Topic: Federal Advocacy

Statement from EdTrust Vice President of P-12 Policy, Practice & Research, Allison Socol, Ph.D.

Twelve educational equity and civil rights organizations submitted a joint public comment to the U.S. Department of the Treasury and Internal Revenue Service regarding the federal tax credit program for contributions to scholarship-granting organizations

EdTrust comments on the U.S. Department of Treasury and Internal Revenue Service's request for comment on the implementation of the new federal school voucher program

US Department of Education has concluded the first week of negotiated rulemaking to implement the new Workforce Pell Grant program

EdTrust in Texas hosted a briefing for advocates to shed a light on a new federal voucher tax credit program, recent moves to dismantle the Department of Education, and proposed federal budget cuts to education and what they mean for Texas students

EdTrust President and CEO Denise Forte provided testimony in a Senate spotlight forum on the Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle the Department of Education

EdTrust comments on the revised information collection request proposing to add the Admissions and Consumer Transparency Supplement (ACTS) survey component to the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS)

Decades of carefully built infrastructure aimed at improving and tracking how American children learn vanished in an ideological attack

Civil rights and education organizations denounce the unlawful transfer of critical U.S. Department of Education offices and responsibilities to other federal agencies