President and Administration
After weeks of mounting pressure from members of his own party, President Joe Biden has ended his reelection bid, throwing the 2024 cycle into unprecedented territory…
President Biden is “finalizing plans to endorse major changes to the Supreme Court in the coming weeks, including proposals for legislation to establish term limits for the justices and an enforceable ethics code…
On Tuesday (7/16), President Biden announced new actions to lower housing costs, including…
An ambitious Republican agenda to transform the federal bureaucracy under a second Trump presidency would have considerable fallout in the world of education…
Congress
Senate appropriators are plowing forward with fiscal 2025 markups, hoping to advance a dozen spending bills out of committee largely along bipartisan lines as they did last summer…
California
California’s public-private hydrogen hub, known as ARCHES, just became the first hub in the country to be awarded its initial tranche of funding from the U.S. Department of Energy…
Now that the Supreme Court has granted cities more power to ban sleeping outside, homeless Californians face a crucial decision…
Education
On Monday (7/15), Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill to protect transgender and gay students from being outed to their parents…
The botched rollout of a revamped process to apply for federal financial aid could have long-lasting effects…
When they voted earlier this year to let police officers use a dangerous form of restraint on students in schools, Minnesota Democratic lawmakers said they did so because they had brokered a compromise…
Oklahoma’s Supreme Court is still entangled in a skirmish between church and state this month, weeks after a majority of its justices ordered officials to scrap a pending state contract with a public religious charter school…
A federal judge on Friday (7/19) suggested the Education Department should postpone implementing its rule that bolsters discrimination protections for transgender students…