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Harvard Proves the Only Choice Is to Fight
From K-12 school districts to the Ivy League, educators are learning that capitulating won’t bring a reprieve.
And they did.
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School districts across the US are now facing the same decision as institutions of higher learning: allow the government to censor their instruction or stand up for themselves and lose federal funding. As Harvard and Columbia demonstrated by taking opposite approaches, there is really only one choice: fight.
That’s because the Trump administration has demonstrated it’s not negotiating in good faith. Each time an educational institution engages with the White House, the White House shifts the goal posts — changing its justifications and changing its list of demands.