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OpenAI partners with six Indian education institutions, including IIT Delhi, IIM Ahmedabad, and AIIMS New Delhi, to provide ChatGPT Edu access to 100K students (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/18/openai-pushes…

OpenAI pushes into higher education as India seeks to scale AI skills | TechCrunch
OpenAI says its India education partnerships aim to reach more than 100,000 students, faculty and staff over the next year.

The Trump administration announced on Tuesday an aggressive plan to continue dismantling the Education Department,
ending the agency’s broad role in supporting academics at elementary and high schools and in expanding access to college.
Those responsibilities, which had been overseen by the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education and the Office of Postsecondary Education,
will instead be largely taken over by the Labor Department.
Additional changes include movin…

Trump Administration Announces Steps to Dismantle Education Department
Responsibilities for K-12 and college programs, among others, will be moved to other federal agencies.

White House Splinters Education Department, Sending K-12 Programs to Labor – The 74
https://www.the74million.org/article/white-house-splinters-education-department-sending-k-12-programs-to-labor/

Educate To Self-Regulate
A podcast for educational leaders, teachers and students...
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Weird devices running Linux.

Judge Leon Educates Pete Hegseth (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/judge-leon-educates-pete-hegseth-df8a66a5
http://www.memeorandum.com/260217/p14#a260217p14

To keep myself from posting an expletive-laden rant, I'll just point out that Ford's lack of education is showing. Anyone who's been to university knows the actual pejorative is _underwater_ basket-weaving.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/doug-ford-osa…

Ford tells students to not pick 'basket-weaving courses' in wake of OSAP cuts | CBC News
Premier Doug Ford had choice words for students expressing concerns over cuts to OSAP grants Tuesday, telling them to "not pick basket-weaving courses" and to invest in education that gives students in-demand jobs.

The launch of the Dutch Time & Frequency network for #Research & #Education ⏱️
Launched at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam last month, the service by @… delivers highl…

Newly sworn-in Virginia Governor #Abigail #Spanberger signed
10 executive orders in her first official act at the Virginia State Capitol.
Three of the orders target
✅reducing cost-of-living expenses for Virginia families,
✅bringing down healthcare costs
✅and making it easier to build more…

Money, Education, Immigration: Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger just signed 10 executive orders
Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger signed 10 executive orders on her first day, targeting cost of living, healthcare, housing and education issues.

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