{"id":20646,"date":"2026-01-30T16:26:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T23:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/?p=20646"},"modified":"2026-01-30T16:26:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T23:26:54","slug":"u-s-department-of-education-newsletter-january-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/2026\/01\/30\/u-s-department-of-education-newsletter-january-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Department of Education Newsletter &#8211; January 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Featured in this edition:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Message from the Secretary<\/li>\n<li>Wins of the Month<\/li>\n<li>January Action Timeline<\/li>\n<li>Celebrating School Choice Week<\/li>\n<li>Celebrating the Historic First Year of the Trump Administration<\/li>\n<li>News from the States<\/li>\n<li>School Choice Lets Parents Decide How Much AI Belongs in Education<\/li>\n<li>Secretary McMahon Honors Louisiana Custodian Donella Wagner as 2026 RISE Award Honoree<\/li>\n<li>The Presidential 1776 Award to Celebrate America\u2019s Semiquincentennial<\/li>\n<li>Defending Women and Empowering Parents: Department Sets Tone for 2026<\/li>\n<li>The Four Stages of AI Integration in Education<\/li>\n<li>Building the Golden Age Workforce: Connecting Talent to Opportunity Challenge<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/m1.info.ed.gov\/rest\/head\/mirrorPage\/@qlnNoCP-e0liE-syHCz1sk28OfKwaJq5rCd20DPpaGS9XMNfVejlZjGf_WBeRwDhNCZrRng0QYJc7C4r4sOOa_lq2fSO3AmALRmZuRFrhGXejqfB.html\"><strong>[Read More]<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Featured in this edition: Message from the Secretary Wins of the Month January Action Timeline Celebrating School Choice Week Celebrating the Historic First Year of the Trump Administration News from the States School Choice Lets Parents Decide How Much AI Belongs in Education Secretary McMahon Honors Louisiana Custodian Donella Wagner as 2026 RISE Award Honoree [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,266],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-of-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20647,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20646\/revisions\/20647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}