WASHINGTON, March 25 [Category: Education] -- Student Borrower Protection Center issued the following news release: * * * AFT v. ED Update: Under Pressure, ED Will Restore IDR Application Tomorrow But Will Not Immediately Resume IDR Paperwork Processing SBPC and AFT Still Committed to Ensuring Borrowers Access Right to Affordable Payments and Debt Relief Amid Million-Borrower Paperwork Backlog March 25, 2025 | WASHINGTON, D.C. -- In the first hearing since AFT filed its lawsuit against the  more PR

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, March 27 -- The Pennsylvania Department of Human Services issued the following news on March 25, 2025: * * * After Reducing Adult Emergency Waiting List for Intellectual Disability and Autism Services by Nearly 20 Percent, Shapiro Administration Hosts Roundtable on Continued Budget Investments, Getting Stuff Done for ID/A Community In the first year of its multi-year growth strategy, the Shapiro Administration reduced the adult emergency waiting list for services by  more PR

JUNEAU, Alaska, March 27 -- Gov. Mike Dunleavy, R-Alaska, issued the following statement on March 26, 2025, on President Trump's executive order on decreasing the power and authority of the U.S. Department of Education: * * * Alaska will benefit by decreasing the power of the federal department of education As a former educator for over 30 years, I welcome the news that President Trump has signed an EO significantly decreasing the power and authority of the US Department of Education. Since i more PR

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minnesota, March 26 -- The Center of the American Experiment, a civic and educational organization that says it creates and advocates policies, issued the following commentary on March 13, 2025: * * * Written by Bill Glahn Feeding Our Future: Aimee Bock, Day 3, and the Lamborghini of despair Your correspondent was there for Day 3 of Aimee Bock's testimony at the blockbuster Feeding Our Future trial going on at the federal courthouse in downtown Minneapolis. The founder and CE more PR

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minnesota, March 26 -- The Center of the American Experiment, a civic and educational organization that says it creates and advocates policies, issued the following commentary on March 4, 2025: * * * Written by Bill Glahn Feeding Our Future: bribery bagwoman accused of stealing $1.6 million? That seems to be the implication of reporting by the Minnesota Star Tribune from inside the Federal courtroom during the current free-food fraud trial. The Star Tribune's Jeffrey Meitrodt  more PR

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minnesota, March 26 -- The Center of the American Experiment, a civic and educational organization that says it creates and advocates policies, issued the following commentary on March 14, 2025: * * * Written by Catrin Wigfall Is downsizing the U.S. Dept. of Ed really that alarming? On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Education announced plans to reduce 1,315 staff positions, bringing the agency's total workforce reduction to approximately 50 percent since the start of Presiden more PR

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minnesota, March 26 -- The Center of the American Experiment, a civic and educational organization that says it creates and advocates policies, issued the following commentary on March 2, 2025: * * * Jamal Osman, Omar Fateh on video bragging about their help for Feeding Our Future Written by Bill Glahn The ever-alert Lou Raguse of KARE-11 TV is out with a story on how Minneapolis city council member Jamal Osman (Ward 6) went to bat on behalf of Feeding Our Future during the t more PR

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minnesota, March 26 -- The Center of the American Experiment, a civic and educational organization that says it creates and advocates policies, issued the following commentary on March 11, 2025: * * * Written by Catrin Wigfall Minnesota can no longer hide in its averages A serious look behind our state's average achievement scores shows we aren't doing as well as we like to think we are. Comparing Minnesota's average reading and math performance on the National Assessment of  more PR

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minnesota, March 26 -- The Center of the American Experiment, a civic and educational organization that says it creates and advocates policies, issued the following commentary on March 19, 2025: * * * Written by Catrin Wigfall MN homeschool enrollment reaches highest ever Minnesota homeschool enrollment for the 2024-2025 school year is the highest on record, surpassing even the spike during COVID and school closures. New enrollment data from the Minnesota Department of Educat more PR

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minnesota, March 26 -- The Center of the American Experiment, a civic and educational organization that says it creates and advocates policies, issued the following commentary on March 13, 2025: * * * Written by Tom Steward School board mulls opting out of explicit state student survey On the surface, the Minnesota Student Survey administered through school districts since 1989 by the Minnesota Department of Health sounds innocuous enough. The Minnesota Student Survey shares  more PR

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minnesota, March 26 -- The Center of the American Experiment, a civic and educational organization that says it creates and advocates policies, issued the following commentary on March 16, 2025: * * * Written by Catrin Wigfall What a federal school choice bill would mean for Minnesota A proposed federal scholarship tax credit bill would expand parental choice to all 50 states, providing families a funding option that could be used for a wide variety of educational needs. Thro more PR

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minnesota, March 26 -- The Center of the American Experiment, a civic and educational organization that says it creates and advocates policies, issued the following commentary on March 25, 2025: * * * Written by Katherine Kersten Why all Minnesotans should support H.F. 29 The Minnesota Legislature is currently considering H.F. 29, a bill that does two important things: It repeals Minnesota's K-12 liberated Ethnic Studies mandates enacted in 2023, and It suspends implementati more PR

WASHINGTON, March 27 -- Accuracy in Media issued the following news: * * * Columbia University faces consequences after Accuracy in Media exposes campus antisemitism For months, Accuracy in Media has been on the ground at Columbia University, relentlessly documenting and exposing the rise of antisemitism on campus. From inflammatory protests to faculty affiliations with extremist groups, AIM's investigations have revealed a troubling pattern of hostility toward Jewish students--one that Colum more PR

PHOENIX, Arizona, March 27 -- The Arizona Department of Education issued the following news release on March 26, 2025: * * * Horne, Maricopa Co. Sheriff Sheridan urge more action to battle truancy, absenteeism MCSO pledges help as resource for parents and school districts PHOENIX - in response to the 30 percent statewide chronic absenteeism rate in Arizona, state schools chief Tom Horne and Maricopa County Sheriff Jerry Sheridan are urging law enforcement, the courts, parents and schools to  more PR

WASHINGTON, March 26 -- Rep. Lucy McBath, D-Georgia, issued the following news release: * * * McBath, Mannion, Hayes Introduce Bill to Ensure Special Education Programs Are Administered As Intended By Congress Washington, DC --Representative Lucy McBath (GA-6) joined Representatives John W. Mannion (NY-22) and Jahana Hayes (CT-5) to introduce the Protecting Students with Disabilities Act to ensure that special education programs within the U.S. Department of Education are administered as Cong more PR

HELENA, Montana, March 27 -- The Montana Democratic Party issued the following news release: * * * Justin Ailport: Protests are about to get even bigger MDP Interim Executive Director Justin Ailport: "Senator Daines, Senator Sheehy, Congressman Zinke, and Congressman Downing are cheering on the Trump administration like a bunch of brainless frat bros watching a keg stand." Helena, MT-- In a new column, Montana Democratic Party Interim Executive Director Justin Ailport slams President Trump a more PR

WASHINGTON, March 27 -- The National Organization for Women issued the following statement in March 26, 2025, by President Christian F. Nunes: * * * Dismantling The Department of Education Takes a Wrecking Ball to Our Families' Future WASHINGTON -- We need the government to provide what every student in this country deserves--not unfair treatment but an equal chance to access quality education. No child left behind? Those words ring hollow today. Too many girls don't complete school, and to more PR

WASHINGTON, March 27 -- Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, D-Oregon, issued the following statement, which was published in the Congressional Record on March 25, 2025: * * * Mr. Speaker, I rise today to condemn in the strongest terms possible President Trump's executive order that threatens millions of students and local public schools through the dismantling of the Department of Education. This is an illegal and unconstitutional abuse of power straight out of the Project 2025 playbook. Congress created  more PR

WASHINGTON, March 26 -- Rep. Doug LaMalfa, R-California, issued the following statement, which was published in the Congressional Record on March 25, 2025: * * * Mr. Speaker, for decades, Washington has poured trillions of dollars into the education system of America with actually very little to show for it. Since the Department of Education was created by Jimmy Carter in 1979, it has spent over $3 trillion, yet student achievement hasn't actually improved. It has only gone down in that time. more PR

WASHINGTON, March 26 -- Rep. Jimmy Panetta, D-California, issued the following news release: * * * Rep. Panetta Hosts Roundtable with UC Santa Cruz on Impact of NIH Funding Freezes on Research Santa Cruz, CA - United States Representative Jimmy Panetta (CA-19) convened a roundtable discussion with leaders, professors, and researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) to hear firsthand how the ongoing federal funding freeze is undermining scientific progress, educational oppor more PR

WASHINGTON, March 27 -- Rep. John Mannion, D-New York, issued the following news release: * * * Representative John W. Mannion (NY-22) Introduces the 'Protecting Students with Disabilities Act' to Ensure Special Education Programs at the Department of Education are Administered as Congress Intended Mannion's first bill in Congress pushes back on Trump administration's illegal attempt to dismantle the Department of Education Legislation Backed by Leading Education and Disability Advocacy Orga more PR

WASHINGTON, March 27 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, issued the following floor remarks on March 25, 2025: * * * Mr. President, let me take you back to January of 1985. Ronald Reagan had just begun his second term as President, and one of his policy priorities was to include the abolition of the Department of Education. What did it finally take to get him to back down from that commitment? Congress. Congress stood firm to protect this vital Agency in 1985. In a letter to Senator Orrin more PR

WASHINGTON, March 27 -- Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, issued the following floor remarks on March 25, 2025: * * * Mr. President, in the last couple of weeks, I have had the opportunity to travel in many parts of our country, and I have been able to talk to folks in Nebraska, in Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan, Nevada, Colorado, and Arizona. What I am hearing from in all of these States and, in fact, all over the country is that our Nation right now faces enormous crises-unprecedented crises in th more PR

WASHINGTON, March 27 -- The Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee issued the following information for a legislative hearing at 10 a.m. on April 1, 2025, at 328A Russell Senate Office Building: Agenda: To Review S. 222, the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act, and Improving Children's Health Witnesses * Dr. Eve Stoody, Director, Nutrition Guidance and Analysis Division, Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion, USDA, Alexandria, VA * Dr. Keith Ayoob, Associate Professor Emeritus more PR

WASHINGTON, March 26 -- Personnel changes in public policy organizations and government - March 26, 2025: * * * The National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA) announced Melanie Storey as its new President & CEO, effective May 1, 2025. With decades of experience in federal higher education policy and implementation, Storey brings a depth of knowledge of financial aid operations, innovative leadership, and operational management to the position. After a monthslong se more ST

WASHINGTON, March 27 -- The U.S. Department of Education issued the following news release on March 26, 2025: * * * U.S. Department of Education Opens Revised Income-Driven Repayment Plan and Loan Consolidation Applications for Borrowers Today, the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Federal Student Aid (FSA) reopened the online income-driven repayment (IDR) plan and loan consolidation applications for borrowers. The application was temporarily paused to comply with the 8th Circuit Court more PR

ORONO, Maine, March 27 -- The University of Maine issued the following news release: * * * UMaine researchers launch new study to continue reducing wasted food in school cafeterias Four school districts across Maine were able to reduce their food waste by 20% by participating in a 2023 study conducted by University of Maine researchers. To build on the learning and momentum around reducing wasted food in Maine school cafeterias, UMaine has launched a second Maine School Cafeteria Wasted Food  more PR

CLARKSVILLE, Arkansas, March 26 -- The University of the Ozarks issued the following news: * * * Spring Commencement set for May 17 By Larry Isch University of the Ozarks is expected to confer degrees on approximately 140 graduates during its 2025 Spring Commencement ceremony, scheduled for Saturday, May 17. The graduation ceremony will begin at 9 a.m. on the campus mall in front of Robson Library. In the event of inclement weather, the ceremony will be moved to Mabee Gymnasium. The ceremon more PR

WASHINGTON, March 26 -- The House Veterans' Affairs Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity released the following testimony by John Bell, executive director of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Loan Guaranty Service, from a March 11, 2025, hearing on veteran care and benefits related legislation: * * * Chairman Van Orden, Ranking Member Pappas, and other members of the Subcommittee, thank you for inviting us here today to present our views on several bills that would affect VA programs and more PR