Last week, McMahon stopped in Utah for remarks on K-12 education, where she touted that “at the direction of President Trump, we have taken billions away from [diversity, equity and inclusion] classroom initiatives and bureaucrat-centric projects.” In Las Vegas, with Nevada GOP Gov. Joe Lombardo, she championed post-high school paths that don’t involve a four-year college degree and Republicans’ expansion of the Pell Grant to short-term workforce training programs. [...] And in Arizona, she touted Workforce Pell, funding for historically Black colleges and universities, community colleges and the GOP’s overhaul of federal student aid programs.

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— Public colleges are passing the $50,000-a-year mark. For locals: The New York Times

— More colleges are helping pay back loans for grads with modest incomes: The Washington Post

— NYC’s AI ban confusion: what’s allowed and what’s banned in city schools: Chalkbeat New York [...] McMahon is headed to Tennessee this week to give her fourth and final speech in the series, an agency spokesperson said. Fox News reports that McMahon’s Tennessee speech will be focused on “rebuilding public trust, addressing administrative oversight and reviving academic standards in higher education.”

The slate of remarks by the education secretary, who leads an agency President Donald Trump has called to be eliminated, comes just ahead of the November elections.