Dan Zibel

Thank you @katiephang.bsky.social for highlighting our lawsuit to stop the Administration's blatantly illegal attempt to chill the important calling of public service.

The SHAPE AI Initiative kicked off this week with a convening of the advisory committee.

We will work hard to ensure that student protections are top of mind as more colleges partner with AI companies.

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Trump Administration Backs Off Effort to Collect Data on Food Stamp Recipients In response to a federal lawsuit, the Agriculture Department said it would refrain, for now, from demanding that states turn over the personal information of people receiving assistance.

ICYMI: The Trump Admin paused their demand for the personal data of millions of SNAP recipients following a lawsuit we filed w/ @studentdefense.bsky.social, @nclej.bsky.social, and @epic.org on behalf of students + individuals receiving SNAP, @mazonusa.bsky.social‬, and @epic.org protdem.org/4krIVfi

'Not their business': Trump mulls major changes to federal student loan office President Donald Trump on Thursday said he has discussed shifting the Federal Student Aid office to an agency outside the Education Department.

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Survey shows voters want to preserve Ed Department funding A clear majority of voters supports preserving or increasing funding for the Department of Education, according to a new poll from Morning Consult.

41% of more than 2,200 registered voters said the US Dept of Ed should receive *more* funding, including 18% of GOP voters who want funding to remain the same & 31% who would increase.

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Glad to have had the change to connect with @katiephang.bsky.social @katiephangshow.bsky.social to talk about DOGE's access to sensitive student data at the U.S. Department of Education and our lawsuit with @publiccitizen.bsky.social

"The Department of Education collects student data with the promise to keep it safe." Daniel Zibel from Student Defense. "We don't know what [DOGE is] doing with that information."

One of the DOGE employees with access to sensitive data has not yet completed required ethics and information security trainings, DOGE team member Adam Ramada admitted in the filing.

DOGE Worker at Education Department Has Ethics, IT Training Gap Six people are carrying out the work of Elon Musk’s government cost-cutting group at the US Department of Education, though one of them hasn’t completed ethics or information security training, accord...

NEW: One of the 6 people from "DOGE" at Ed "has not yet completed ethics or information security trainings." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

And what about federal student aid dollars (student loans/grants) - which are paid by the government to the school? This should have heads (students and colleges) spinning.

Confusing at best. What. A. Mess.

Freshmen enrollment up this fall; data error led to miscount Freshmen enrollment did not decline this fall, as previously reported in the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center’s annual enrollment report in October.

Freshman enrollment didn't decrease this year after all, the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center said tonight.

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Biden scraps debt relief plans, other regs The Education Department also withdrew its controversial rule regarding the participation of transgender student athletes in sports that align with their gender identity.

Several high-profile and controversial Biden regs died today. Here’s our recap:

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a yellow and blue flag with the letter m on it is flying in the wind . ALT: a yellow and blue flag with the letter m on it is flying in the wind .

#goblue