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FBI is serving search warrants at the Los Angeles Unified School District’s headquarters and the superintendent’s home

Wed, 25 Feb 2026 18:20:13 +0000

The FBI is serving search warrants at the Los Angeles Unified School District’s headquarters and the superintendent’s home.

Federal officials in Los Angeles were serving the search warrants Wednesday as part of an ongoing investigation, according to a person familiar with the investigation who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity to discuss the probe. The nature of the investigation and what allegations were being examined was not immediately clear.

The district and the superintendent’s office did not immediately respond to emails and a voicemail requesting comment from The Associated Press.

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Absences and loss of innocence: ICE raids leave behind a heavy weight in Minnesota schools

Tue, 03 Feb 2026 17:51:34 +0000

School drop-offs and pick-ups across Minneapolis look a lot different since Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents came to town.

Kate Lundquist, a mom of six and a local teacher, told CNN, these days—as she hustles her children out the door—she finds herself checking to make sure her two adopted sons have their citizenship documents.

As the mother of a Black teenager—who lives mere miles from where George Floyd was murdered—Lundquist said her blended family has already had tough conversations around how to interact with local police officers.

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Who is Ian Roberts, the Iowa school superintendent accused by ICE of being in the U.S. illegally?

Mon, 29 Sep 2025 13:40:34 +0000

A year into his tenure as superintendent of Iowa’s largest school district, former Olympian Ian Roberts made headlines when—in a maroon three-piece suit, candy cane striped bow tie and matching Nike Air Force 1 sneakers—he ran a 100-meter dash against some of his elementary school students.

An 11-year-old crossed the finish line a few steps ahead of Roberts, who represented Guyana in the 800 meters in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, CNN affiliate KCCI reported.

It was a small but unforgettable lesson.

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Education Department pays over $7 million a month to employees forced to sit idle

Tue, 10 Jun 2025 14:38:17 +0000

The U.S. Department of Education is paying more than $7 million a month to employees it has forced to go on leave, according to analysis from the American Federation of Government Employees Local 252, the union that represents department employees.

The payments could continue for years amid a long court battle over cuts instituted by the Trump administration.

The department has already paid more than $21 million to idle employees over the last three months, AFGE has calculated, after they were terminated in March when the agency cut nearly half of its workforce. Roughly 1,300 people were laid off and hundreds more took voluntary “buyouts.”

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Dismantling of Education Department puts future of trillions of dollars in student loans in question

Fri, 07 Mar 2025 19:43:16 +0000

As President Donald Trump prepares to order the dismantling of the Department of Education, the financial arm of the agency—which makes loans directly to borrowers and manages trillions of dollars in student debt—faces an uncertain future, with steep staff cuts and lack of communication exacerbating the uncertainty, according to interviews with more than a dozen current and former department employees.

The $1.64 trillion financial portfolio is managed separately from the department’s policy apparatus, the latter of which Trump has sought to wind down or reassign to other agencies. But Trump acknowledged Thursday that the massive loan balance was a complicating factor in his effort to shutter the agency.

“We’ve actually had that discussion today,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office, suggesting that the debt could land at Treasury, Commerce, or the Small Business 91��Ƭistration. He said SBA 91��Ƭistrator Kelly Loeffler “would really like to do it.”

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Oklahoma governor rejects plan to ask students about immigration status and slams ‘political drama’ at board of education

Tue, 25 Feb 2025 14:14:16 +0000

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt rejected a controversial state board of education proposal to ask students’ families about their immigration status and criticized the board’s “needless political drama” in a challenge to the state’s increasingly Trumpian educational direction.

The proposal, which requires parents to report their immigration or citizenship status when enrolling their children in school, came as President Donald Trump and Republican leaders pledged to crack down on undocumented immigrants and carry out a mass deportation plan.

In just over a month in power, the Trump administration has sent troops to the U.S.-Mexico border, deported migrants to Guantanamo Bay and moved to strip temporary protections for certain migrants.

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Private schools, like in Wisconsin shooting, are responsible for their security. Here’s how they try to protect students

Fri, 20 Dec 2024 14:50:32 +0000

When a student carried out a shooting at Abundant Life Christian School this week, there was no school resource officer on site. And when six people were killed last year at another private Christian school in Nashville, there wasn’t one either.

While school resource officers are not the only way to secure a school, and best practices to keep students safe on campus are similar among all schools in the United States, experts told CNN it can be challenging for some private schools to cover their security costs.

“Rarely do we see a circumstance where a private school is able to house a school resource officer and that’s for a variety of reasons. It’s something the private school would have to self-fund,” said Mo Canady, executive director of the National Association of School Resource Officers, a nonprofit group of school-based security professionals.

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Lunchables removed from national school lunch program

Wed, 13 Nov 2024 14:10:20 +0000

Lunchables will no longer be on the menu at schools around the United States.

Kraft Heinz, the company that produces Lunchables, announced Tuesday that it will remove the meal kits from the National School Lunch Program.

The company pulled the product because demand did not reach its targets, but it plans to revisit the idea in the future, according to an emailed statement from Kraft Heinz.

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Oklahoma parents and teachers sue to stop top education official’s classroom Bible mandate

Mon, 21 Oct 2024 13:17:44 +0000

A group of Oklahoma parents of public school students, teachers and ministers filed a lawsuit seeking to stop the state’s top education official from forcing schools to incorporate the Bible into lesson plans for students in grades 5 through 12.

The lawsuit filed Thursday with the Oklahoma Supreme Court also asks the court to stop Republican State Superintendent Ryan Walters from spending $3 million to purchase Bibles in support of his mandate.

The suit alleges the mandate violates the Oklahoma Constitution because it involves spending public money to support religion and favors one religion over another by requiring the use of a Protestant version of the Bible. It also alleges Walters and the state Board of Education don’t have the authority to require the use of instructional materials.

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What this high school senior wants adults to know about classroom phone bans

Tue, 08 Oct 2024 14:55:50 +0000

When my friends and I walked into homeroom on the first day of school this year, my teacher told all of us to put our phones in a black plastic box on an old desk by the classroom door.

Handing over our phones during class is an official school policy, and my teachers always make this announcement at the beginning of the school year. But teachers would usually forget about the box by third period on the first day, never to be mentioned again by the second day of school. This year, however, the policy stuck that entire first day — and every day since.

I asked my Latin teacher why the school was suddenly getting so strict on phones. It turns out that over the summer most of the teachers had read social psychologist Jonathan Haidt’s book “: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness.”

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