Presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy detailed his vision for the administrative state at a New Hampshire town hall on July 20. Mr. Ramaswamy appeared on stage at Saint Anselm College’s New Hampshire Institute of Politics to the strains of Jason Aldean’s “Try That in a Small Town.” The music video for Mr. Aldean’s song was pulled…

Laurence Fox’s campaign group is planning on suing the government over claims the Department of Education is failing to protect children from “child abuse” radical sex education from external providers. The Bad Law Project, which was set up by actor and leader of the politial party Reclaim Mr. Fox, is planning on suing the Department…

The U.S. Senate voted to overturn President Joe Biden’s student debt transfer program on June 1, rebuking his efforts to bypass Congress and cancel the debt of certain student loan recipients. The chamber passed the joint resolution of disapproval in a 52–46 vote with the help of Independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona and Democratic…

The federal Department of Education on May 23 released an “Insights and Recommendations” report on artificial intelligence in education, part of a suite of Biden administration announcements that stress what they see as the need for “equity” in AI. “The department holds that biases in AI algorithms must be addressed when they introduce or sustain unjust…

Half of the nation’s governors are asking the Biden administration to either withdraw or delay a proposed rule aimed at preventing schools from barring biological males from participating in female athletics programs. Led by Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves, 25 Republican governors submitted a joint comment on May 11 to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona opposing his…

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday refused to block a class-action legal settlement that would cancel more than $6 billion in debt owned by former students of universities who claimed they were misled about job prospects. The high court rejected an emergency request from three for-profit Lincoln Educational Services Corp., for-profit American National University Inc., and…

Millions of dollars in pandemic-era relief spending that went to K-12 public education and universities was misspent, according to federal and state audits. As COVID-19 spread around the world in 2020, federal, state, and local officials encouraged or ordered policies that led to the closures of businesses and schools around the United States. Between 2020…

More than 20 legal and advocacy groups, and former education officials have sent a letter (pdf) to the Biden administration’s Department of Education (DOE) requesting that the Department quash its plan to allow males to compete in women’s sports and use women’s locker rooms. The DOE proposed regulations in 2022 to amend Title IX of the…

The Associated Press is reporting what well may be an earthquake in the relations between red states and the federal government—specifically, the Department of Education, whose decrees and even its existence are questioned by many conservatives, including former President Donald Trump: “NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — One of Tennessee’s most influential Republican lawmakers says the state should…

The Department of Education (DOE) is to “immediately and permanently” disband a five-month-old national parents council after conservative groups sued it for allegedly being unbalanced and politically biased. According to a Dec. 5 court notice (pdf), the department said it’s “immediately and permanently disbanding the [National Parents and Families Engagement Council] and that the Council…