“Lau v. Nichols” protects English language learners’ right to learn English, but Trump administration sends responsibility for and oversight of K-12 English language teaching back to the states where Linda McMahon says it belongs.
Trump Admin. Removes Federal Guidance and Dept. of Ed. Office for K-12 English Language Teaching janresseger.wordpress.com/2026/04/21/t...
U.S. Dept. of Education tries to shut down Office of English Language Acquisition.
Trump Administration recently ended previously established settlement agreements between the Dept. of Ed. Office for Civil Rights and school districts to protect the civil rights of transgender students.
Trump Administration Persists in Multi-Pronged Attack on D.E. I. and Civil Rights janresseger.wordpress.com/2026/04/16/t...
Have We Forgotten the Principles and Values that Are the Foundation of Public Schooling? janresseger.wordpress.com/2026/04/14/h...
The flawed assumptions that underpin these bills are that students actually have control of a mass of variables in their lives and that a comfortable life is the reward for living by defined rules and never making a mistake.
Legislators Imagine that Teaching the “Success Sequence” in Schools Will Stamp Out Poverty janresseger.wordpress.com/2026/04/09/4...
In New FY 2027 Federal Budget Proposal, Trump Cuts Public School Funding and Attacks D.E.I. janresseger.wordpress.com/2026/04/07/t...
During Donald Trump’s second term, admnistration officials have remained vigilant about catching colleges and universities they assumed would cheat by finding ways to increase the enrollment of Black and Hispanic students despite the ban imposed by Students for Fair Admissions.
Trump Admin. Continues Demanding and Checking Affirmative Action Data from Universities janresseger.wordpress.com/2026/04/02/t...
“Equity” has now been buried the in the middle of the catch phrase “DEI,” where most of us have stopped thinking about its meaning much at all—except as part of that thing public schools now have to avoid or lose federal funding.
Trump Administration Redefines “Equity”---Denies Public School Services for Immigrant Students janresseger.wordpress.com/2026/03/31/4...
It would be morally wrong to deny children an education as a way to punish parents for the choices they have made.
Stephen Miller Pushes States to Pass Laws Denying Public Education for Undocumented Students janresseger.wordpress.com/2026/03/26/4...
The Youngstown, East Cleveland and Lorain school districts, among Ohio’s poorest, do not have adequate local property taxing capacity to cover the loss of millions of dollars in state funding,
There is something seriously wrong in Ohio, where the legislature keeps cutting state funding even for the poorest school districts trying to emerge from state takeover according to the legislature’s own rules.
Cutting State Funding while Intensifying Test-and-Punish Won’t Improve Public Schools janresseger.wordpress.com/2026/03/24/c...
Being retained in school is a failure that many students may never overcome. It’s time to end retention and focus on solutions that work, that lift children! nancyebailey.com/2026/03/21/g...
President Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship holds children accountable for their parents’ choices---choices for which the children are not responsible.
After he was inaugurated for a second term in January, 2025, President Trump released an executive order ending this generations-long protection.
April 1st: Supreme Court Will Hear Oral Arguments on Trump’s Exec. Order to Deny Birthright Citizenship janresseger.wordpress.com/2026/03/19/b...
Public School Funding Keeps Dropping across U.S., but Ohio Public School Finance Is Especially Precarious janresseger.wordpress.com/2026/03/17/p...
Rachel Perera: “In just one year, the Trump administration has orchestrated a radical overhaul of education civil rights enforcement—unmaking decades of civil rights progress in the process.”
Trump Administration Renders U.S. Dept. of Ed.’s Office for Civil Rights Utterly Dysfunctional janresseger.wordpress.com/2026/03/12/t...
The new frame promotes...vouchers as how the government can help parents protect their children from “the dangerous other.” Parents are told they can insulate their children from exposure to “woke” public schools and “diversity, equity, and inclusion.”
MAGA Promotes “Same Old” Dangerous School Vouchers with a New “Culture War” Frame janresseger.wordpress.com/2026/03/10/m...
Heritage Foundation Strategizes and State Legislatures Propose Laws to Deny Free Public Schools to Undocumented Children janresseger.wordpress.com/2026/03/05/h...
Ours was the society that first developed universally available public schooling. Our system has remained a work in progress, but an education system to serve all of our children with equity and justice has remained the goal.
