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Learn more here. | | | — "We're very much going to put pressure on governors and everybody else to open the schools," President Donald Trump declared, while Education Secretary Betsy DeVos lashed out at school districts that haven't promised to fully reopen classrooms this fall. — A new FAQ document from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement addresses the agency's plan to deport certain foreign students enrolled at U.S. colleges and universities, or bar them from entering the country, if they only use online classes to study this fall. — Ivy League presidents plan to announce a "final decision" on intercollegiate sports at their schools today. IT'S WEDNESDAY, JULY 8. Senate Republicans could lose nearly half of the women in their caucus after recently making painstaking gains — the latest potential blow to the party in the Trump era. Nearly 4 in 10 Black and Hispanic households with children are struggling to feed their families during the coronavirus pandemic. 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Download for iOS and Android. | | | | | | RAMPED-UP PUSH TO REOPEN SCHOOLS: As Trump vowed on Tuesday to "put pressure" on reluctant governors, DeVos blasted education leaders who won't accept risk and "gave up and didn't try" to launch summer instruction. — But the result was intensifying tensions with teachers unions and leading school groups, Nicole Gaudiano reports. They charged that the Trump administration in a "vacuum of leadership" has "zero credibility in the minds of educators and parents when it comes to this major decision." — The dispute leaves the White House deeply at odds with many involved in making major decisions in the next few weeks about reopening schools. The White House devoted most of Tuesday to its suddenly energized drive to reopen schools that shuttered during the pandemic, insisting it's okay to move ahead and that decisions last spring to close down came from states rather than health experts at the CDC. — Later on Tuesday, DeVos told Fox News' Tucker Carlson that she's "very seriously" looking at withholding federal funding from schools that don't reopen. HAPPENING TODAY: Vice President Mike Pence will lead a White House Coronavirus Task Force briefing at Education Department headquarters starting at 11 a.m., in another sign of the growing Republican calls to get classes back in session. HOUSE PANEL ADVANCES EDUCATION SPENDING BILL: The House appropriations subcommittee overseeing education funding on Tuesday approved Democrats' plan to boost the Education Department's budget for fiscal 2021 by roughly 1 percent. The panel voted 9-6, along party lines, and the bill now heads to the full House Appropriations Committee. — As expected, Republicans voted against the proposal. Rep. Tom Cole, the top Republican on the subcommittee overseeing education funding, said that he opposed, among other things, Democrats' plan to reduce federal funding for charter schools in the bill. | | | | HAPPENING TODAY AT 12 PM EDT - HOW IS MAYOR FRANCIS SUAREZ APPROACHING THE COVID-19 SPIKE IN MIAMI? A rapid spike in coronavirus cases has forced Miami to scale back reopening plans. What will come next? Join POLITICO Nightly author Renuka Rayasam and Miami Mayor Francis Suarez for a conversation about the next steps, including plans to handle the virus' resurgence, measures that will take shape when schools reopen, and how a city reliant on tourism can recover from the devastation wrought by the pandemic. REGISTER HERE. | | | | | | | | FOREIGN STUDENT ONLINE LEARNING BAN INTENDED TO MINIMIZE COVID-19, GOVERNMENT SAYS: International students are fearful, higher education groups are angry, and schools are trying to evaluate a government plan that threatens to deport certain foreign students enrolled at U.S. colleges and universities, or bar them from entering the country, if they only use online classes to study this fall. — But new guidance from ICE says the proposed policy is intended to "maximize flexibility for students to continue their studies, while minimizing the risk of transmission of COVID-19 by not admitting students into the country who do not need to be present to attend classes in-person." — "Students will not be permitted to enter or remain in the United States to attend (online-only) schools but they are not barred from continuing to attend all classes at these schools from abroad," the ICE document says. "This approach balances students' ability to continue their studies while minimizing the risk of spread of COVID-19 in our communities by ensuring that individuals who do not need to be present in the United States are not physically here." — Two major public universities said the looming, temporary immigration rule for the coming semester won't affect their plans to offer students a hybrid version of online and in-person classes this fall. More from your host and POLITICO's Max Cohen. WILL THE IVY LEAGUE PARTICIPATE IN SPORTS THIS FALL? The Ivy League Council of Presidents is expected to announce its "final decision" on the status of fall semester intercollegiate athletics today, as the coronavirus pandemic continues to force a reckoning on the value of America's sporting scene. — The decision could wield notable influence on the future of college sports. The Ivy League Conference was one of the first entities to act as the pandemic upended March Madness this spring, when it scrapped its championship basketball tournaments. Schools are now racing to resume competition, and stand to send a message about the influence of athletics — and the cash produced by big-time programs — in higher education. — There's already considerable doubt that fall sports can proceed on time, and under their normal schedules. Fordham University in New York canceled its first three football games of the coming season on Tuesday, including a Sept. 12 tilt with the University of Hawaii. In the NCAA's Division III tier, the athletics conference that includes Johns Hopkins University won't play football in the fall and may shift certain fall sports to a spring schedule. Rutgers University announced it would continue to suspend all campus activities this fall, while saying decisions about the upcoming sports season will be guided by state requirements and athletic conference policies. — What to do? The Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics on Tuesday released a seven-point list of "guidelines and considerations" for making decisions about reopening college sports. | | | |  | | | | | | DRAKE TO HELM UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SYSTEM: Michael V. Drake, former president of the Ohio State University, was named the new president of the University of California system on Tuesday. He replaces Janet Napolitano, a former Arizona governor and homeland secretary for President Barack Obama, who took over at UC in 2013. — Drake, UC's first Black president, faces a tumultuous first year, tasked with overseeing a higher education system rocked by the Covid-19 pandemic as campuses scramble to transition to online learning for the long-term and grapple with major budget cuts brought on by the economic downturn. More from Mackenzie Mays. ANOTHER LAWSUIT: Five states and the District of Columbia are suing DeVos over her policy governing how public schools must direct pandemic relief funding to private school students, Michael Stratford reports. — The legal challenge to DeVos' "equitable services" interim final rule, which took effect on July 1, was filed on Tuesday by the attorneys general of Michigan, California, D.C., Maine, New Mexico and Wisconsin, all of whom are Democrats. — Separately, the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service gave a boost to critics of DeVos' approach, concluding in a report earlier this month that the "most straightforward" reading of the CARES Act, H.R. 748 (116), requires public schools to distribute aid to private school students based on the number of low-income children at the private school. | | | | BECOME A CHINA WATCHER: Need help navigating the diplomatic flare-ups between the Trump administration and the Chinese Communist Party? Get unique insight on this critical relationship that will shape the world for decades to come, and analysis on the power players driving the conversation. Become a China Watcher to see where the relationship between these world superpowers is heading before anyone else. SUBSCRIBE TODAY. | | | | | | | | — A new FutureEd report offers a detailed timeline for when schools should do diagnostic testing, school climate surveys, interim assessments, and year-end tests. — The Schott Foundation for Public Education released its 2020 "Loving Cities Index," which examines systemic racism across education, health, and economic opportunity in America's largest cities. — The Institute for Justice is out with a 50-state guide to help policymakers understand the impact of last week's Supreme Court ruling in the Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue case. | | | — Nicholas Kent is joining the law firm Duane Morris LLP as a senior education policy adviser. He was previously senior vice president of policy and research at Career Education Colleges and Universities. | | | — Florida wants reopening plans from schools: POLITICO Pro — School openings across globe suggest ways to keep coronavirus at bay, despite outbreaks: Science Magazine — Michigan schools expect a booming demand for substitute teachers: Detroit Free Press — Louisiana virus cases surge, with call to cancel athletics: Associated Press | | | | Follow us on Twitter | | | | Follow us | | | | |
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