Federal Updates

Today, Education Week released their latest report on The State of Teaching.

Join Brookings for a webinar on Friday, February 28 at 1:30 p.m. ET with education and legal scholars, including experts in education civil rights enforcement, to discuss the legality of the February 14 guidance letter.

Join the IDEA Full Funding Coalition for a webinar on February 24th at 11am. Learn about the impact of chronic underfunding on students with disabilities, schools, and families.

We’ve had a variety of good resources come across our desks as groups look to provide real-time information on what proposed policy changes—including funding cuts and gutting USED—will mean, and several of these provide state or local analysis.

On January 29, 2025, the Trump administration issued two executive orders with significant implications for public schools: “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling” and “Expanding Educational Freedom and Opportunity for Families.”

Last week, the Trump administration signaled rescission of a 2021 memo by DHS SecretaryAlejandro Mayorkas that designated schools, as well as other community services as“protected areas”. Find answers on what this means for the education community on this page.

Yesterday, the White House budget office announced a federal funding freeze, sparking concerns across the education community. While there is still much to clarify, here’s the latest information we have and how AESA is responding.

FCC released the latest Universal Service Fund monitoring report, using information available as of September 2024. The section specific to E-Rate starts on page 54.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published a much-anticipated update to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule (COPPA Rule)–and it is not what the education community was hoping for.

USED’s latest resource, 2025 K-12 Digital Infrastructure Brief: Accessibility, is the fourth installment in a series of resources designed to support educational leaders in creating and sustaining inclusive digital infrastructures.