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Gov. Jared Polis and Education Secretary Linda McMahon talked K-12 school funding and strategies for getting students workforce-ready during a panel with governors from across the country on Friday in Colorado Springs.
Colorado will receive $66 million in education funding that the Trump administration froze, but Secretary Linda McMahon wouldn't ensure better communication.
The Trump administration is releasing billions of dollars in withheld grants for schools, the Education Department said Friday, ending weeks of uncertainty for educators around the country who rely on the money for English language instruction,
Trump's pick to oversee higher ed was a vice president for a company that paid $13 million to settle accusations it defrauded the student aid system.
Columbia University agreed to the Trump administration’s demands. Education Secretary Linda McMahon called it “a monumental victory for conservatives.”
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Education Secretary Linda McMahon calls Columbia’s $200M settlement with the Trump administration a ‘monumental victory’ and outlines new changes to the university.
Education Secretary Linda McMahon threatened to withhold federal funding from California over allowing transgender student athletes to compete. She said the only way the state could stop this from happening would be to send a letter of apology to all cisgender female athletes and strip trans athletes’ titles.