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Republicans in Wisconsin want answers and are vowing to retaliate after the Universities of Wisconsin system Board of Regents fired President Jay Rothman on Tuesday night with no public explanation. Accusing the regents of blatant partisanship, Republicans in the State Legislature are planning to hold a hearing on the firing and to vote against 10 board appointees who have been nominated and are already serving on the board but haven’t been confirmed. The Senate’s GOP-controlled Committee on Universities and Technical Colleges, which is holding the hearing, can’t stop the nominations on its own, but the mounting threats may set up…

Algorithms. Beauty filters. Endless scrolling. The case over “social media addiction” against Meta and Google in a California courtroom ultimately came down to these elements, legal experts say, and what a jury found was negligence on social media companies’ part when designing apps where tweens and teens would come to spend roughly one-fifth of their day. Joseph McNally, former federal prosecutor and director of Emerging Torts and Litigation at McNicholas & McNicholas in California, says jurors agreed with the novel legal argument that Meta and Google were negligent in their design of Instagram and YouTube, respectively, contributing to the mental…

Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter America’s school districts are operating in a very different reality than they were even a decade ago. Student demographics are shifting so that in just six years, districts have lost nearly 2 million students nationwide. Meanwhile, charter schools gained about half a million, private schools added thousands more, and homeschooling rates remain higher than pre-pandemic levels. These shifts look different depending on where you live, but almost no district is immune. The result: Traditional district schools are serving a shrinking share of a shrinking market. …

Listen to the article 5 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: The Universities of Wisconsin board of regents on Tuesday unanimously voted to fire President Jay Rothman after he declined to resign quietly. Board President Amy Bogost said during Tuesday’s meeting that the decision to terminate Rothman stemmed from the results of his annual performance review, which were shared with him.  However, Rothman last month told Bogost that he had declined a request from the board to resign because he was not given an explanation for their decision, according to the…

Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Southern Oregon University will receive a $15 million lifeline from the state after Gov. Tina Kotek on Tuesday signed into law an emergency funding provision for the beleaguered public institution.  The provision, attached to a larger state budget bill, appropriates the money to Oregon’s Higher Education Coordinating Commission through the two-year fiscal period ending in June 2027.  SOU and the commission must file a report with the Legislature detailing the university’s operating plans through June 2027, according to a bill…

Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Afterschool providers’ concerns about their programs’ sustainability rose in 2025 — reaching pandemic-era levels, according to survey results released April 2 by Afterschool Alliance.  For instance, 88% of afterschool providers reported they were worried about long-term funding and the future of their programs, compared to 87% who said the same in 2020. A majority of providers — 77% — also said they’re concerned about losing funds in 2025, versus 78% in 2020. Over half of providers reported fears that they’d…

Dozens more colleges will get a delay before they must submit extensive data on their applicants and admitted students broken down by race and sex to the U.S. Department of Education, per a federal court order handed down Tuesday.  U.S. District Judge F. Dennis Saylor has extended the deadline until April 14 for a handful of private colleges and the institutional members of several higher education associations that are seeking to join a legal challenge against the data collection. Seventeen Democratic attorneys general brought the case and recently won a court order temporarily blocking the Education Department from collecting the…

As states look for ways to strengthen college and career pathways, dual enrollment—allowing high school students to earn college credit—has emerged as a key strategy. Yet researchers at the Community College Research Center argue these programs don’t always deliver on that promise. In many cases, dual enrollment functions as a “program of privilege” for students already on a college track, according to researchers at the center. Students may also end up taking what CCRC researchers call “random acts of dual enrollment,” or courses that aren’t connected to a clear academic or career pathway, and they often lack access to the…

Rick Hess, Education Week With the rollout of the Federal Scholarship Tax Credit program, transparency is vital.

Recent data from Tufts University projects that AI-driven job loss over the next few years could amount to “a wipeout equivalent to the economy of Belgium.” Photo illustration by Justin Morrison/Inside Higher Ed | GaudiLab/iStock/Getty Images | alvarez and cofotoisme/E+/Getty Images In the three-plus years since large language models went mainstream, college students have been inundated with the tech sector’s gloomy predictions that artificial intelligence is coming for their jobs. And so far in 2026, those predictions have only become more extreme. In February, Microsoft’s AI chief declared that all white-collar work would be automated within 18 months. Soon after,…