Mackenzie Wilkes

covering education policy @politico | north carolinian | call me, beep me 📧: [email protected] signal: mwilkes.77

[POLITICO @politico]

Trump to shift more programs out of Education Department in latest move to shutter agency https://t.co/ZdYJ4lIJLD

[Mackenzie Wilkes @macwilkes]

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[Mackenzie Wilkes @macwilkes]

State teachers union leaders are urging Dem govs to opt out of the federal scholarship tax credit.

"It's important to be clear about our values before the next presidential cycle begins," NYSUT Pres Melinda Person said.

[Madina Touré @madinatoure]

The leaders of over two dozen teachers unions in 23 Democratic-led states are urging their governors not to opt in to the new federal scholarship tax credit created by the GOP’s sweeping domestic policy law, via @macwilkes https://t.co/lry1i8J3Xo

[Meredith Lee Hill @meredithllee]

Tim Walberg, the Republican who chairs the Committee on Education and Workforce, held up recon 2.0 final passage briefly just now over an amendment that passed in labor approps, per sources

Rs talking through it now. GOP leaders on the floor acknowledged there were some “jurisdictional issues.”

[Alexandra Samuels @AlexSamuelsx5]

NEWS: @club4growth-affiliated groups are launching a $4.3 million ad blitz in Oklahoma’s governor’s race targeting AG Gentner Drummond over his role in the St. Isidore charter school fight—another sign school choice battles are reshaping GOP primaries
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[Mackenzie Wilkes @macwilkes]

The Biden rule would’ve required roughly $1B in additional annual funding from Congress and would’ve likely forced thousands of children to lose out on the free early ed program in order to increase teacher salaries.

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[Mackenzie Wilkes @macwilkes]

The Trump administration is planning to roll back a Biden-era rule requiring Head Start educators be paid on par with public school pre-K teachers.

https://t.co/W7zAoFFZpe

[Nick Niedzwiadek @NickNiedz]

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[PoPville @PoPville]

EXCLUSIVE VIDEO/PHOTOS: Meridian Hill/Malcolm X Park Fountains Flowing!! - Glorious: https://t.co/PeaBVKzlZK

[WABJ - Washington Association of Black Journalists @WABJDC]

We've compiled a jobs sheet for journalists who've been laid off at the Washington Post. If you are hiring, please DM us and we will add the opening to our list. https://t.co/OWN2esMNwC

[POLITICO @politico]

GOP pitches student loan repayment amid affordability struggles https://t.co/pcLKxyV1Ao

[Mackenzie Wilkes @macwilkes]

The language is a compromise after Democrats pushed for a provision that would block the department from offloading its programs across the federal government through interagency agreements — a sticking point in negotiations that I reported last week:

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[Mackenzie Wilkes @macwilkes]

ICYMI: The latest FY26 spending package includes language stating that the Education Department has “no authorities” to transfer its duties to other agencies. It comes as ED has struck seven interagency agreements with four agencies to administer programs

https://t.co/SRWRZwSMQA

[Nieman Lab @NiemanLab]

About half of the teens surveyed believe that journalists frequently “make up details, such as quotes” and “pay for sources.” More than a third of teens believe journalists could improve by simply “Telling the truth,” “Fact checking,” and “Not lying.” https://t.co/AdIPhHzZIh

[Rainesford Stauffer @Rainesford]

I reported on how ongoing delays to SNAP are impacting young people, and I hope you’ll read what they shared: “I know that folks are scared, and we talk about it as a political decision and as a bargaining tool and a policy question, but this is impacting real people’s lives.”

[Bridget Early @bridget__early]

Crain announced layoffs this morning & my team at @modrnhealthcr lost three smart, lovely colleagues. Dave and Michelle are hardworking, talented content editors and Ali is a brilliant, creative audience editor. If you or anyone you know has openings, please reach out/share this

[Natalie Alms @AlmsNatalie]

NEW: DHS moved today to allow ICE and CBP to collect biometrics from children under 14

This is burrowed within a proposed rule to dramatically expand the biometrics required for immigration benefits, requiring "continuous vetting" of immigrants until they're naturalized. More 👇

[Eric Katz @EricM_Katz]

BREAKING: Judge Susan Illston says she plans to grant a preliminary injunction to block the Trump administration from carrying out federal employee layoffs.

Hearing just underway so plan is not yet final. If granted, it'd extend a two-week restraining order currently in place.

[Mackenzie Wilkes @macwilkes]

HHS confirms that more than 58,000 children in Head Start centers nationwide are in programs that will not have federal funding come Nov 1 if the shutdown drags on.
Programs are already starting to close their doors as the shutdown blame game continues:

https://t.co/YxdBHWrQHU