Category: Educational Issues

US widens public benefit restrictions for undocumented immigrants

US widens public benefit restrictions for undocumented immigrants

Health Department says immigrants will lose access to 13 more federal programmes, including an educational project for low-income children. United States officials are cutting down further on undocumented immigrants’ access to healthcare programmes and...

Supreme Court clears the way for Trump's plans to downsize the federal workforce

Supreme Court clears the way for Trump’s plans to downsize the federal workforce

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court cleared the way Tuesday for President Donald Trump’s plans to downsize the federal workforce despite warnings that critical government services will be lost and hundreds of thousands of federal...

Trump administration seeks to end all federal contracts with Harvard

Trump administration seeks to end all federal contracts with Harvard

The administration is instructing federal agencies to “seek alternative vendors for future services where you had previously considered Harvard.” The Trump administration intends to ask all federal agencies to seek ways to end their...

Judge blocks Trump administration’s bar on Harvard from accepting international students

Judge blocks Trump administration’s bar on Harvard from accepting international students

Ivy league had filed suit saying the government’s ban was unconstitutional retaliation for defying White House’s demands A US federal judge on Friday blocked the government from revoking Harvard University’s ability to enroll foreign...

Libraries are cutting back on staff and services after Trump’s order to dismantle small agency

Libraries are cutting back on staff and services after Trump’s order to dismantle small agency

Libraries across the United States are cutting back on e-books, audiobooks and loan programs after the Trump administration suspended millions of dollars in federal grants as it tries to dissolve the Institute of Museum...

ICE Duped a Federal Judge Into Allowing Raid on Columbia Student Dorms

ICE Duped a Federal Judge Into Allowing Raid on Columbia Student Dorms

As part of the Trump administration’s targeting of Columbia University students for deportation, a high-ranking Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent submitted a wildly inaccurate affidavit to a federal judge to get a search warrant,...

Columbia suspends over 65 students following pro-Palestinian protest in library

Columbia suspends over 65 students following pro-Palestinian protest in library

NEW YORK (AP) — Columbia University has suspended dozens of students and barred alums and others who participated in a pro-Palestinian demonstration inside the school’s main library earlier this week, a school spokesperson said...

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