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Just in : “The role and power of education in an occupied society is enormous. Education posits possibilities and opens horizons. Freedom of thought contrasts sharply with the apartheid wall, the shackling checkpoints,…
Just in : This week, around a hundred leading European academics signed a petition titled “Annihilation of Gaza Education: Israel is systematically erasing the entire educational system,” they wrote. They protested the Israeli military’s…
Yesterday: Columbia president Nemat Shafik, fresh from an examination by the House Committee on Education and the Workforce in Washington, DC, took the then-extraordinary step of …inviting the NYPD to campus to clear the protesters.…
Yesterday: Republican Rep. Virginia Foxx at a House Education and Workforce Committee Hearing on December 5th, 2023. …two public defenders in New York City filed a lawsuit against their union, the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys,…
Yesterday: (At least one other staffer has publicly resigned from the department, while a Palestinian American staffer at the Department of Education resigned publicly in January.) Secretary of State Antony Blinken “reads every single one of…
08.05 2024: The hearings were the House Education and Workforce Committee’s first foray into investigating antisemitism at K-12 schools after Incidents at all three school systems are all currently under investigation by the U.…
08.05 2024: . The White House before the speech listed new measures under the strategy that it would launch in coming days, including a letter from the Department of Education to schools and universities around the country outlining how expressions…
08.05 2024: “Hate or bigotry of any kind have no home in our city’s schools.” Previous hearings held by the House Committee on Education and the Workforce have sparked transformations in the national campus landscape.…
07.05 2024: the bill mandates the inclusion of Holocaust education in Maine’s learning standards. The Department of Education conducted a review of these standards in the summer of 2023, revising them to reflect the new bill.…
03.05 2024: The cohort will be led by former U.S. Secretary of Education John King, who is now the chancellor of the State University of New York, as well as Yeshiva University President Rabbi Ari Berman. The group will include leaders from public,…
03.05 2024: — Education Secretary Miguel Cardona had a presentation ready on combating antisemitism in schools and universities — an issue that has been at the center of a burning debate in recent weeks over pro-Palestinian encampments at campuses nationwide.…
01.05 2024: Kenneth Marcus, the chairman of the Brandeis Center for Human Rights and a Department of Education civil rights official under the Trump administration, said that the bill, should it become law, would be a useful tool on campuses given…
30.04 2024: To this day, Section 117 of the Higher Education Act requires universities to report foreign gifts above $250,000. Unfortunately, weak enforcement by the Department of Education allowed many universities to ignore the requirement.…
25.01 2024: Some Jewish critics of higher education — including the conservative activist who filed the Title VI complaint that triggered Northwestern’s U.S. Department of Education investigation — have attacked the committee and its members in…
22.01 2024: …which is already active at Bar-Ilan University, with support from the Council for Higher Education in Israel and the science accelerator program of the Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology.…
18.01 2024: On Campus Reform, he published partial copies of letters from the Department of Education confirming that it had opened the investigations based on his complaints; a statement from a Brown representative also noted that the…
12.01 2024: “Jewish Federation is very pleased that the Department of Education is taking these incidents seriously,” Knopf said. “The rights of Jewish students matter just as much as everyone else’s, and it‘s our job and the federal government’s…
09.01 2024: In 2011, Tal won Israel’s National Education Prize for her achievements, HBO made a film about the school called . The $100,000 prize was established in 2004 by the children of Canadian philanthropist Charles Bronfman — Ellen Bronfman…
09.01 2024: Ouria Tadmor The Council for Higher Education is due to publish revised conditions for setting up a medical school, behind which is a clash between Reichman University and the existing schools. In the coming weeks,…
03.01 2024: The Department of Education, which opened the investigation Tuesday, declined a Jewish Telegraphic Agency request for comment. Its Office for Civil Rights has said that the opening of such investigations does not mean the department…
27.12 2023: Feds to probe University of North Carolina's response to harsh anti-Israel speech - Jewish Telegraphic Agency The Department of Education told a pro-Israel group it was investigating allegations of antisemitic speech at UNC.…
27.12 2023: …senior director of Knowledge, Ideas and Learning at the New York-based Jewish Education Project …she encourages educators to embrace AI. The connection between the two was the focus of last spring’s Samantha Vinokor-Meinrath at…
22.12 2023: …instead of the PEACE BEGINS HERE, the theme of UN Education since the birth of the UN in 1945. So far, no media outlet in Israel will publicize the message that UNRWA and the PA praise the cold-blooded murder of the family of Rabbi Dee,…
22.12 2023: In 2013, the University of Michigan’s Center for the Education of Women rescinded an invitation for Walker to speak at its 50th anniversary celebration; By 2017, Walker’s tone had hardened — not only against Israel,…
21.12 2023: Department of Education investigations. …since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war and is announcing new investigations at a rapid clip, dramatically increasing the pace of civil rights inquiries that it opens.…
13.12 2023: …implementing its antisemitism strategy, including consolidating Education Department protections for victims of religious bigotry; training on identifying antisemitism and Islamophobia across a number of executive agencies;…
08.12 2023: President of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, testify before the House Education and Workforce Committee on December 5, 2023, in Washington, DC. The Committee held a hearing to investigate antisemitism on college campuses.…
13.11 2023: The Education Ministry is continuing to push advertisements calling on teachers to contact it. Israeli soldiers killed a squad of 21 terrorists who opened fire on them from the entrance of Al-Quds Hospital in Gaza City.…
11.11 2023: Speakers included former Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, former Education Minister Shay Piron, singers Shlomo Artzi and Ninet Tayeb, and representatives of hostages' families. Demonstrators marked the birthday of Sasha Tropanov,…
10.11 2023: The Community Education Council in District 14 in Brooklyn, an elected entity that is part of the city’s school governance structure, also signed onto the rally. The council and several other organizers did not respond to requests…
09.11 2023: Tom McClintock said at one point to Kenneth Marcus, a witness who served in the Trump administration’s Education Department and chairs the Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, a pro-Israel group that has repeatedly …
07.11 2023: 7 massacre of Israeli civilians, according to a report by the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education released on Monday. The Nov. 6 report also reveals evidence of the connection between the…
31.10 2023: The government officials, led by Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff and Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, told the Jewish leaders they would reconvene with them to lay out the proposal, sources in the off-the-record meeting Monday told…
30.10 2023: The meeting will take place at the Department of Education, and later this week, the secretary of education will travel to a campus for a roundtable with Jewish students. Doug Emhoff, the Jewish Second Gentleman who launched a task force…
30.10 2023: Senior administration officials — including Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff and Education Secretary Miguel Cardona — will meet with Jewish establishment officials on Monday to discuss the matter, while Cardona and Domestic Policy…
28.10 2023: …under that definition, could be investigated by the Department of Education for violating the Civil Rights Act of 1964. So, it was specifically around college campuses or other schools.
28.10 2023: On October 13th, the Education Ministry recommended banning the keffiyeh—the Palestinian scarf—in schools, citing “a threat to school peace.” Meanwhile, Berlin police have Banned almost every rally in solidarity with Gaza since…
27.10 2023: …will open as early as 2024, if the curriculum receives approval from the Council for Higher Education of Israel. It will initially train about 80 students a year in the first phase, and will peak at approximately 120 students a year.…