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Trump Wants Admissions Data on Grades and Race, but Who Will Collect It?

The Trump administration has fired nearly everyone who worked at the federal statistics agency that would collect the data the government is seeking.

© Rod Lamkey Jr. for The New York Times

The Trump administration fired all seven of the staff members who had worked on the college data set at the Department of Education.
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Trump Escalates a Fight Over How to Measure Merit in American Education

President Trump’s most recent executive order wades into a debate over how elite colleges should weigh grades and test scores versus the obstacles students have overcome.

© Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times

President Trump signed an executive order requiring schools to submit information about the academics of applicants, which was designed to prevent universities from using “racial proxies” in admissions.
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Trump Administration to Release $5.5 Billion in Frozen Schools Funding

The Trump administration had faced growing pressure from within his own party to release the money.

© Whitney Curtis for The New York Times

The Department of Education said that it would begin sending the money to states next week.
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