Giving Compass' Take:

· Jessica Campisi at Education Dive provides a detailed list of changes the Trump administration has made to education in comparison to the Obama administration. 

· How have these changes influenced the way students learn and develop? What are some potential changes to come? 

· Find out how the Trump administration has influenced sex education. 

In October 2015, then-presidential candidate Donald Trump said if he was elected president, he would consider eliminating the U.S. Department of Education. While that hasn’t happened since he took office in January 2017, his administration has gutted or changed much of the Obama-era policies and guidelines that previously defined the K-12 sphere, and more changes seem to be on the way.

Here's a running list of pieces of Obama-era K-12 education policy dismantled under Trump, along with those at risk of being severed next.

What Trump has thrown out:
Sexual misconduct
Trump: As part of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos rescinding the 2011 “Dear Colleague” letter — which outlined federally funded schools’ responsibility in handling K-12 and college campus sexual assault — Trump’s administration issued interim guidance in September 2017 that said colleges could raise the standard of proof in determining whether a sexual misconduct incident took place.

About a year later, DeVos was reportedly preparing new campus sexual misconduct policies that included giving accusers more power, narrowing the definition of sexual harassment, and only holding schools accountable for properly filed formal complaints, The New York Times reported. The Wall Street Journal has since reported that these rules, rather than giving accusers more power, would require schools to allow the accused to cross-examine their accusers.

Read the full article about the changes to education and policy by Jessica Campisi at Education Dive.