ProPublica: “In the past few years, school vouchers have become universal in a dozen states… and, with Donald Trump returning to the White House, they will likely have federal support.”

New York Times: “With Monday’s authorization and 27 previous ones, the Biden administration has forgiven over $180 billion in student loans, even as its larger policy vision never took root.”

“In the waning days of Joe Biden’s presidency, his administration announced on Monday that it will provide student debt relief to 150,000 borrowers,” Politico reports.

“Almost 85,000 attended schools that defrauded their students; 61,000 have total and permanent disabilities; and 6,100 are public service workers.”

Associated Press: Despite collapse of his forgiveness plan, millions had student loans canceled under Biden.

“The U.S. Supreme Court said on Friday it will review a lower court’s decision to block a Biden administration rule that helped forgive student debt held by borrowers who were defrauded by their colleges,” USA Today reports.

“A federal judge in Kentucky on Thursday struck down President Biden’s effort to expand protections for transgender students and make other changes to the rules governing sex discrimination in schools, ruling that the Education Department had overstepped and violated teachers’ rights by requiring them to use students’ preferred pronouns,” the New York Times reports.

Washington Post: “In the waning days of the Biden administration, activists are urging the Education Department to discharge the student debt of older borrowers who they say are in no position to repay. They say the department could use a little-known federal statute that considers a person’s ability to pay within a reasonable time and the inability of the government to collect the debt in full.”

“There are 2.8 million federal student loan borrowers aged 62 and older with a total of $121.5 billion in debt, more than 726,300 of them over the age of 71, according to the Education Department.”

“Fear and uncertainty are spreading across many US college campuses ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s January 20 inauguration, with some schools advising international students to return early from winter break amid promises of another travel ban like the one that stranded students abroad at the start of Trump’s last term,” CNN reports.

Charlie Sykes: “America’s education system is in trouble, but neither Republicans nor Democrats are up for the challenge of enforcing change.”

“University leaders are bracing for an onslaught of aggressive legislation and regulations amid growing hostility from an ascendant Republican Party that depends less and less on college-educated voters,” the Washington Post reports.

“For years, conservatives have seen colleges and universities as unwelcoming and disdainful of their values. Tensions between Republicans and higher education have been rising over questions of free speech, the cost of college, diversity, race and more.”

“Now that rift has become a rupture.”

“President-elect Donald Trump is poised to pull the plug on President Joe Biden’s yearslong push to cancel student debt for tens of millions of people as Republicans sweep into power in the coming months,” Politico reports.

New York Times: “When students have protested this fall, administrators have often enforced—to the letter—new rules created in response to last spring’s unrest. The moves have created scenes that would have been hard to imagine previously, particularly at universities that once celebrated their history of student activism…”

“The changes follow federal civil rights complaints, lawsuits and withering congressional scrutiny accusing universities of tolerating antisemitism, after some protesters praised Hamas and called for violence against Israelis.”

“The national furor in recent years around banning books on race and gender in public schools is intensifying as President-elect Donald Trump threatens to shut down the Department of Education, emboldening conservatives to end ‘wokeness’ in classrooms,” the Los Angeles Times reports.

“Texas education officials approved in an initial vote on Tuesday a new elementary school curriculum that infuses material drawn from the Bible into reading and language arts lessons, a contentious move that would test the limits of religion’s presence in public education,” the New York Times reports.

“Texas education officials are expected to vote this week on whether to approve a new elementary-school curriculum that infuses teachings on the Bible into reading and language arts lessons,” the New York Times reports.

“The optional curriculum, one of most sweeping efforts in recent years to bring a Christian perspective to more students, would test the limits of religious instruction in public education.”

“It could also become a model for other states and for the administration of President-elect Donald J. Trump, who has promised to champion the conservative Christian movement in his second presidential term.”