Splitting Up Special Ed and Civil Rights Will Dilute Services, Experts Say

What It Means That Offices of Civil Rights, Special Education Are Leaving ED

As other agencies absorb the groups, it is uncertain how much their operations will change The post What It Means That Offices of Civil Rights, Special Education Are Leaving ED appeared first on Education Next.

In private call, Education Dept. tried, but failed, to reassure disability advocates

The disability community has long worried about what would happen if special education oversight moved from the Education Department to another agency. Now, those moves are becoming more real.

Badly behaving pupils should not be banished to special needs areas as punishment, says Bridget Phillipson

Badly behaving pupils should not be banished to special needs areas as punishment, says Bridget Phillipson

Private schools’ latest tactic to attract students after VAT on fees

The number of single-sex independent institutions is declining and girls with special educational needs could be worst affected by the changes

Education Dept. Eyes Changing College Merger, Civil Rights Enforcement Regs

Education Dept. Eyes Changing College Merger, Civil Rights Enforcement Regs jessica.blake@ Wed, 07/08/2026 - 03:00 AM Many of the agenda items have to do with culture war issues like defining sex and cracking down on diversity, equity and inclusion. Byline(s) Jessica Blake

Do Vague State Education Standards Open the Door to Classroom Activism?

Do Vague State Education Standards Open the Door to Classroom Activism?

Council of Higher Education: 44% of haredim prepared to study in mixed-gender classrooms

Most haredim still prefer studying in separate classes, but nearly half would be willing to study in mixed-gender classrooms in order to earn their desired academic degree.

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A new white paper from NWEA, and its accompanying op-ed in The Hill, claim that districts are more likely to permanently shutter schools with a high proportion of poor and/or Black students, even after controlling for enrollment patterns. Which made me think: Here we go again. As with previous analyses from other scholars, it plays the greatest hits: document that Black and poor students are overrepresented in some unfortunate circumstance (in this case, school closures), control for one or two Read More

"We Continue to Fight": Chase Strangio on the Supreme Court's Ban on Trans Girls & Women in Sports

The Supreme Court has ruled that states can prohibit transgender student athletes from competing in women’s and girls’ sports teams, with the court’s conservative justices finding that such bans — currently introduced in Idaho and West Virginia — do not violate the Constitution, and all nine justices agreeing that they do not violate Title IX, the federal anti-sex discrimination statute. These bans are part of an “effort that we’re seeing escalate to push trans people out of public life,” says Chase Strangio, co-director of the ACLU’s LGBTQ HIV Project. They have the ultimate effect of “increasing the legitimacy of the Trump administration’s authority over every aspect of our bodily autonomy and everyday life.”

Detailed tables: The schools being abolished, merged, downgraded, and the new ones being established across Greece

The impact of the demographic issue on the map of primary education — School units closing due to lack of students — New Special Education units will operate from September The post Detailed tables: The schools being abolished, merged, downgraded, and the new ones being established across Greece appeared first on ProtoThema English.

High-performing schools in England ‘should be encouraged to admit more white working-class pupils’

Report says once-in-a-generation changes needed to tackle why such children are lowest-performing large demographicHigh-performing primary and secondary schools in England should be encouraged to admit more disadvantaged pupils from white working-class backgrounds to help reverse a continuing crisis in underachievement, an independent inquiry has said.The independent inquiry into white working-class educational outcomes concluded the current education system was “not set up to serve white working-class children and families”. Continue reading...

A more integrated education system would benefit all | Letters

Prof Dave Phoenix says government policy should not focus on who can be excluded from higher educationThe debate about minimum entry requirements for university risks asking the wrong question (Students could be required to pass GCSE English to access university loans, 17 June).At a time of persistent skills shortages and productivity challenges, policy should focus not on who can be excluded from higher education, but on how more people can develop the higher-level skills the country needs through a more integrated education system. Continue reading...

SCOTUS upholds state bans on transgender sports participation, paving way for further restrictions

The court decided 9-0 that the state laws do not violate the Title IX civil rights statute that bars discrimination in education on the basis of sex.

Trump’s actions signal a move toward institutionalizing people with disabilities, advocates warn

WASHINGTON (AP) — For decades, disabled people have fought for their rights to go to school and live alongside peers without disabilities — rights that some fear could be losing ground under the Trump administration. Last month, the Education Department announced it would offload oversight of special education to the Department of Health and Human [] The post Trump’s actions signal a move toward institutionalizing people with disabilities, advocates warn appeared first on Loonie Politics.

Supreme Court upholds state laws banning transgender girls and women from school sports

The court's conservative majority, which has repeatedly ruled against transgender Americans in the past year, ruled that state bans in Idaho and West Virginia don't violate the Constitution or the federal law known as Title IX, which prohibits sex discrimination in education.

Clarence Thomas’ Theory of Race Is Now the Law. It’s Already a Disaster.

The conservative supermajority’s move to constitutionalize “colorblindness” has sweeping implications in many other areas of the law.

U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Bans On Trans Athletes In School Sports

The U.S. Supreme Court, in an opinion released Tuesday, voted 6-3 in support of two state laws that ban trans girls and women from playing women's sports at public schools and universities. The ruling applies directly to bans in two states—Idaho and West Virginia—while bolstering similar bans in more than two dozen others. Writing for the three votes against—all of which came from the court's liberal wing—Justice Sonia Sotomayor said that to the court's majority the facts do not matter, even though the consequences are serious. Sports, of course, are often zero sum, Sotomayor wrote, but the law need not and should not be.

Supreme Court Takes Up Case Challenging Laws That Treat ‘Non-Affirming Parents’ as Child Abusers

Can Washington state remove parental rights to enable runaway kids to access experimental transgender medical “treatments” without their parents’ knowledge or consent? The Supreme Court announced Monday that it would take up a case on this pivotal issue. In the case, a group of parents represented by International Partners for Ethical Care is challenging the...

White teacher gets new life for race discrimination suit vs Evanston D65 – Legal Newsline

In the June 23 ruling, U.S. District Judge John J. Tharp Jr. said the Supreme Court rulings make clear that racial segregation is always problematic under the law, no matter if it is being practiced to help a socially disadvantaged group or correct longstanding gaps and inequities caused by past societal discrimination. So, the judge said, teacher Stacy Deemar has a valid claim against Evanston-Skokie School District 65 for creating a hostile anti-white work environment in schools.

Supporting brighter futures through inclusive education

Supporting brighter futures through inclusive education

'Ecstatic': former college athlete reacts to transgender athlete ruling

The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that states may bar transgender students from playing on girls sports teams, delivering the latest in a series of legal defeats to trans Americans amid a political backlash in conservative states that has accelerated at a dramatic pace in recent years. The court was 6-3 along ideological lines on the issue of whether the Constitution bars the states from banning transgender sports. However, the court’s liberals were in the majority on a separate question of whether the state bans were barred by a federal law. 0:00 A former collegiate athlete reacts to the ruling 3:16 Should all states adopt the ban? 6:05 Have Democrats shifted on the issue? Watch 24/7 live news with CNN Headlines: https://bit.ly/4eIvlTr #Trump #SupremeCourt #News

Opinion: Ending Child Marriage by Breaking the Intergenerational Cycle of Exploitation

Child and women's rights are inseparable: poverty, gender bias and social norms fuel child marriage and dowry, robbing girls of education and agency

[ANALYSIS] For learners with disabilities, inclusion is not just admission

The Inclusive Education Act promised that children with disabilities would no longer have to beg for a place in school. But now we must confront a harder question: once a child is admitted, what happens next?

अनुमतिबिना विदेशी शैक्षिक कार्यक्रम सञ्चालन गर्नेलाई कारबाहीको चेतावनी

काठमाडौं। शिक्षा तथा खेलकुद मन्त्रालयले ए–लेभल, सिबिएसइ, आइबिडिपीलगायत विदेशी शैक्षिक कार्यक्रम मन्त्रालयको अनुमतिबिना सञ्चालन गर्ने शैक्षिक संस्थामाथि कारबाही गर्ने चेतावनी दिएको छ। गत बुधबारको मन्त्रिपरिषद्ले विदेशी सम्बन्धनका नाममा सञ्चालन भइरहेका शैक्षिक कार्यक्रमको गुणस्तर सुधार तथा नियमनलाई थप प्रभावकारी बनाउन विदेशी शैक्षिक कार्यक्रम (सञ्चालन र नियमन) नियमावली, २०८३ स्वीकृत गरेसँगै मन्त्रालयले कानुनी व्यवस्था कार्यान्वयनमा कडाइ गरेको []

The Supreme Court Quietly Embraced Clarence Thomas’ Theory of Race. It’s Already a Disaster.

The conservative supermajority’s move to constitutionalize “colorblindness” has sweeping implications in many other areas of the law.

‘Divided America’: US ‘red state-blue state’ split deepens

Heritage Senior Advisor and Research Fellow Allen Mendenhall says the United States is “divided” as the country’s “red state-blue state” split deepens. “I think it’s a divided America, and I think the red state-blue state divide has become even more bifurcated in the last decade,” Mr Mendenhall told Sky News host Danica De Giorgio. “It’s not something that I see easing up anytime soon, but I also see a lot more pride – it’s different because, in my view, I feel as if the left has begun to despise America’s traditions and despise America’s culture and to treat it as a long train of abuses. “They really dislike America and a lot of them even hate America. “They’re not going to be expected to celebrate America, and that’s disappointing because the very governing institutions and traditions that we have are what allow them to freely express themselves in that public way and they enjoy all these freedoms to hate America and it’s because these freedoms exist, and I believe they take them for granted.”

Instead of tackling affordability, House Republicans bully trans college students

House Republicans advanced two higher education bills Thursday that LGBTQ+ advocates warn would weaken campus nondiscrimination protections and allow student groups to exclude LGBTQ+ people while still receiving recognition, funding, and other benefits from public colleges and universities.

家长与校方支持恢复体罚 强调须设严格规范

随着国会近期掀起恢复学校体罚的讨论部分家长与校方代表公开表示支持但强调必须在严格规范下执行确保学生身心健康不受伤害 根据The Vibes报道两名小学生的父亲诺阿兹里指出当今教育体系在管控学生纪律方面面临“严峻挑战”包括逃学不尊重师长甚至霸凌等问题日益严重

Frat house feud: Stanford blocks historic landmark recognition for Sigma Chi’s civil rights site

The students at the time drew national attention to the issue, which led to major civil rights reforms to end discrimination in all student organizations.

Can Colleges AI-Proof Their Students?

Higher ed claims to foster critical-thinking skills. It has no real system for developing them. By Scott Carlson Higher ed claims to foster critical-thinking skills. It has no real system for developing them.

Supreme Court Lets Red States Force Trans Girls to Play on Boys’ Teams

The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that neither Title IX nor the Equal Protection Clause forbids schools from keeping trans...

Sustaining an American National Identity Requires Civic Education

A shared civic tradition unites Americans in a way nothing else can.

LETTERS | A way to boost the transformation of TVET colleges

Programme transformation and invitation of private sector-based lecturer initiatives should take place simultaneously, writes Mawonga Deliwe.

BLACKETT: The rule of law vs. social justice — why Alberta’s fight against legal wokeness is far from over

Should legal academics, lawyers, judges, and police be able to simply rewrite laws they don’t like, including the Constitution? Of course not. We live in a constitutional democracy. Elected legislators are supposed to make our laws, while the justice system faithfully applies them (it does ‘justice’). But, in a legal system corrupted by wokeness — especially critical legal theory and postcolonialism — legal actors warp the laws when applying them (they do ‘social justice’).

Trans People Behind Bars Face Great Risks. Prison Officials Are Making It Worse.

Even state-level legal protections for trans people have not always extended to those behind bars.

USC ‘Gender and Sexuality Studies Minor’ Includes Internship Opportunity With ‘Social Justice Organizations’

for its students that are centered on queer theory and gender studies The post USC ‘Gender and Sexuality Studies Minor’ Includes Internship Opportunity With ‘Social Justice Organizations’ first appeared on Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion.

Honest Elections Project Applauds Supreme Court Decision in Louisiana v. Callais

Jason Snead, Executive Director of Honest Elections Project, released the following statement: “The Supreme Court got it right: Louisiana’s second majority-minority district is an illegal race-based gerrymander by the plain letter of the law. Race should have no role in redistricting whatsoever, and the Court deserves credit for striking this one down.” The post Honest Elections Project Applauds Supreme Court Decision in Louisiana v. Callais appeared first on Honest Elections Project.

Vanderbilt report on liberal bias in the humanities sparks outrage in higher education

A Vanderbilt University report has ruffled feathers in higher education with its conclusion that social justice politics, rather than knowledge, drives much of today's humanities scholarship. The State of Scholarship report faults contemporary history, philosophy, anthropology, music, sociology and literature studies for prioritizing liberal race and gender identity agendas over the disinterested inquiry that traditionally guides research.

Plans move forward to dismantle Dept. of Education, attacking civil rights, special ed

In a move widely criticized by as well as teachers’ unions, disability rights organizations, feminists and others, the Dept. of Education announced June 16 the plan to relocate several important education programs to other federal agencies without Congressional approval.