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The court fight focuses on the Biden administration's extension of Title IX rules to apply to discrimination based on gender identity. The injunction was granted a day before the change was to take effect.

The injunction by a federal judge applies in Alaska, Kansas, Utah and Wyoming, as well as a Stillwater, Oklahoma, middle school that has a student suing and to members of three groups fighting the rule.

Florida, three other states and four organizations challenged the Biden administration's addition of sexual orientation and gender identity to the landmark law that bars discrimination in education based on sex.

The report suggests policies to expand dual enrollment access to underrepresented student groups.

Borrowers who initially took out less than $12,000 in student loans could soon get them forgiven by the federal government. Under Secretary of Education James Kvaal explains to WLRN how — and says 'please apply.'

The Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights launched an investigation into UT and Hillsborough County Schools under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.

The Biden administration is asking a federal judge to toss out a lawsuit filed by Florida that challenges the constitutionality of accreditation requirements for colleges and universities.

The Congressional Black Caucus is pushing the White House, Justice Department and the Department of Education to look into whether Florida school districts are violating federal discrimination law following changes to the state's Black history curriculum.

The lawsuit challenges a federal law that requires colleges and universities to submit to private accreditors to qualify for federal funding.

Federal officials had been withholding a third of the more than $7 billion dollars that was allocated for Florida schools under the American Rescue Plan Act. About $2.35 billion was released to the state.

The U.S. Department of Education dropped a cease-and-desist order after the state returned money it had been withholding from school districts that had since reversed their mask mandates.

The state Department of Education has withheld hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal funding from the districts because of their masking policies, defying warnings from the Biden administration.