education
Every record this desk has filed under education, newest first, each with the number of sources it can still show you.
DOJ and Education will not rely on seven civil rights guidance documents in enforcement
The Justice and Education departments say seven joint civil rights guidance documents are not enforceable and will not be used in their enforcement. The October 23 notice covers texts on English learners and their parents, school harassment, student discipline and college admissions. The agencies plan to review them. The notice leaves the underlying statutes, regulations and binding court precedents as the sources of enforceable duties.
Also filed undercivil-rightsjustice-departmentguidanceenglish-learnersenforcement
IRS filed temporary regulations and a proposed rule for a new $1,700 scholarship tax credit, both set to publish October 2
The Internal Revenue Service filed two documents today, both titled 'Federal Scholarship Tax Credit' and both scheduled to publish in the Federal Register October 2. One is temporary regulations covering registration, state elections and reporting; the other is a proposed rule, open for comment, covering who may claim the credit. The statute caps the credit at $1,700 a year per taxpayer for cash gifts to certified scholarship charities, and applies to taxable years ending after December 31, 2026. Neither set of rules changes a 2026 return.
Also filed undertaxesscholarshipstax-creditirsfederal-register
The Justice Department says it has ended more than fifty school desegregation cases but named only Waterbury and Flagler County, and court records show judges dismissed both months earlier; filings in Alabama name six more districts where the same step was taken or requested since May.
On September 24 the Justice Department (DOJ) announced 'the dismissal of more than fifty desegregation cases' dating from the 1960s and 70s, which it says it seeks to end once it concludes a school district has achieved unitary status. The release names only two places, Waterbury, Connecticut, and Flagler County, Florida, and has no list, so families cannot tell from it whether their district's case has ended. Federal court records show both named cases were dismissed months earlier: a judge declared Flagler County unitary on March 4, 2026, and another declared Waterbury's school board unitary on May 22, 2026. In Alabama, filings in a 1963 statewide suit show it being closed one district at a time: St. Clair County's case is listed as closed, Tuscumbia City's was dismissed on July 7, and joint motions for Franklin County, Fayette County, Marion County and Athens City were docketed between August 31 and September 18. In Marion County the government says the district's lawyer was not responsive, and the State of Alabama joined the motion instead. The release does not say how many of the fifty-plus a judge has ruled on.
Also filed undercivil-rightsschool-desegregationjustice-departmentfederal-courtsalabama
One in five school districts cancelled school last year because of the building, not the weather. Two million students lost an estimated 3.5 million days.
GAO's nationwide survey of public school districts, released September 14, estimates that 19 percent of districts cancelled school during 2024-25 because of a facilities problem — most often a plumbing emergency or classroom temperatures nobody could teach in. One district GAO visited closed after classrooms reached 110 degrees. The cancellations affected an estimated 2 million students and cost an estimated 3.5 million days of learning. Nearly half of districts (47 percent) reported chronic facility problems, 55 percent called their most recent facilities budget insufficient, and 73 percent said limited state formula funding for facilities held them back. GAO publishes the confidence interval on every one of those figures, which is more than most numbers you will read this week can say.
Also filed undergaok-12school-facilitiespublic-spending
A judge gave the Education Department until September 11 to explain its new college admissions data collection. The explanation is published — including a 200-hour-per-school burden estimate.
In Massachusetts v. U.S. Department of Education, the federal court in Massachusetts granted the Department's motion to remand its Admissions and Consumer Transparency Supplement — a new component of the federal college data system, IPEDS — without vacating it, and ordered any supplemental explanation filed no later than September 11, 2026. The Department's revised explanation was published in the Federal Register on September 14. It defends collecting admissions data broken out by race-sex pair and by admissions test score quintile as central to the collection's purpose, and it estimates the work for each institution at 200 hours, against 6 to 9 hours for most other components of the same system. Whether the court accepts the explanation is not yet known.
Also filed underipedsadmissionsfederal-registercourtsdata-collection
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