What was the @Chalkbeat story they were talking about on @AbbottElemABC? While there's no exact match, this story from @aleksappleton is *pretty* close:

Linda McMahon said at her confirmation hearing that an Education Department overhaul won’t hurt school funding. One Democratic senator wondered if the committee was being subject to an “elegant gaslighting.”

“Criminal gang members who are in the United States illegally have in some cases enrolled in public schools,” Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita said in a letter to the district.

President Trump’s pick to head the Education Department holds dozens of municipal bonds funding public school construction and other projects across the U.S. It’s likely she earns at least $900,000 a year in interest payments from the investments.

My older brother walked me back from the brink.

Federal prosecutors allege Indiana Virtual School leaders’ campaign donations to GOP politicians were meant to “curry favor” and help pass favorable legislation. The officials of the now-closed schools have faced legal trouble for years.

Trump can’t end the Education Department by himself. Yet moves by DOGE to cut its funding and his assault on the federal bureaucracy could preview attempts to reduce its reach.

A bill that advanced to the Senate floor could shutter at least 20 IPS schools and eliminate hundreds of jobs, Superintendent Aleesia Johnson told lawmakers on Tuesday.

The Trump administration canceled dozens of contracts held by the research arm of the U.S. Department of Education. The president is looking to significantly scale back the size and work of the Education Department.

Hit by pandemic ‘aftershocks,’ kids fall further behind in reading, still trail pre-COVID peers

A growing number of specialized charter schools serve students with disabilities. Trump's education shakeup could change special education, school choice, and more.

A bill to change math instruction in the same vein as the science of reading is moving forward in the Indiana Statehouse. But the template for making those changes for math teachers isn’t as clear-cut as it was for literacy.

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We want to better understand what teachers and parents think about Trump’s approach and whether any changes are happening at the school-level in response to executive orders.

In Plyler v. Doe, the Supreme Court ruled children have a right to attend public schools for free regardless of their immigration status. But GOP legislators in at least five states have introduced bills that could topple that 1982 precedent.

Join us for “Letters to Lawmakers,” a teacher story slam from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 25, at Guggman Haus Brewing Co., 1701 Gent Ave. in Indianapolis.

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Over 50 Head Start programs around the country still can’t draw down federal funds, more than a week after the Trump administration officially rescinded the freeze on federal grants.

School leaders struggling with their mental health should know that they are not alone.