Janaki Mehta

In its 2027 budget, the Trump administration has proposed significant cuts to the education department.

Since she was sworn in, Linda McMahon has been tasked with dismantling her own department.

That has included a pledge to move special education offices out of the department and into other agencies.

McMahon said her department was still evaluating where those programs would go.

but said the Departments of Labor and Health and Human Services were likely candidates.

That's a move special education advocates have long opposed.

Special ed funding was one of the few parts of the budget, though, where the department proposed increasing spending, though McMahon did not outline exactly how that money would be used.

Janaki Mehta, NPR News.

The Americans with Disabilities Act has always required the web to be accessible.

It just never had specific standards explaining what that had to look or sound like.

Then in 2024, under the Biden administration, the Justice Department announced specific guidelines.

Colleges, schools, cities, and other public entities had until this week to get up to snuff.

That included all web and mobile learning materials for students.

But at the last minute, the DOJ has postponed the deadline.

Now larger institutions have until April of next year and smaller ones until 2028.

This has left disability rights organizations frustrated, while some school administrators are relieved they have extra time to be compliant.

Janaki Mehta, NPR News.

Graduate degrees in medicine, law, pharmacy, and certain engineering degrees tend to have a high return on investment.

That's according to a new report from the Post-Secondary Education and Economics Research Center at American University.

But the same cannot be said of clinical psychology or social work degrees, for example.