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Trump Department of Education rolls out latest step to expand school choice nationwide
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FIRST ON FOX – The Trump administration is rolling out what will be the fourth legal pathway for bolstering school choice nationwide as the U.S. Department of Education aims to hand back powers to the states – before ultimately dismantling itself.
The department on Thursday issued what is referred to as a «Dear Colleague Letter to State and Local Education Agencies,» providing additional guidance to help state and local school districts better serve students who attend private schools but who are still eligible for federally funded academic support. The letters aim to explain «more efficient and effective ways to best meet students’ needs.»
Under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), eligible private school students are entitled to Title I-A funded equitable services, which can include one-on-one tutoring, summer school programs or counseling programs.
Since its passage in 1965, private school students and teachers have been eligible to participate in federal education programs sponsored under the law. The department said lawmakers determined that ESEA programs benefit children – as opposed to schools – and if a child is eligible, he or she may receive program services. Though Title I-A funds don’t go to private schools, their students and teachers may still receive services provided or facilitated through the local educational agency (LEA).
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Education Secretary Linda McMahon outside the White House on July 15, 2025. (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The department notes that private school families are federal taxpayers and their students, therefore, are eligible recipients of services similar to their public school peers using federal funding. The letters also point out that private school students generate a proportion of the Title I-A federal funding that local education agencies receive. The Department of Education said those agencies are encouraged to work with private school officials to identify ways to best support eligible students.
«It has been a banner year for school choice – from President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill federal school choice tax credit to the Department’s guidance to states on how to expand choice under existing law, the Trump Administration is using all available tools to expand school options for students and parents,» Department of Education deputy press secretary Ellen Keast said in a statement to Fox News Digital. «President Trump and Secretary McMahon are working to ensure every child has access to an excellent education that best fits their unique learning needs.»
«Federal taxpayer dollars should support the best education outcomes for students regardless of where they attend school,» Hayley Sanon, acting assistant secretary for the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, said in a statement. «The Trump Administration is committed to expanding education choice and ensuring parents can choose an education option that is best for their child.»
«Improving how equitable services are provided means students in private school can have access to services and supports that best meet their unique learning needs,» Sanon added.
Thursday’s letters are considered the fourth piece of guidance the Department of Education has issued on expanding education choice options under ESEA.
President Donald Trump campaigned on dismantling the Education Department. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
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In late March, the Department of Education issued guidance encouraging states to use federal Title I funds to expand school choice options for families. That letter highlighted ways states and local districts can reserve funds for direct student services such as advanced coursework, tutoring, dual enrollment and career training, giving parents more say in their children’s education.
Department officials said the move was part of a broader effort by the Trump administration to increase flexibility and support for families seeking personalized learning opportunities.
Sanon sent another letter in May urging states to strengthen how they identify and respond to unsafe schools, highlighting provisions in federal law that require students in persistently dangerous schools – or those who are victims of violent crimes at school – to be offered safer alternatives. The department noted that very few schools are formally designated as unsafe despite widespread reports of violent incidents, and Sanon urged states to adopt stronger definitions, improve data collection, and expand school choice options, including transfers and charter schools. The guidance was billed as part of the Trump administration’s broader effort to ensure parents can choose safe learning environments for their children.
The Department of Education is handing powers back to state and local school districts. (iStock)
In June, the Department of Education also encouraged states and districts to expand school choice options for families in schools identified as low-performing under federal law. The guidance outlines how local education agencies can use federal Title I funds to support improvement plans that include parent-selected options such as tutoring, dual enrollment or career training – and even allow transfers from chronically struggling schools. Again, the Trump administration billed the initiative as part of a broader effort to give parents more meaningful input in their children’s education and ensure access to higher-quality learning opportunities.
The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for Education Secretary Linda McMahon to fire hundreds of employees last month, a move that advances President Donald Trump’s plans to dismantle the department. As Trump campaigned on shutting the department down and outsourcing some of its responsibilities to other agencies, McMahon has said its «final mission» is to hand back educational powers to the states.
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Trump celebrated last month’s ruling on social media, writing: «The Federal Government has been running our Education System into the ground, but we are going to turn it all around by giving the Power back to the PEOPLE.»
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Former Democratic vice presidential candidate and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz criticized the media for reporting on rifts within the Democratic Party amidst what he called a «fascist» takeover of the country by President Donald Trump.
Walz gave a fiery speech on Monday in front of Democrats gathered for the party’s summer strategy meetings in Minneapolis, where Democratic leadership are attempting to unify a party riddled with internal division.
During the speech, Walz, a progressive who served as former Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate in 2024, opined about his and Harris’ 2024 election loss, saying, «We know [Harris] was the most qualified and would have been a fantastic president.»
«We wouldn’t wake up every day to a bunch of s*** on TV and a bunch of nonsense,» he asserted. «We would wake up to an adult with compassion and dignity and vision and leadership doing the work. Not a man child crying about whatever’s wrong with him.»
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Gov. Tim Walz, then vice presidential nominee, delivers remarks at the AFSCME’s 46th International Convention in Los Angeles on Aug. 13, 2024. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
He doubled down on some of the Democratic Party’s more controversial platforms, saying, «We’re not shying away from diversity as a strength and equity as a goal and inclusion being the air we breathe. That’s what we should be doing.»
Though doubling down on DEI, Walz criticized the media for reporting on Democratic infighting. He urged Democrats, «Don’t take the bait.»
«It boggles my d*** mind that in the midst of a military takeover of our cities and the attempt to go into others, their flaunting of the rule of law, the cruelness and the unconstitutional nature of the way they’re attacking our neighbors, that the press finds the need to talk about, ‘Oh, there’s a division in the Democratic Party,’» he railed, adding, «There’s a division in my d*** house and we’re still married, and things are good. That’s life!»
«We can have our internal decision-making, our internal healthy debates. But – I refuse to believe – we do not have the luxury to fight amongst ourselves while that thing sits in the White House,» said Walz as the crowd broke into cheers.
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Democratic National Committee chair Ken Martin addresses party members at the DNC’s summer meeting, on Aug. 25, 2025, in Minneapolis. (Paul Steinhauser – Fox News )
He asserted that Democrats «are strong because we’re held accountable,» while he lamented it is easy to be a Republican.
«Think of how easy it would be to be a d*** Republican. Oh, what should I wear today? This stupid fricking red hat? What should I say today? I don’t know, just make sure it’s cruel. Who do we listen to? That guy? Oh, the felon in the White House? Yeah, I listen to him, and that will be fine,» he said.
He went on to accuse Trump of unleashing fascist policies on the U.S., saying, «I always get in trouble for it, I’ll continue to say it, I don’t think we do any favors when we don’t name it, these are fascist policies … That is what they are.»
Commenting on Trump signing an executive order to crack down on the burning of the American flag, he accused the president of being concerned about flags with his face on them.
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Former Vice President Kamala Harris and then Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz walk out on stage together during a campaign event on Aug. 6, 2024, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
«Now he’s talking about burning flags. He’s going to have flag burning or whatever, because he knows there’s a hell of a lot of flags with his picture on it that are going to get burned. There’s a whole lot of that kind of crap that people are sick of,» he said.
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Concluding his remarks, Walz urged Democrats to start «running to a better future.»
«A future that includes everyone, a future where our children are valued and lifted up, a future where immigrants are celebrated just like our grandparents and parents were, a future where we ask people to pay their fair share while we make life a little bit easier for others, and we find joy in the things that you find personally joyful and I don’t give a d*** what your neighbor thinks about those things,» he said. «Those are the things that we are here for.»
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El cofundador del cartel de Sinaloa se declaró culpable en EE.UU. y podría ir a prisión de por vida
El mexicano Ismael “Mayo” Zambada, cofundador del poderoso cartel de Sinaloa en los años 80, se declaró este lunes culpable de narcotráfico ante un tribunal de Nueva York.
Con esta decisión, evitó ser procesado en un juicio público, pero perdió su derecho a revocar la sentencia que le impondrá el juez encargado Brian Cogan.
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El magistrado advirtió que cada uno de los 17 delitos de los que se declaró culpable conllevan pena de cadena perpetua. La sentencia se conocerá el 13 de enero próximo.
Su antiguo socio, Joaquín “Chapo” Guzmán, cumple una pena de cadena perpetua en Estados Unidos. De hecho, Zambada acusó a Joaquín Guzmán López, uno de los hijos del capo narco, de haberle tendido una trampa el 25 de julio de 2024 cuando fue detenido en suelo estadounidense.
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Ante el tribunal, Zambada admitió los hechos. “Reconozco el enorme daño que las drogas ilegales le han causado a personas en Estados Unidos y México”, dijo a través de un intérprete. “Me disculpo por todo eso y asumo la responsabilidad de mis actos”, añadió.
Zambada, que dijo tener 75 años y no 77 como se había informado hasta ahora, fue uno de los “más prolíficos y poderosos narcotraficantes del mundo”, según la justicia estadounidense
“Culpable”, dijo en español con voz casi inaudible, de los cargos de empresa criminal continuada entre 1989 y enero de 2024, y conspiración en grupo criminal para lavar de dinero, perpetrar asesinatos, secuestros y tráfico de drogas entre el 1 de enero de 2000 y el 11 de abril de 2012.
Zambada pidió perdón a “quienes han sufrido” por sus acciones y reconoció que “la organización que dirigía promovió la corrupción” en México, “pagando sobornos a policías, comandantes militares y a políticos”. También debe pagar una multa de 15.000 millones de dólares. Una vieja fotografía de Ismael «Mayo» Zambada (Foto: Procuración de México/vía Reuters)
El juez instructor, Brian Cogan, fijó para el 13 de enero de 2026 el anuncio su sentencia, aunque dejó claro desde ya que el primer cargo es pasible de cadena perpetua.
Zambada dijo que es consciente de que con el acuerdo de culpabilidad renuncia a sus derechos constitucionales de ir a juicio y de apelar una posible sentencia desfavorable.
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En su declaración ante la justicia, admitió haber enviado “1500 toneladas” de cocaína a Estados Unidos y dijo que nunca había consumido drogas. Además, reconoció que sus acciones “constituyen graves violaciones de las leyes antidroga de los Estados Unidos” y aceptó “toda la responsabilidad” por el mal que hizo.
La fiscalía había anunciado a principios de agosto que renunciaba a pedir la pena de muerte en su caso, pese a que Zambada no estaba amparado por un acuerdo de extradición con México, que excluye la pena capital. Su abogado, Frank Pérez, aseguró que el pacto con la fiscalía “no es un acuerdo de cooperación”.
“Puedo afirmar categóricamente que no existe ningún acuerdo por el que esté cooperando con el Gobierno de los Estados Unidos ni con ningún otro gobierno”, dijo en una declaración tras la audiencia.
“Mi cliente (…) hace un pedido a la población de Sinaloa para que mantenga la calma, actúe con moderación y evite la violencia”, ante la guerra desatada entre su clan y los herederos del Chapo que causó más de un millar de muertos.
“El derramamiento de sangre no sirve para nada, solo profundiza las heridas y prolonga el sufrimiento. Insta a su comunidad a mirar hacia la paz y la estabilidad para el futuro del estado”, señaló.
El Chapo fue condenado a cadena perpetua en Estados Unidos tras un mediático juicio en 2018.
Pese a que sus jefes históricos están en la cárcel en Estados Unidos, el cartel de Sinaloa, considerado como la mayor organización de narcotráfico del mundo, sigue operando a través de nuevas generaciones y redes logísticas asentadas en ambos lados de la frontera.
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