Author: JEREMIAH POFF Washington Examiner

The College Board released its final version of its AP African American studies course Wednesday, adding another chapter to its nearly yearlong feud with the Florida Department of Education and Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL). The course framework is the third iteration, coming more than a year after the College Board launched an initial pilot of…

The House of Representatives voted largely along party lines Thursday to repeal a Biden administration regulation that allows student loan borrowers to make smaller payments on their loans if their annual earnings fall below a certain threshold. House Resolution 88, a Congressional Review Act resolution, passed the lower chamber on a near-party line, 210-189 vote.…

The leaders of the nation’s most elite universities are facing accusations of hypocrisy for defending free speech in the face of anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian protests while censoring conservative views on campus. Harvard University President Claudine Gay, University of Pennsylvania President Elizabeth Magill, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Sally Kornbluth all testified at a hearing…

A bill to tighten reporting requirements for universities that receive donations from foreign entities is one step closer to becoming law after it passed the House of Representatives on a bipartisan vote Wednesday. The Republican-controlled House voted 246-170 to pass the Defending Education Transparency and Ending Rogue Regimes Engaging in Nefarious Transactions Act. Thirty-one Democrats…

Members of Harvard‘s Jewish community expressed shock and horror Tuesday, one day after the institution’s president, Claudine Gay, refused to say that calling for the genocide of Jews violated the school’s harassment policy. During a congressional hearing of the House Education and Workforce Committee, Gay, along with University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill and Massachusetts…

The president of Harvard University refused to say whether calls for the genocide of Jewish people violate the campus’s code of conduct during a congressional hearing Tuesday. During an exchange with Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), Harvard University President Claudine Gay repeatedly declined to say whether students who advocate the “genocide of Jews” would violate the…

President Joe Biden issued a veto threat Monday against a Republican-led effort in Congress to overturn his administration’s income-driven student loan repayment regulation. House Joint Resolution 88 would invoke the Congressional Review Act to repeal the administration’s so-called SAVE plan, which modifies the rules around the income-driven repayment program, which allows student loan borrowers to…

Senior officials at Essex Westford School District in Vermont shut down an attempt to educate students about people who have regretted undergoing a gender transition, claiming it ran afoul of the district’s equity policy. According to internal communications obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request by the parent activist group Parents Defending Education, officials…

The government of the United Kingdom is set to release new guidelines for how schools should respond to students who claim a transgender identity, and indications are that the guidelines will be stricter than those in the United States. The issue of how schools respond to transgender students has become a culture war flashpoint over…

A group of more than 150 faculty members at the various colleges within the University of California system are demanding the system’s president withdraw a recent call for a neutral study of the Middle East. The professors argued a “viewpoint-neutral” approach to teaching students about Israel and the Palestinians would undermine their ability to teach…