A Peabody teacher won't return to the classroom after comments about Charlie Kirk. Educators and other workers around the country have been disciplined for posts about the conservative activist since his death this month.

Dr. Joan Brugge's research into breast cancer has slowed way, way down, after Trump froze billions of dollars of grants to Harvard, including hers.

Gov. Maura Healey convened the Statewide Graduation Council after voters last fall eliminated the use of the MCAS as a graduation requirement. The "vision of a graduate" released Wednesday is its first work product.

Froggy “borrowed” my tools of the trade to remind you that @wbur.org =INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM=CORNERSTONE OF DEMOCRACY=DEFENSE WINS CHAMPIONSHIPS. Congress canceled all federal funding of public media. WBUR needs your support. Please give at wbur.org/game-on or call 800-909-WBUR. Thanks! And ribbet.

I’m stepping away temporarily for maternity leave, and looking forward to reconnecting in 2026.

Hundreds of students have left Chelsea public schools this year, as families exit a community — and a state — that’s become a prime target for immigration enforcement.

Telehealth vans parked outside Harvard and Northeastern are connecting college students with counseling support. The effort is especially geared toward Jewish students who have experienced antisemitism, but no student is turned away.

The Kirk followers last night on Boston Common + protesters www.wbur.org/news/2025/09... @wbur.org @stephaniembrown.bsky.social Rachell Sanchez-Smith Jesse Costa

@wbur.org is looking for its next round of fellows and applications are open. I learned so much as a WBUR fellow in 2023. Consider applying! www.wbur.org/inside/newsr...

I got to break down Harvards legal victory over federal funding with @tizianadearing.bsky.social www.wbur.org/news/2025/09...

@harvard.edu wins a round in its legal fight with the Trump admin www.wbur.org/news/2025/09... @wbur.org

What was once a routine journey back to school for the roughly 80,000 international students on Massachusetts campuses now feels laden with risk. www.wbur.org/news/2025/08...

For Boston's fall rental season: A big drop in international students, due to Trump admin visa policies @wbur.org Carrie Jung www.wbur.org/news/2025/08...

“The group, who are all Harvard alumni, wrote that any settlement to end the administration's investigations into antisemitism on campus would signal that "politically driven coercion," rather than legal merit, is a viable way to gain compliance.“ www.wbur.org/news/2025/08...

“Shock and sadness reverberated through the public media system Friday.” www.npr.org/2025/08/01/n...

President Trump says on Truth Social “woke is officially dead at Brown” after settlement reached with Brown University.

Following columbia Brown strikes a deal with the federal government. But for less. www.wbur.org/news/2025/07...

Today's letter of the day is A for Accessibility! GBH has led the way in media accessibility innovation for decades. And Executive Director of Accessibility Donna Danielewski has helped to continue that legacy ever since she stepped through our doors 17 years ago.

I got to be in the courtroom as lawyers for Harvard and the White House returned presented their arguments over the $2.5 billions in funding cuts. Here are some of the more memorable moments. www.wbur.org/npr/nx-s1-54...

The Senate voted to approve a $9 billion rescission package aimed at clawing back money already allocated for public radio and television. The vote is a major step toward winding down nearly six decades of federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Trump admin continues its stunning pursuit of Harvard @wbur.org @emilypv.bsky.social www.wbur.org/news/2025/07...

The bill passed today, 218 to 214, after Republican leaders in the House of Representatives convinced holdouts in their own party to get in line behind the controversial legislation.

During a phone hearing on Friday, Judge Michael Farbiarz of the U.S. District Court for New Jersey said that the government's attempt to continue to detain Khalil was "highly, highly, highly unusual."

“According to the Massachusetts Teachers Association, the average community college professor salary in the state is about $68,000 — almost $30,000 less than the living wage estimate for an adult raising one child.” From our Ed team’s Carrie Jung. www.wbur.org/news/2025/06...

I used to bike past Hanscom regularly and had no idea www.wbur.org/news/2025/06...

A federal judge in Boston ordered the National Institutes of Health to restore billions of federal research dollars terminated in recent months by the Trump administration.

The hearing on whether to indefinitely block President Trump's June 4th proclamation on Harvard's international students is scheduled in federal court in Boston today.

House votes to kill all U.S. funding for NPR, PBS and public media for next two years A major moment for conservative activists; a daunting prospect for public media and those who rely on it. Story from @deirdrekwalsh.bsky.social and me www.npr.org/2025/06/12/g...

A pregnant woman made to sleep on a concrete floor. A woman denied menstrual products and given an extra bottle of water to clean herself up with. These are just some of the conditions women in Burlington MA's ICE field office have been made to endure. www.wbur.org/news/2025/06... @wbur.org

Harvard and the Trump administration have been locked in an escalating standoff. The stakes include billions of federal dollars and the fate of the school's international students. Here's a timeline of the clash:

MIT senior class president veered from her planned speech, with a pro=Palestinian message. She was barred from walking with her class. @wbur.org Carrie Jung www.wbur.org/news/2025/05...

Garber greeted the graduates and "guests from down the street, across the country, and around the world." "Around the world, just as it should be," he added for emphasis, as the audience rose to their feet for another ovation. www.wbur.org/news/2025/05...

As Harvard graduates gathered for commencement, the school’s lawyers faced off with the federal government in court over the fate of the school’s international students. www.wbur.org/news/2025/05...

These signs were plastered around Harvard commencement week… after the Trump administration tried to block international students from attending the university.

Students at the Harvard School of Public Health applaud their professors with plastic hands that say “handwashing is a cornerstone of public health.”

Harvard commencement was joyful and festive … and included reminders of the political turmoil the Trump administration has brought down upon the university. Here are some moments from the day —

The photos of the subjects identified by Tamara Lanier as her great-great-great-grandfather Renty and his daughter Delia will be transferred to the International African American Museum in South Carolina. The settlement marks the end of a 15-year battle between Lanier and Harvard.

Another VT federal judge orders another ICE detainee released -- this time, Kseniia Petrova, the Harvard researcher caught traveling w/ frog embryos www.wbur.org/news/2025/05...

Harvard announced in late April it would end all support for affinity graduations. Some students decided to hold their own events anyway:

So glad I had the opportunity to hear from Harvard students, who squeezed me in between final exams and calling venues and fundraising as they worked to keep affinity graduations alive. www.wbur.org/news/2025/05...

Harvard can no longer enroll international students next year after the department of homeland security revokes its SEVP certification. www.wbur.org/news/2025/05...

A federal judge in Vermont has ordered the immediate release of Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk. Judge William Sessions made his order from the bench, saying he found serious claims of "of both due process and first amendment violations" in her arrest in Somerville in March.

This is the kind of reporter we’ve needed all along. apnews.com/article/whit...

Advocates in Brookline have pushed to save the school district's Office of Educational Equity by raising over $188,000 to fund positions & programming. But whether the school committee will accept the funds is still up in the air. My latest – & last – for @wbur.org: www.wbur.org/news/2025/05...