But rather than sending the money directly to the four programs that are part of a national network helping students who are deaf and blind, a condition known as deafblindness, the department has instead rerouted the grants to a different organization that will provide funding for those vulnerable students.

The Trump administration targeted the programs in its attacks on diversity, equity and inclusion; a department spokesperson had cited concerns about 鈥渄ivisive concepts鈥� and 鈥渇airness鈥� in explaining the decision to withhold the funding.

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After years of advocating to expand private and religious education and homeschooling, using tax dollars, a cadre of conservative activists is in a position to push forward its agenda. Some of its policies are already undermining public schools, which it has denigrated as unsuccessful and out of step with Christian values, a ProPublica investigation found.

In many communities, public schools are valued hubs for community life and services, including meals, socializing and counseling. More than 80% of students are enrolled in traditional public schools, which must serve all children, including those with disabilities. The administration, however, views public schools as a monopoly that should be broken up.

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Another win came a year later as the state board rejected several textbooks that some Republicans argued could promote a 鈥渞adical environmental agenda鈥� because they linked climate change to human behavior or presented what conservatives perceived to be a negative portrayal of fossil fuels.

By the time the state board approved science and career-focused textbooks for use in Texas classrooms at the end of 2023, it appeared to be comfortably in sync with conservatives who had won control of local school boards across the state in recent years.

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That means that thousands of outstanding complaints filed with the department鈥檚 Office for Civil Rights related to race and gender discrimination鈥攎ost of which are submitted by students and families鈥攚ill continue to sit idle. That includes cases alleging unfair discipline or race-based harassment, for example.

鈥淚 am lifting the pause on the processing of complaints alleging discrimination on the basis of disability. Effective immediately, please process complaints that allege only disability-based discrimination,鈥� Craig Trainor, the office鈥檚 acting director, wrote in an internal memo obtained by ProPublica. It was sent to employees in the enforcement arm of the office, most of whom are attorneys.

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The cuts were made at the behest of聽, the Department of Government Efficiency, and were disclosed on X, the social media platform Musk owns, shortly after ProPublica posed questions to U.S. Department of Education staff about the decision to decimate the agency鈥檚 research and statistics arm, the聽.

A spokesperson for the department, Madi Biedermann, said that the standardized test known as the nation鈥檚 report card, the National Assessment of Educational Progress, would not be affected. Neither would the聽, which allows people to search for and compare information about colleges, she said.

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The legislation for the first time also would require districts to track police activity at schools and disclose it to the state鈥攄ata collection made more pressing as federal authorities have signaled they will deemphasize their role in civil rights enforcement.

A 2022 ProPublica and Chicago Tribune investigation, 鈥淭he Price Kids Pay,鈥� found that even though Illinois law bans school officials from fining students directly, districts skirt the law by calling on police to issue citations for violating local ordinances. It also found that Black students were twice as likely to be ticketed at school than their white peers.

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The attorney general鈥檚 office, which had been investigating student ticketing in one of Illinois鈥� largest high school districts, found that Township High School District 211 in Palatine broke the law when administrators directed police to fine its students for school-based conduct, and that the practice had an 鈥渦njustified disparate impact鈥� on Black and Latino students.

鈥淲e strongly encourage other districts and police departments to review their policies and practices,鈥� the office told .

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In just the past two years, nearly a dozen states have enacted sweeping voucher programs similar to Arizona鈥檚 Empowerment Scholarship Account system, with many using it as a model.

Yet in a lesson for these other states, Arizona鈥檚 voucher experiment has since precipitated a budget meltdown. The state this year faced a $1.4 billion budget shortfall, much of which was a result of the new voucher spending, according to the Grand Canyon Institute, a local nonpartisan fiscal and economic policy think tank. Last fiscal year alone, the price tag of universal vouchers in Arizona skyrocketed from an original official estimate of just under $65 million to roughly $332 million, the Grand Canyon analysis found; another $429 million in costs is expected this year.

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Warner is the gregarious 53-year-old owner of PCS of TN, a 30-person company that does site grading for shopping centers and other construction projects. The second-term Republican state representative 鈥渁bsolutely鈥� supports Donald Trump, who won Marshall County by 50 points in 2020. Warner likes to talk of the threats posed by culture-war bogeymen, such as critical race theory; diversity, equity and inclusion; and Shariah law.

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He tried to steer new hires toward moving there.

But he hit an obstacle: The local schools were sharply divided by race. Virtually all of the public school students were Black, and most white students attended Wilcox Academy, one of the hundreds of private schools in the Deep South that researchers call 鈥渟egregation academies.鈥�

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