About a fifth of the agency’s remaining staff was affected, including employees working on special education, funding for low-income students and civil rights enforcement.

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The David and Nicole Tepper Foundation has donated $5 million to the University of South Carolina to enhance its scholarship fund and strengthen the sport management program, university officials announced on Tuesday.

Amid debates about how to help families see past high sticker prices, 22 institutions are adopting a resource to instantly estimate costs based just on household income. This week, 22 selective, private colleges launched a new net cost estimator that has a key difference from the standard net price calculators required by federal law.

Sian Leah Beilock has told faculty members she won’t sign the document as written. Meanwhile, the White House’s broader proposal has shifted discussion about the deal.