New York City faces the prospect of cutbacks in its magnet schools as the Trump administration withholds $36 million in federal support. Federal authorities have declared that the city’s transgender-inclusive policies on school facilities and sports violate sex-based discrimination laws, raising alarm among local educators.

Northwestern University President Michael Schill will step down after a short but eventful three-year term. His presidency was marked by a freeze of hundreds of millions of federal dollars under the Trump administration and pointed criticism from House Republicans.

A federal investigation into NC State University’s Poe Hall, linked to potentially hundreds of cancer cases, has been halted due to funding cuts, the chancellor announced.