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Laura Meckler

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National education writer @washingtonpost. DREAM TOWN: Shaker Heights and the Quest for Racial Equity available for preorder-amazon.com/Dream-Town-S

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NEW: Peggy Carr, commissioner of the Nat'l Center on Education Statistics and a two-decade+ veteran at Educ Dept, was abruptly put on leave today. She runs NAEP, the national math and reading tests seen as important marker of educational progress washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/…

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.ADL chief questions Trump’s aggressive effort to find and deport foreign students who have protested on behalf of Palestinians, suggesting that the administration is betraying American values, denying due process and punishing people for their views. washingtonpost.com/education/2025…

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SCOOPY: The Educ Dept's civil rights office has terminated an already agreed-to agreement with a SD school district regarding equal treatment of Native American students because, they said, the agreement included DEI. More reviews like this are coming. washingtonpost.com/education/2025…

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For decades, the fed’l gov’t used data analysis - known as disparate impact - to ferret out discrimination, winning cases and reaching settlements in housing, education, policing + more. Now the Trump admin is unwinding those cases. w/ Julian Mark washingtonpost.com/business/2025/…

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Big setback for the school choice movement as Senate parliamentarian nixes school voucher program from giant tax bill. The provision would give a dollar-for-dollar tax credit for donations to state-based scholarship-granting org. washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/…