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In this week's edition: A federal agency funding museums and libraries faces a legal battle seeking to shutter it ([link removed]) . The Education Department misses a key deadline to deliver its annual statistical report ([link removed]) . Pathways to climate careers have diminished for the class of 2025 ([link removed]) .
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[Students at Hamlin Elementary are silhouetted against the screen of a traveling planetarium. Federal support has allowed the South Dakota Discovery Center to update the exhibit to give the impression of flying through space. Credit: Anya Kamenetz for The Hechinger Report]


** A museum takes students on flights to the stars. Future trips are in question

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The Institute of Museum and Library Services was established in 1996, combining previously separate programs. The small agency became the largest source of federal funding for museums and libraries, last year awarding $266.7 million in program grants, research and policy development across all 50 states. IMLS awarded the South Dakota Discovery Center about $45,000 in 2023 to upgrade this traveling planetarium.

But students around the state may be waiting a long time for the next upgrade.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order in mid-March calling for the agency to be “eliminated to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law.” Mass firings followed.

On May 1, the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., issued a temporary restraining order to block the agency’s dismantling, followed on May 6 by a second federal judge finding the dismantling of this and two other agencies unconstitutional. On May 20, the American Library Association reported that employees are returning to work and some grants have been restored.

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** Education Department misses key deadline for delivering statistics report

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Congress mandates annual ‘Condition of Education’ digest by June 1.
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** So much for saving the planet. Climate careers, and many others, evaporate for class of 2025

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The Trump administration is disrupting career paths for new graduates hoping to work in climate and sustainability, international aid, public service and the sciences.
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Episode 8 of season 4 of College Uncovered, a podcast from The Hechinger Report and GBH News, is out now.

College Uncovered: Apprentices of the World, Unite! ([link removed])

While apprenticeship and internship are preeminent among alternative pathways to good jobs, there aren’t enough of them to meet demand.

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Trump cuts could expose student data to cyber threats ([link removed])

Funding is drying up for a service that alerts schools to cybercrimes and offers fixes

Five-decade study: Black girls build on preschool success, while Black boys struggle in some measures ([link removed])

Research into programs that might bridge the gap is on the chopping block

Tracking Trump: His actions to dismantle the Education Department, and more ([link removed])

The president is working to eliminate the Education Department and fighting ‘woke’ ideology in schools. A week-by-week look at what he’s done

El College Board cancela programa de premios para estudiantes negros y latinos de alto rendimiento ([link removed])

La medida podría desviar miles de dólares en becas a estudiantes blancos

OPINION: Educators have the tools but not the training or ethical framework to use AI wisely. And that’s a problem ([link removed])

Before we let AI teach our children, we must build the scaffolding for responsible AI use among professionals
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