The Signal in Education News
The U.S. Department of Education received $79 billion in fiscal year 2026 funding, which President Donald Trump signed into law on Feb. 3 following a House vote of 217-214. The budget compromise will support the department through Sept. 30.
A bipartisan spending deal preserved most Education Department programs and nearly $80 billion in funding for fiscal 2026, despite the Trump administration’s efforts to scale back the agency. The agreement also requires regular briefings to Congress on the reorganization.
The U.S. Department of Education is encouraging states and school districts to use Title II funds to support strategic staffing models, which replace traditional single-teacher classrooms with team-based instruction involving at least two educators teaching the same student roster simultaneously.
This story was co-published with The Guardian. Police departments across the U.S. are quietly leveraging school district security cameras to assist President Donald Trump’s mass immigration enforcement campaign, an investigation by The 74 reveals. Hundreds of thousands of audit logs show police are searching a national…
Schools are expanding remote options as ICE activity drives steep absences. Educators warn hybrid classes strain teachers and can cut funding.
Nearly 44,000 first-generation and low-income students no longer receive assistance with financial aid, tutoring, campus visits or dual-enrollment courses after a national college-access organization lost federal funding last fall. It was the first-ever cancellation of grants for TRIO, a federal program that has helped…
In addition to grants, restored and enhanced bond authority could provide lower-income school districts a better chance of getting funding issues passed.
Most K-12 districts are unprepared to meet federal web accessibility deadlines, with only 14% having completed required digital platform updates. The Department of Justice mandates compliance by April 2026 for counties over 50,000 residents, using Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Version 2.1, Level AA.
Approximately 75,000 unauthorized immigrant students graduate high school annually, with 48% concentrated in California, Florida, New York, and Texas, facing increasing policy challenges that limit their post-graduation opportunities in work and higher education.