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Alyssa Nadwerny

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Up First from NPR
Trump Changes Tone On Tariffs, Russia And Ukraine, Education Executive Orders

So Harvard didn't return a request for comment, but the order essentially gives the administration the ability to cut off federal funds from schools that don't disclose the money they receive from foreign entities. So you take these two together, and the administration is trying to create ways to hold colleges accountable for ideological overreach and to increase intellectual diversity on campus.

Up First from NPR
Trump Changes Tone On Tariffs, Russia And Ukraine, Education Executive Orders

Exactly.

Up First from NPR
Trump Changes Tone On Tariffs, Russia And Ukraine, Education Executive Orders

Exactly.

Up First from NPR
Trump Changes Tone On Tariffs, Russia And Ukraine, Education Executive Orders

Exactly.

Up First from NPR
Trump Changes Tone On Tariffs, Russia And Ukraine, Education Executive Orders

Basically, Trump requested new federal guidance on school discipline. The measure calls for revoking previous policies by Presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama aimed at reducing racial disparities in, for example, suspensions and expulsions. And the new guidance would prohibit using, quote, racially preferential discipline policies.

Up First from NPR
Trump Changes Tone On Tariffs, Russia And Ukraine, Education Executive Orders

Basically, Trump requested new federal guidance on school discipline. The measure calls for revoking previous policies by Presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama aimed at reducing racial disparities in, for example, suspensions and expulsions. And the new guidance would prohibit using, quote, racially preferential discipline policies.

Up First from NPR
Trump Changes Tone On Tariffs, Russia And Ukraine, Education Executive Orders

Basically, Trump requested new federal guidance on school discipline. The measure calls for revoking previous policies by Presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama aimed at reducing racial disparities in, for example, suspensions and expulsions. And the new guidance would prohibit using, quote, racially preferential discipline policies.

Up First from NPR
Trump Changes Tone On Tariffs, Russia And Ukraine, Education Executive Orders

So the other executive actions focus on things like bolstering workforce training, improving artificial intelligence in schools, and launching a new White House initiative on historically Black colleges and universities.

Up First from NPR
Trump Changes Tone On Tariffs, Russia And Ukraine, Education Executive Orders

So the other executive actions focus on things like bolstering workforce training, improving artificial intelligence in schools, and launching a new White House initiative on historically Black colleges and universities.

Up First from NPR
Trump Changes Tone On Tariffs, Russia And Ukraine, Education Executive Orders

So the other executive actions focus on things like bolstering workforce training, improving artificial intelligence in schools, and launching a new White House initiative on historically Black colleges and universities.

Up First from NPR
Trump Changes Tone On Tariffs, Russia And Ukraine, Education Executive Orders

The collection of orders aim to cement Trump's conservative agenda when it comes to education in America, rolling back policies from the Biden administration, and putting in place additional levers that they can pull when colleges don't follow the policy agendas they have set forth.

Up First from NPR
Trump Changes Tone On Tariffs, Russia And Ukraine, Education Executive Orders

The collection of orders aim to cement Trump's conservative agenda when it comes to education in America, rolling back policies from the Biden administration, and putting in place additional levers that they can pull when colleges don't follow the policy agendas they have set forth.

Up First from NPR
Trump Changes Tone On Tariffs, Russia And Ukraine, Education Executive Orders

The collection of orders aim to cement Trump's conservative agenda when it comes to education in America, rolling back policies from the Biden administration, and putting in place additional levers that they can pull when colleges don't follow the policy agendas they have set forth.

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Hearing For Wrongly Deported Man, Prescription Drug Prices, Harvard Battle Continues

Yeah, the latest move in this standoff, which has about $9 billion in federal grants for Harvard hanging in the balance, it happened on Trump's Truth Social platform with the president writing, quote, perhaps Harvard should lose its tax-exempt status and be taxed as a political entity. if it keeps pushing political, ideological, and terrorist-inspired-slash-supporting sickness.

Up First from NPR
Hearing For Wrongly Deported Man, Prescription Drug Prices, Harvard Battle Continues

Yeah, the latest move in this standoff, which has about $9 billion in federal grants for Harvard hanging in the balance, it happened on Trump's Truth Social platform with the president writing, quote, perhaps Harvard should lose its tax-exempt status and be taxed as a political entity. if it keeps pushing political, ideological, and terrorist-inspired-slash-supporting sickness.

Up First from NPR
Hearing For Wrongly Deported Man, Prescription Drug Prices, Harvard Battle Continues

Yeah, the latest move in this standoff, which has about $9 billion in federal grants for Harvard hanging in the balance, it happened on Trump's Truth Social platform with the president writing, quote, perhaps Harvard should lose its tax-exempt status and be taxed as a political entity. if it keeps pushing political, ideological, and terrorist-inspired-slash-supporting sickness.

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Hearing For Wrongly Deported Man, Prescription Drug Prices, Harvard Battle Continues

And the background is, of course, on Friday, the administration sent Harvard a list of demands. Then on Monday, Harvard's president responded rejecting them, saying they were illegal in an attempt to dictate, quote, "...what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue."

Up First from NPR
Hearing For Wrongly Deported Man, Prescription Drug Prices, Harvard Battle Continues

And the background is, of course, on Friday, the administration sent Harvard a list of demands. Then on Monday, Harvard's president responded rejecting them, saying they were illegal in an attempt to dictate, quote, "...what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue."

Up First from NPR
Hearing For Wrongly Deported Man, Prescription Drug Prices, Harvard Battle Continues

And the background is, of course, on Friday, the administration sent Harvard a list of demands. Then on Monday, Harvard's president responded rejecting them, saying they were illegal in an attempt to dictate, quote, "...what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue."

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Hearing For Wrongly Deported Man, Prescription Drug Prices, Harvard Battle Continues

I understand that there are already legal challenges to this. Yes. A lawsuit filed late last week by Harvard's faculty, along with the American Association of University Professors, is challenging this administration demands tied with withholding funding.