Mackenzie Wilkes (@macwilkes) 's Twitter Profile
Mackenzie Wilkes

@macwilkes

education reporter @politico + author of morning ed | north carolinian | call me, beep me 📧: [email protected] signal: mwilkes.77 | @eloncomm alum

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A quick thread from today’s Texas Tribune newsletter, The Blast, on how TX congressional candidate Valentina Gomez got onto the basketball court at UT Austin’s Moody Center. Backstory: x.com/ValentinaForUS… & x.com/ValentinaForUS…

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This law professor filed 60 complaints to the Office of Civil Rights with one objective in mind: ending identity-conscious programs in education. In more than half of the cases, schools and colleges have changed their programs or ended them altogether. rb.gy/j5wtc7

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NEWS: President Donald J. Trump announces that the Education Department's $1 trillion student loans portfolio will move to SBA. Oversight of laws protecting students with disabilities will head to HHS.

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The recent RIF at the Department of Education disrupted thousands of pending civil rights investigations. There were no transition memos and case documents may have been lost. 🔗⬇️ w/ Emily Kennard for NOTUS

The recent RIF at the Department of Education disrupted thousands of pending civil rights investigations. There were no transition memos and case documents may have been lost. 🔗⬇️

w/ <a href="/emilyykennard/">Emily Kennard</a> for <a href="/NOTUSreports/">NOTUS</a>
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NEWS — Sen. Cory Booker breaks Strom Thurmond’s 1957 record for the longest speech in Senate history, which was 24 hours and 18 mins. Thurmond was mounting a filibuster against the Civil Rights Act; Booker has been railing against Trump and his agenda.

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McMahon: “The best education is that that is closest to the child, where teachers and parents, local superintendents working together, and local school boards, to develop the curriculum for those students is the best way that it can happen.”

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.The Governing Board just voted (reluctantly) to kill several NAEP exams over the next 10 yrs. Cuts: 1) No Long-Term Trend NAEP at all until 2033. 2) No 4th grade science in 2028 and no 12th grade science in 2032. 3) Writing scrapped altogether. 4) No 12th grade history in 2030 (1/4)

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New: HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told House appropriators this morning that the administration wants to “preserve” Head Start. Kennedy’s written testimony says the administration is seeking to fund the program at FY25 levels. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025/0…

New: HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told House appropriators this morning that the administration wants to “preserve” Head Start. Kennedy’s written testimony says the administration is seeking to fund the program at FY25 levels.

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Breaking news: DOGE is now targeting the Government Accountability Office, a congressional agency. GAO is fighting back: "We are not subject to DOGE or executive orders." NOTUS got the email detailing what's happening, sent just an hour ago. notus.org/congress/doge-…

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ICYMI: A tax credit in the ‘big beautiful bill’ could transform school choice. Lawmakers, advocates are maneuvering to extract an even bigger get out of the Senate. They want: •$10B over 10 years compared to House’s $5B over 4 •No income limits subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025/0…