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The Report Card with Nat Malkus

Education and the Second Trump Administration, 79 Days In

Apr 9, 2025
01:08:28

A lot has happened in the education world over the last few weeks. President Trump signed an executive order to dismantle the Department of Education. The Trump administration has taken aggressive actions targeting elite universities and has threatened to withhold funding from K–12 schools over DEI programming. And the Department of Education said that states would lose nearly $3 billion in COVID relief funds after prior extensions on spending deadlines were rescinded.

On this episode of The Report Card, Nat Malkus discusses these developments, and more, with Andy Rotherham and Rick Hess.

Andrew J. Rotherham is a co-founder and senior partner at Bellwether and the author of the Eduwonk blog.

Frederick M. Hess is a senior fellow and the director of education policy studies at AEI.

Show Notes:

These Things Happen In Threes, Plus SCOTUS Incoming For Schools.

What Did You Expect to Happen? How DEI Wound Up in Trump’s Crosshairs

Higher Ed Is the New Big Oil

A Memo to College Presidents

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