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NWLC Files Lawsuit Against Betsy DeVos, Trump Administration's Sexual Harassment Rules
On June 10, the National Women's Law Center (NWLC), along with co-counsel Morrison & Foerster LLP and Diane Rosenfeld of Harvard Law School in her individual capacity, filed a lawsuit against Betsy DeVos and the Trump Administration's Department of Education, challenging new Title IX rules. The rules, released last month, are a major blow to K-12 and college students seeking to learn in safe school environments. They reduce schools' obligations to respond to sex-based harassment while turning the fewer investigations schools will conduct into mini-trials that are stacked against those who complain of sexual harassment. Read more >>

New Requirements, More Costs
Greta Anderson, Inside Higher ED
Community colleges are allocating precious time, energy and resources to meet new federal standards for handling campus sexual assault and harassment. Lawyers and associations representing the colleges say the new requirements are impractical and unwarranted at the mostly commuter campuses and come at a time when the institutions can least afford it. Read more >>

Ed Department's Emergency Rule on CARES Aid Restricts Undocumented Students
Jeremy Bauer-Wolf, Education Dive
After several weeks of uncertainty, the U.S. Department of Education has determined that unauthorized and international students can't get federal coronavirus relief, according to an emergency regulation the agency issued Thursday. Read more >>

President Trump Vetoed Congress's Bipartisan Vote to Repeal Department of Education's 2019 Regulations
Student Loan Borrowers Assistance
On March 11, 2020, Congress passed a bipartisan resolution to preserve student loan borrower protections put in place in 2016 (often called the "borrower defense rule or rules") and to overturn new rules from the current U.S. Department of Education ("the Department") that would strip away those protections and make it nearly impossible for borrowers harmed by school misconduct to get relief. But, on May 29, President Trump vetoed Congress's bipartisan resolution. Unfortunately this means that the harmful new rules preventing student borrowers from getting relief will likely go into effect as scheduled on July 1, 2020. Read more >>
Congress news
Last Chance for Federal Help  
Kery Murakami, Insider Higher ED 
Ever since the coronavirus shuttered campuses, creating costs, among other things, for refunding room and board for empty residence halls and uneaten meals, colleges and universities have been crying for federal help. Read more >>

Budget Chairs: Lift July Deadline; Senate Wants Federal Help 
Education Week 
Key Republican lawmakers on Thursday backed legislation that would waive a requirement that the Legislature pass the next state budget in less than three weeks, citing uncertainty over a major shortfall caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Read more >>

Hoyer Details Upcoming House Floor Schedule 
Lindsey McPherson, Roll Call 
Infrastructure week is coming to the House at the end of the month as Democrats plan to bring their highway reauthorization bill to the floor June 30.  House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer, speaking during a Baker Hostetler webinar Thursday, offered some details about the floor schedule for late June and July, including plans to spend three days debating an infrastructure package. Read more >> 
Other news
The End of Police in Schools 
Lauren Camera, U.S. News and World Report 
Denver Public Schools became the third school district in two weeks to sever a million-dollar contract with its city's police department to remove officers from schools--a move that at least a dozen other school districts are considering following the death of George Floyd in police custody and the subsequent chorus of ongoing country-wide protests over police violence against black people. "This topic is not new or knee jerk," said Jennifer Bacon, vice president of Denver's Board of Education. "People have been calling for it to end for a long time." Read more >>