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The office of Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough is seen at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, June 27, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Republican plan for nationwide private school vouchers deemed in violation of Senate rules

A Republican plan to expand private school vouchers nationwide was dealt a major setback when the Senate parliamentarian said the proposal would run afoul of procedural rules.

The U.S. Department of Education building is seen in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Democratic-led cities and states push back on threats to cut US school funding over DEI

Secretary of Education Linda McMahon speaks to reporters at the White House in Washington, Thursday, March 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

GOP-led states push for control of school aid as Trump promises a smaller federal role in education

President Donald Trump holds up a signed executive order at an education event in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, March 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Trump has ordered the dismantling of the US Education Department. Here’s what that means

In this Oct. 15, 2020, file photo Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos speaks at the Phoenix International Academy in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Matt York, File)

US colleges returning to campus sexual assault rules created during Trump’s first term

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The U.S. Department of Education building is seen in Washington, Nov. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Trump looks to repurpose federal money to expand school choice programs

Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump's choice to be Defense secretary, gives a thumbs up while leaving after his Senate Armed Services Committee confirmation hearing, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Hegseth confirmed as Trump’s defense secretary in tie-breaking vote despite turmoil over his conduct

U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona offers remarks at the first-ever Back-to-School Night at the White House on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Sept. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr., File)

Biden’s education chief says he avoided ‘culture wars’ despite goading from GOP governors

President Joe Biden pauses during a photo opportunity with Medal of Valor recipients in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Jan. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Judge scraps Biden’s Title IX rules, reversing expansion of protections for LGBTQ+ students

FILE - Demonstrators advocating for transgender rights and healthcare stand outside of the Ohio Statehouse on Jan. 24, 2024, in Columbus, Ohio. The rights of LGBTQ+ students will be protected by federal law and victims of campus sexual assault will gain new safeguards under rules finalized Friday, April19, 2024, by the Biden administration. Notably absent from Biden’s policy, however, is any mention of transgender athletes. (AP Photo/Patrick Orsagos, File)

Biden’s new Title IX rules protect LGBTQ+ students, but avoid addressing transgender athletes

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, left, takes notes as Republican candidate Tudor Dixon speaks during a debate televised on WXYZ Channel 7 at Oakland University in Rochester, Mich., on Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2022. (Robin Buckson/Detroit News via AP, Pool)

Michigan governor candidates debate tax cuts, abortion, guns

Republican gubernatorial candidate Tudor Dixon speaks at a primary election party in Grand Rapids, Mich., Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Dixon wins Michigan GOP governor primary, to face Whitmer

FILE - Republican gubernatorial candidate Tudor Dixon answers questions from reporters after the Republican gubernatorial primary debate in Grand Rapids, Mich., on Wednesday, July 6, 2022. Former President Donald Trump on Friday, July 29, 2022, endorsed Dixon in Michigan's crowded Republican primary for governor, just days before voters choose an opponent to face Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. (Daniel Shular/The Grand Rapids Press via AP, File)

Trump endorses Dixon ahead of Michigan GOP governor primary

FILE - Education Secretary Miguel Cardona speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, April 27, 2022. The Biden administration proposed a dramatic rewrite of campus sexual assault rules on Thursday, June 23, moving to expand protections for LGBTQ students, bolster the rights of victims and widen colleges' responsibilities in addressing sexual misconduct. The proposal was announced on the 50th anniversary of the Title IX women’s rights law. Cardona said Title IX has been “instrumental” in fighting sexual assault and violence in education. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

LGBTQ students would get new protections under Biden plan

Michigan initiatives miss deadline, will look to Legislature

Muniz chosen as new Florida Supreme Court chief justice

Weaver gets backing from 2 former South Carolina ed chiefs

FILE - Education Secretary Betsy DeVos speaks during a briefing at the Department of Education building in Washington on July 8, 2020. Former Education Secretary DeVos on Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2022, backed a Michigan ballot drive to let students attend private schools and pay other educational expenses with accounts funded by tax-free corporate and individual donations. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Betsy DeVos supports Michigan school choice ballot drive

FILE - In this July 8, 2020, file photo, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos speaks during a briefing at the Department of Education building in Washington. DeVos said Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2021, she will not run for Michigan governor in 2022, putting an end to speculation about the onetime Trump administration Cabinet member and partner in one of the state’s most influential Republican couples. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

GOP’s DeVos says she will not seek Michigan governorship

FILE - In this Nov. 8, 2020, file photo, a Donald Trump who would only give her first name, Dianna, sits on the steps of the State Capitol with her family as a protest against the presidential election results winds down in Lansing, Mich. While the state has swung back to Democrats since Trump's narrow 2016 win, choosing President Joe Biden by more than 150,000 votes, Michigan's Republican Party has taken a hard right turn. Its own Capitol in Lansing was the rallying point in April for armed Michigan Liberty Militia protesting pandemic restrictions, including some members who were later charged with plotting to kidnap Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

Once the mainstream model, Michigan GOP embraces right wing

Georgia school chief again asks feds to drop mandated tests

FILE - In this Oct. 15, 2020, file photo, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos speaks at the Phoenix International Academy in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Matt York, File)

In farewell, DeVos urges Congress to reject Biden’s policies

FILE - In this Jan. 28, 2020 file photo, Connecticut State Commissioner of Education Miguel Cardona speaks with Berlin High School students while on a tour of the school. President-elect Joe Biden has chosen the education commissioner for Connecticut and a former public school teacher to serve as education secretary. (Devin Leith-Yessian/Berlin Citizen/Record-Journal via AP)

Biden: Cardona right pick to lead education through pandemic

FILE - In this Jan. 28, 2020 file photo, Connecticut State Commissioner of Education Miguel Cardona speaks with Berlin High School students while on a tour of the school. President-elect Joe Biden has chosen the education commissioner for Connecticut and a former public school teacher to serve as education secretary. (Devin Leith-Yessian/Berlin Citizen/Record-Journal via AP)

Biden picks Connecticut schools chief as education secretary

DeVos suspends student federal loan payments through January

FILE - In this Oct. 15, 2020, file photo Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos speaks at the Phoenix International Academy in Phoenix. In a veiled swing at President-elect Joe Biden's education plans DeVos on Tuesday, Dec. 1, blasted the push for free college as a “socialist takeover of higher education” that could damage the nation's economy. (AP Photo/Matt York, File)

DeVos says free college amounts to a ‘socialist takeover’

FILE - Gov. Bill Lee speaks during the Tennessee Higher Education Commission session of the state budget hearings Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2020, in Nashville, Tenn. A prominent voucher group’s outreach efforts to families of students “caused nothing but confusion” while Tennessee attempted to enact a program that would have allowed parents to use tax dollars to pay for private school tuition. According to emails detailing the implementation efforts, officials were clashing with the American Federation for Children as it rushed to get the voucher program up and running. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

Emails: School choice org caused ‘confusion’ in voucher plan

Ivanka Trump, right, and Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue, left, speak with a farming family during a visit to the North Carolina State Farmers Market in Raleigh, N.C., Thursday, Sept. 10, 2020. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

Trump tests limits as Cabinet members fan out to key states

U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos speaks Thursday, Oct. 15, 2020, at the Phoenix International Academy in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Matt York)

Judge slams DeVos for rejecting 94% of loan relief claims

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos arrives on the South Lawn for a ceremony for the signing of the Abraham Accords, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2020, at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

US sees ‘malign influence’ in China-backed school program

FILE - In this Aug. 12, 2020, file photo Education Secretary Betsy DeVos arrives for an event in the State Dining room of the White House in Washington. As millions of American children start the school year online, the Trump administration is hoping to convert their parents’ frustration and anger into newfound support for school choice policies that DeVos has long championed but struggled to advance nationally.(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Trump, DeVos raise school choice in appeal to vexed parents

People line up at the Covid-19 testing site at LSU's Alex Box Stadium parking lot, Tuesday, July 7, 2020, in Baton Rouge, La. (Bill Feig/The Advocate via AP)

Pence urges school reopening in Louisiana amid virus surge

FILE - In this July 7, 2020, file photo, a teacher holds up a sign while driving by the Orange County Public Schools headquarters as educators protest in a car parade around the administration center in downtown Orlando, Fla. As the Trump administration pushes full steam ahead to force schools to resume in-person education, public health experts warn that a one-size-fits-all reopening could drive infection and death rates even higher. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel via AP, File)

Virus spread, not politics should guide schools, doctors say

Trump team eyes school funds boost in next virus aid bill

Vice President Mike Pence speaks during a roundtable discussion on reopening the economy at Rajant Corporation, which makes wireless communication systems, in Malvern, Pa., Thursday, July 9, 2020. (Tim Tai/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP, Pool)

AP FACT CHECK: Trump team’s false comfort on schools, virus

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