Special Education is Under Attack: Here's What You Can Do & More

Jun 25, 2026

I’ve taught high school English in upstate New York for eighteen years, and today is the last day of regular classes, so I’d like to teach one more lesson before final exams begin. It will be a lesson on the literary term “Juxtaposition,” the act of placing two things side by side to highlight their contrasting differences.

Let’s start with a thought exercise…

Imagine this. After his New York Knicks dispatched the San Antonio Spurs in five, hard-fought games, securing the franchise’s first title in 53 years, series MVP Jalen Brunson took the NBA Championship Trophy, then screamed into a microphone, “Melania Trump is a prostitute.”

Panel Alert: Special Education Under Threat: What the Decisions from the Department of Education Mean for Parents, Practitioners, and Students

Department of Education moves special education and civil rights enforcement to other agencies

The U.S. Department of Education said Monday it has signed four new interagency agreements with the Departments of Health and Human Services and the Justice Department, shifting day-to-day support for special education and civil rights enforcement to those agencies as part of the Trump administration’s broader drive to shrink the federal role in education.

New Workforce Pell Grants to Fund Short-Term Job Training Starting July 2026

The U.S. Department of Education announced a final rule on Monday establishing the Workforce Pell Grant program, which will allow students to use federal Pell Grants for short-term career training programs beginning July 1, 2026.

The program, created under the Working Families Tax Cuts Act that President Trump signed into law on July 4, 2025, extends Pell Grant eligibility beyond traditional undergraduate degrees to high-quality, short-term programs designed to prepare students for in-demand jobs. Officials say some qualifying programs could be completed in as little as eight weeks.

Indiana University won't renew contract of a lecturer investigated over white supremacy graphic

A social work lecturer at the University of Indiana is out of work after teaching a class about white supremacy. The class? “Diversity, Human Rights, and Social Justice.”

A student complained, and a sitting U.S. Congressman with ties to Trump reported her to the Dean of the Department.