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Education and Work @educationwork.newamerica.org · 3d
Here, our VP @kevincarey1.bsky.social issued a statement detailing how "The Trump administration’s latest attempt to dismantle ED is lawless, wasteful, and bad for students."

↘️ Read more about this "illegal" new vision for #education.
Dismantling the Department of Education: Wasteful, Wrong, and Illegal
The Trump administration’s latest attempt to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education is lawless, wasteful, and bad for students.
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Fragmented Federal Education Plan Could Harm Students With Disabilities, Advocates Warn: Parceling out Ed. Dept. work to other agencies risks weakening enforcement of disability rights laws, groups warn.
Fragmented Federal Education Plan Could Harm Students With Disabilities, Advocates Warn
Parceling out Ed. Dept. work to other agencies risks weakening enforcement of disability rights laws, groups warn.
www.edweek.org
November 21, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Opinion: Downgrading education is a disastrous misreading of what our country needs
Downgrading Education Is a Disastrous Misreading of What Our Country Needs
Guernsey: Amid demands to improve reading and integrate AI, do we really want to be a country without a Department of Education in the 21st century?
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November 20, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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"It’s like paying a contractor double to mow your lawn and then claiming you’ve cut the home maintenance budget. It makes no sense." - @kevincarey1.bsky.social @newamerica.org www.newamerica.org/education-po...
Dismantling the Department of Education: Wasteful, Wrong, and Illegal
The Trump administration’s latest attempt to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education is lawless, wasteful, and bad for students.
www.newamerica.org
November 20, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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Department of Education cuts threaten special education for 7.5 million students. Less federal oversight means states will have uneven services, some robust, others nonexistent. Progress from the 1970s ADA could revert. https://bit.ly/4a1RT0q
Special Education Services At Risk Under Department of Education Cuts - EdSurge News
Department of Education cuts leave advocates and parents worried about the fate of special education services.
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November 20, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Impt read from @lisaguernsey.bsky.social at @educationwork.newamerica.org. "In this vision of dismemberment, the word 'education' is scrubbed from any U.S.-led effort to improve our country. The concept of teaching and learning is not important enough to garner federal attention anymore."
Downgrading Education Is a Disastrous Misreading of What Our Country Needs
Guernsey: Amid demands to improve reading and integrate AI, do we really want to be a country without a Department of Education in the 21st century?
www.the74million.org
November 20, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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lisaguernsey.bsky.social
Putting K-12 and PreK-12 programs into the Department of Labor makes no sense. Why in the world would we put people with labor expertise but no educational background in charge of funding programs for kindergartners and little kids? www.the74million.org/article/down...
Downgrading Education Is a Disastrous Misreading of What Our Country Needs
Guernsey: Amid demands to improve reading and integrate AI, do we really want to be a country without a Department of Education in the 21st century?
www.the74million.org
November 20, 2025 at 4:42 PM
educationwork.newamerica.org
"The time has passed when the federal government can afford to give second-level, part-time attention to its responsibilities in education."
newamerica.org New America @newamerica.org · 3d
In a recent episode of Democracy Deciphered, @zahavastadler.bsky.social and @jbeowulf.bsky.social of @educationwork.newamerica.org break down the history, politics, and future of America’s education system.

🎧 Listen now: https://go.newamerica.org/democracy-deciphered-ep-17-5
November 19, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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"It’s like paying a contractor double to mow your lawn and then claiming you’ve cut the home maintenance budget. It makes no sense."

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ICYMI: The Trump administration is moving core U.S. Department of Education offices into other agencies—effectively erasing the agency that serves students.
The U.S. Department of Education building and an American flag
November 19, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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📢 "lawless, wasteful, and bad for students" 📢
kevincarey1.bsky.social Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 4d
My statement on McMahon's plan to dismember the U.S. Department of Education.
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The Trump administration’s latest attempt to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education (ED) is lawless, wasteful, and bad for students. This deeply unpopular administration lacks the votes in Congress to shut down ED. That’s why Secretary McMahon is creating a bureaucratic Rube Goldberg machine that will waste millions of taxpayer dollars by outsourcing vital programs to other agencies. It’s like paying a contractor double to mow your lawn and then claiming you’ve cut the home maintenance budget. It makes no sense. The American people overwhelmingly oppose shutting down ED. Congress won’t allow it. Nobody wants this, other than a few Heritage Foundation zealots who hate public schools. The Department of Education was created to give all students a fair chance for opportunity. Everything about the Trump-McMahon agenda moves America in the opposite direction—less money for high-poverty schools, fewer protections for students with disabilities, diminished access to college. This action is illegal, inefficient, and wrong. If Secretary McMahon doesn’t believe she can do her job, she and her senior staff should return their paychecks and immediately resign.
November 18, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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educationwork.newamerica.org Education and Work @educationwork.newamerica.org · 5d
This week, join our #YouthApprenticeship team for a lunch symposium with the #PAYA Youth Council—a dynamic group of current and former youth #apprentices from around the country.

🗓 TOMORROW
🕦 11:30am
📍 Washington, DC
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November 18, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Today at New America

📅 11/18 @ 11 am ET | A CivicSpace Conversation on Rural-Urban Powerbuilding

📅 11/18 @ 11:30 am ET | PAYA Youth Council Lunch Symposium

📅 https://go.newamerica.org/new-america-events-5 #NewAmericaEvents
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November 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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washingtonpost.com The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 4d
Exclusive: The Education Department plans to move multiple parts of the agency to other federal departments, an unprecedented effort to dismantle an agency created by Congress to ensure all Americans have equal access to educational opportunity.
Trump administration to announce dismantling of much of Education Dept.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order in March seeking to close the department, but only Congress has the power to do that.
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November 18, 2025 at 4:16 PM
educationwork.newamerica.org
This week, join our #YouthApprenticeship team for a lunch symposium with the #PAYA Youth Council—a dynamic group of current and former youth #apprentices from around the country.

🗓 TOMORROW
🕦 11:30am
📍 Washington, DC
🔗 www.newamerica.org/education-po...
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November 17, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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This year marks the 50th anniversary of IDEA—a landmark law that ensured millions of disabled students would receive quality education. Yet, that promised education is at risk today with a federal funding gap of over $38 billion.
A black and white photograph of two young boys, one wearing glasses, sitting and listening attentively in a classroom setting. A yellow banner across the top reads "IDEA AT 50". Text is overlaid on the bottom half of the image: "The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) turns 50 this year. The law ensured disabled kids would have access to public schools and promised funding for schools to make it possible." The source is cited at the bottom. A photo of a young boy wearing glasses, giving a high-five to an unseen adult hand. The title banner reads "IDEA AT 50". Text is overlaid on the bottom half of the image: "IDEA serves children as young as infancy and toddlerhood through its Part C early intervention services. But administrative and funding barriers mean only about half who qualify are enrolled." The source is cited at the bottom. A graphic illustrating a classroom setup with several gray desks and chairs, and a few yellow desks and chairs highlighted in the middle. The title banner reads "IDEA AT 50". Text is overlaid on the bottom half of the image: "During the 2022–23 school year, 7.6 million students between the ages of 3 and 21 received special education services through IDEA. That’s three out of every 20 public school students." The source is cited at the bottom. A photo of a young girl in a pink shirt sitting in a wheelchair and looking directly at the camera, leaning on a table in a classroom. The title banner reads "IDEA AT 50". Text is overlaid on the bottom half of the image: "Vouchers = fewer protections for children The use of vouchers harms students with disabilities by resulting in the forfeiture of nearly all federal protections and the loss of guaranteed special education services." The source is cited at the bottom.
November 13, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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🚀 The application for the 2027 Class of New America Fellows is now open!

Writers, journalists, filmmakers, and creators shaping the public conversation with big, bold stories—we want to hear from you. Apply by Feb 2.

📝 https://go.newamerica.org/apply-new-america-fellows-5
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November 17, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Children with disabilities rely on programs like CCDBG, Head Start, IDEA, and Medicaid for care and early education. But the Trump administration is jeopardizing them all—with a $1T Medicaid cut, a shutdown closing Head Start programs, and now gutting the department that oversees special education.
Child Care and Early Education for Children With Disabilities and Their Families: Key Policies and Programs - National Women's Law Center
In the United States, an estimated 2.2 million children ages 5 and under have a reported disability—which may be an intellectual, physical, and/or developmental disability. For these young children, a...
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November 6, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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This could affect up to 15 percent of public school students. slate.trib.al/oky3zmI
One Consequence of the Government Shutdown Could Be Felt for Decades
A law that has no funding and no enforcement mechanism isn’t much of a law at all.
slate.trib.al
November 13, 2025 at 3:33 PM
educationwork.newamerica.org
True equity demands shared governance and lasting reform.

↘️ Last month, our senior fellow @adamhsays.com detailed how the “the money came” for Black students in Mississippi, but how “the power stayed where it had always been.”
Four balls on a pendulum. Three smaller balls represent HBCU schools using their school seals and a larger ball represents the Institute for Higher Learning.
November 12, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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"We need a comprehensive reauthorization, not policy by patchwork."

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insidehighered.com Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 15d
Opinion | The Higher Education Act Turns 60—and Congress Has Left It to Collect Dust

We need a comprehensive reauthorization, not policy by patchwork. https://bit.ly/4qN4UkB

#EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd
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November 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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"I looked at the marketplace, and I am pretty much priced out of it.”
November 7, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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In the @washingtonmonthly.com college rankings, public universities from a handful of states dominate the top. What are they doing right? And what lessons do they offer about how to provide quality, affordable degrees when help from DC is not coming? w/ @newamerica.org: bit.ly/43Nery5
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November 5, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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🏥 Breakout Spotlight | #NYAS2025
Hospitals are “growing their own” healthcare talent—offering apprenticeships from admin roles to sterile techs to tackle workforce shortages.

🔗 Register: events.blackthorn.io/en/41LNjj6/g... @newamerica.org
November 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Child care crisis deepens as funding slashed for poor families

The first hint of trouble for McKinley Hess came in August. Hess, who runs an infant and toddler care program in Conway, Arkansas, heard that the teen moms she serves were having trouble getting their expected child care assistance…
Child care crisis deepens as funding slashed for poor families
The first hint of trouble for McKinley Hess came in August. Hess, who runs an infant and toddler care program in Conway, Arkansas, heard that the teen moms she serves were having trouble getting their expected child care assistance payments. Funded by a mix of federal and state dollars, those subsidies are the only way many low-income parents nationwide can afford child care, by reimbursing providers for care and lowering the amount parents have to pay themselves. In Arkansas, teen parents have long been given priority to receive this aid. But now, Hess heard, they and many other families in need were sitting on a…
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November 1, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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November 5, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Under McMahon, ED Is Diminished but Not Dead, Experts Say

Inside Higher Ed spoke with more than a dozen politicians, higher education experts and former department employees; their thoughts on the agency’s status varied, but many tried to remain hopeful. https://bit.ly/3WDv9w1
A photo illustration of shadow being cast over a headstone with the U.S. Department of Education seal and a date line labeled "1979-202?."
November 3, 2025 at 3:27 PM