center for Evaluation & Education Policy (CEEP) @ceepiu.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
The Trump administration has tightened funding access for grant recipients, laid off Office of Head Start employees, disbanded Head Start’s regional offices in mostly blue states and territories, and fired staff from the office that oversees basic needs programs like Head Start.
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Head Start’s Future Is Uncertain. Rural Americans Aren’t Ready for What Happens Next. - EdSurge News
“I think that they are going to, in the next four years, do all they can to try to dismantle the Head Start program,” says Joel Ryan, executive ...
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 11/05/2025
America’s grading system has been largely stable for decades, but Joe Feldman has shifted many schools’ practices in just a few years
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As ‘Grading for Equity’ Movement Grows, More Teachers Are Pushing Back
As more schools adopt “grading for equity” policies, some teachers are pushing back.
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Center for Evaluation & Education Policy (CEEP) @ceepiu.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/u... President Trump’s budget proposal would shrink the Education Department, which he has called on Congress to eliminate, by slashing its funding by 15%, or $12 billion. The most significant chunk of that reduction, about $4.5 billion, would come from K-12 schools
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Funds for K-12 Students Are on the Chopping Block in Trump’s Budget
The proposal seeks a cut of $4.5 billion for primary and secondary schools.
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Center for Evaluation & Education Policy (CEEP) @ceepiu.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
hechingerreport.org/in-some-stat... State leaders, taking cues from Elon Musk, are cutting higher education budgets.The efforts coincide with other state-level measures intended to rein in colleges and universities
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In some states, colleges face a double dose of DOGE - The Hechinger Report
Federal DOGE cuts have already hit higher ed. Now some state leaders are cutting higher education budgets, too, emulating the work Elon Musk has done slashing federal staff and spending.
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Center for Evaluation & Education Policy (CEEP) @ceepiu.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
www.latimes.com/california/s... The American Civil Liberties Union, on behalf of six early childhood organizations, has sued the Trump administration to halt the dismantling of Head Start and restore cuts to the program, alleging that the actions required congressional approval.
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ACLU sues to halt Trump administration attacks on Head Start child-care program
The ACLU sued on behalf of early childhood groups to stop the Trump administration from further disrupting Head Start child-care centers without action by Congress.
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Center for Evaluation & Education Policy (CEEP) @ceepiu.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Listen to the latest episode of @haveyouheard.bsky.social with hosts @jenniferberkshire.bsky.social and @jackschneider.bsky.social with special guest @profhicks.bsky.social discussing schools in Indiana, and how Trump is using them as a model for a new right-wing vision of education.
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#197 Taking America Back (to a Less Educated Past)
The vision of the future on offer from Donald Trump looks a lot like the past, when men were men, women stayed home, and just about everyone was less educated. To get a glimpse of what that future mig
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 24/04/2025
Dartmouth College, the only Ivy League university that did not sign a letter condemning the Trump administration for trying to dictate policies and pausing billions of dollars in federal funding, said doing so would not have been an effective way to defend its mission and values.
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Dartmouth abstains from signing letter against federal funding cuts
Of the eight Ivy League universities, the private school in New Hampshire is the only one that has refused.
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Idaho Education News @idahoednews.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
In order to secure a share of federal funding, Idaho administrators will have to state, in writing, that their schools are following federal anti-discrimination law. #idaho #idleg www.idahoednews.org/news/critchf...
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Critchfield spells out ‘ongoing’ plan to comply with federal DEI dictates
In order to secure a share of federal funding, Idaho administrators will have to state, in writing, that their schools are following federal anti-discrimination law.
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Center for Evaluation & Education Policy (CEEP) @ceepiu.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/news/l... "“It might not always be families leaving for private schools, it could be families already in private schools now taking vouchers,” - quote from CEEP director @chrislub.bsky.social
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Monroe County private schools see explosive growth in voucher-based enrollment
From 2021 to 2024, the number of Monroe County students attending private schools through vouchers jumped from 373 to 700.
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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 19/04/2025
From @josephinelee.bsky.social: Opposition to vouchers came from across both sides of the aisle, despite the vote this week to pass them.
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Opposition to Abbott’s Vouchers Plan Includes Conservatives
The governor crushed anti-voucher Republicans in the Texas House, but there are still plenty of party activists who are opposed.
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Center for Evaluation & Education Policy (CEEP) @ceepiu.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
IUB Professor and CEEP faculty affiliate @drjanetrdecker.bsky.social signed onto this amicus brief to the Supreme Court regarding the case over religious charter schools. Read it below: www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...
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Center for Evaluation & Education Policy (CEEP) @ceepiu.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Read our latest policy brief, based on research by Rob Higham, @jakeanders.uk, Gabriel Chouhy, @francisgreen1.bsky.social, Golo Henseke, and @ruthmcginity.bsky.social education.indiana.edu/ceep/educati...
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The impact of English free schools: : Policy Briefs: Education Policy: Center for Evaluation and Education Policy: School of Education: Indiana University Bloomington
Research on free schools in England reveals that—contrary to rhetoric made by their proponents—free schools have adverse impacts on neighboring public schools and are associated with increases in soci...
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Center for Evaluation & Education Policy (CEEP) @ceepiu.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
hechingerreport.org/special-educ... How might dismantling the Education Department alter services for students with disabilities?
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Special education and Trump: What parents and schools need to know
The Trump administration’s changes to the Department of Education have left parents and schools confused about what's to come. Here’s what we know about it all means for special education.
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Center for Evaluation & Education Policy (CEEP) @ceepiu.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
www.edweek.org/policy-polit... Education Secretary McMahon told states that their time to spend COVID relief money had come to an end—canceling extensions the department had previously granted to states to allow schools more time to spend the money on previously planned projects and services.
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Linda McMahon Abruptly Tells States Their Time to Spend COVID Relief Has Passed
Secretary Linda McMahon said the Education Department would no longer honor the extensions it had granted states.
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Center for Evaluation & Education Policy (CEEP) @ceepiu.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
www.edsurge.com/news/2025-03... Legal experts say that the St. Isidore case represents a potentially radical shift for both the charter school movement and for the American understanding of the separation between religious instruction and publicly-funded schools.
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A Supreme Court Case Could Change How We Think About and Pay For Religious Schools - EdSurge News
The Supreme Court in April will weigh whether to open public funds to schools that offer religious instruction. What does that mean for schools, and ...
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Center for Evaluation & Education Policy (CEEP) @ceepiu.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/o... "As a consequence of massive job cuts McMahon has enacted so far, she has hobbled the federal government’s ability to gather statistics on student achievement, effective teaching practices and student literacy."
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Opinion | Standardized Tests Let Us Know if Our Kids Are Learning
Trump wants to give power back to the states. Some states are lowering standards.
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Center for Evaluation & Education Policy (CEEP) @ceepiu.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... "The threat of council bankruptcies should focus minds on the need for a failing system to be reformed"
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The Guardian view on special needs education: inclusion must be about more than saving money | Editorial
Editorial: The threat of council bankruptcies should focus minds on the need for a failing system to be reformed
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Chronicle of Higher Education @chronicle.com · 02/04/2025
The federal government plans to review funding awarded to healthcare providers affiliated with Harvard’s medical school. Nearly 12,000 Harvard faculty members are based across these affiliate providers. chroni.cl/4leYLe3
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How Much Power Does the Trump Administration Hold Over Harvard?
More than 10 percent of the university’s operating revenue last year came from federally supported sponsored research.
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Center for Evaluation & Education Policy (CEEP) @ceepiu.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
www.latimes.com/world-nation... The Trump administration has suspended about $175 million in federal funding for the University of Pennsylvania over a transgender swimmer who last competed for the school in 2022, the White House said Wednesday.
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Trump administration suspends $175 million in federal funding for Penn over transgender swimmer
The University of Pennsylvania has been facing an Education Department investigation focusing on in its swimming program.
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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 29/03/2025
Featured: “It’s more government, more bureaucracy, more money, and there’s no oversight. And it’s taxation without representation,. The taxpayers don’t get to pick who these private companies are that our tax dollars are going into. So that is not a free market.”
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How Voucher Vendors Could Make Millions from ‘School Choice’ in Texas
The Legislature’s current proposals put a handful of private contractors in the driver’s seat. Other states have already seen problems.
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Center for Evaluation & Education Policy (CEEP) @ceepiu.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw... New South Wales is the only Australian state that doesn’t fund endometriosis and pain workshops for public school students despite research revealing one in four girls miss classes due to period pain.
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This program is helping girls stay in school, but NSW students are missing out
NSW is the only state that doesn’t fund endometriosis and pain workshops for public school students despite research revealing one in four girls miss classes due to period pain.
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The Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com · 28/03/2025
Some of the University of Utah researchers had been studying how best to care for critically ill babies in rural communities. Others were focused on reducing the disproportionately high rates of skin cancer in those same remote areas. But the majority of the funding for that work is now cut.
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Trump admin cuts University of Utah funding that institute used to research health disparities, citing DEI
The Trump administration has cut funding for a University of Utah research institute because work there focused on health disparities, including skin cancer in rural communities and brain injuries in combat veterans.
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Center for Evaluation & Education Policy (CEEP) @ceepiu.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Join us tomorrow at the Wendell Wright Education Building!
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NPR @npr.org · 27/03/2025
The federal agency on Monday restored online application forms for income-driven repayment plans. (via @kutnews.bsky.social)
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Austin borrower sues Education Department after monthly student loan payments increase by over 300%
Ashley Morgan filed the federal lawsuit after the agency quietly halted access to income-driven repayment plans. Morgan’s payment of $507 per month is skyrocketing to $2,463.
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Center for Evaluation & Education Policy (CEEP) @ceepiu.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/u... The largest-ever class of high school seniors is about to graduate, just as colleges are facing major upheaval. Here’s what they could face as they head to campus.
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How Crises on Colleges Campuses Might Affect Students
The largest-ever class of high school seniors is about to graduate, just as colleges are facing major upheaval. Here’s what they could face as they head to campus.
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The Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com · 25/03/2025
The introductory classes that all Utah college students must take will get a major rewrite — starting with Utah State — to focus on Western civilization, under a bill Gov. Spencer Cox signed into law.
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Utah college courses will focus on Western civilization and ‘rise of Christianity’ after Gov. Cox signs controversial bill
The introductory classes that all Utah college students must take will get a major rewrite — starting with Utah State — to focus on Western civilization, under a bill Gov. Spencer Cox signed into law.
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Center for Evaluation & Education Policy (CEEP) @ceepiu.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Read our latest policy report authored by Moaaz Hamid, Dr. Michele Moore, and @chrislub.bsky.social education.indiana.edu/ceep/educati...
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Changes in Student Enrollment in Indiana Public School Corporations and Charters, 2006-2024: : Policy Reports: Education Policy: Center for Evaluation and Education Policy: School of Education: Indian...
Understanding enrollment trends in K-12 education, particularly in Indiana, is crucial for effective educational planning and policymaking. Nationally, public school enrollment experienced a significa...
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Center for Evaluation & Education Policy (CEEP) @ceepiu.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/u... Basic information about schools, along with research about how to improve them, seems most likely to be degraded or to disappear entirely. Many of those who were laid off worked on projects evaluating subjects like math and reading instruction and disability supports
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Trump Education Department Cuts Could Decimate School Success Metrics
At least 800 education department research employees and outside partners have lost jobs. The cuts will decimate research and data collection.
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