Naaz Modan

A few months of reporting, heartbreaking phone calls with sexual assault survivors, discussions with @usedgov, and hundreds of court documents later, K-12 Dive published its analysis today of how schools have passed the buck on Title IX responsibilities. k12dive.com/news/title-ix-…

"K-12 Dive filed another request for records in January 2026 and is awaiting a response on their release. DHS has also not responded to multiple requests for comment." Great effort from @NaazModan to give some numbers to the story. k12dive.com/news/ice-activ…

Did you know that prior to January, 2025, schools and churches were on a list of "sensitive areas" off-limits for immigration enforcement? DHS changed the policy, which is why we see controversial actions today. @NaazModan has been tracking the activities on school grounds:

In response to its lack of assault/harassment cases, USED said that it "has restored commonsense safeguards against sexual violence by returning sex-based separation in intimate facilities.” “OCR is and will continue to safeguard the dignity and safety of our nation’s students."

In the meantime, it did expedite Title IX investigations and proposed resolution agreements to curb transgender students’ access to school facilities and athletic teams aligning with their gender identity.

K-12 Dive analyzed all the OCR cases resolved in 2025 in K-12 available on the USED's database. Here's one finding: no settled resolved sexual assault/harassment cases, despite President Trump's promise to protecting women/girls’ rights in education. k12dive.com/news/trumps-oc…

Former NCES employees indeed told K-12 Dive that NAEP will likely be left as a skeleton, testing only what's required and foregoing testing on other important subject. One employee said "new administration wants to do the bare minimum." k12dive.com/news/Education…

After leaving @EdNCES with almost no staff, says NAEP "is a critical tool" that @Linda_McMahon is "committed to providing states with." Reading and math will continue as planned for 2026, but USED is silent on civics and U.S. history that was also scheduled for 2026.

@GeoffRBennett @NewsHour Congrats Geoff! Been following your work since that small TWC office and love to see your updates

I'm excited to step into the role of co-managing editor at PBS @NewsHour . It's a privilege to help shape the program's coverage alongside an extraordinary team dedicated to in-depth journalism and powerful storytelling. variety.com/2025/tv/news/g…

USED is telling Maine and its schools to define “females” and “males” by the production of “eggs” and “sperm” — and telling MDOE to publicize that on its website — or lose fed funding. It would also require the state to apologize to its cisgender students. k12dive.com/news/ocr-to-ma…

Trump ordered Secretary of Education Linda McMahon to “take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Department of Education,” marking the boldest push from the president to shut down the agency since its establishment over four decades ago. k12dive.com/news/trump-iss…

Combined, the offices had over 6,000 investigations open as of January. “The Department of Education has turned its back on civil rights in schools,” said Catherine Lhamon, who led OCR under the Biden administration.

7 offices of the ED’s OCR have closed and hundreds of staff have been let go, former employees have confirmed. The offices oversaw half of the nation’s states, impacting nearly 60,000 public schools and over 30 million K-12 students. k12dive.com/news/half-of-o…

The DNC is just Coachella for Poli-Sci majors

The biggest Title IX regs nightmare you haven’t read about yet: k12dive.com/news/organizat…

Lhamon attributes some increases to current events, like the Supreme Court admissions case and Title VI cases after Oct. 7. Some of these numbers are expected to be released as part of OCR's annual report, which is usually released around late spring or summer.

New: 2023 federal OCR complaints outpaced the 2022 record high. Last fiscal year, 12,709 out of of 19,201 complaints were related to K-12. And 2024's complaints show no signs of slowing down. k12dive.com/news/discrimin…

Will the U.S. Supreme Court weigh in on another high-profile education case this term? That is seeming more likely. Justices have deliberated multiple times in the past month whether to accept a closely watched case on K-12 admissions policies. k12dive.com/news/2023-supr…

The massacre at Robb Elementary could have been stopped sooner, were it not for the "cascading failures" of law enforcement — including its lack of coordination with the school, according to a U.S. Department of Justice report released today. k12dive.com/news/doj-repor…

A few months of reporting, heartbreaking phone calls with sexual assault survivors, discussions with @usedgov, and hundreds of court documents later, K-12 Dive published its analysis today of how schools have passed the buck on Title IX responsibilities. k12dive.com/news/title-ix-…