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17 States Challenge Trump Administration's College Admissions Data Transparency Rule in Federal Court
Monday, 4 May, 2026
I never thought I'd be glued to legal headlines like this, but the past few days have been a whirlwind of courtroom drama swirling around Donald Trump. Picture this: it's early 2026, and Trump's pushing hard on higher education transparency, straight out of his August 7, 2025, Presidential Memorandum called "Ensuring Transparency in Higher Education Admissions." That memo directed the U.S. Department of Education to fire up the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, or IPEDS, to track how colleges are complying with the Supreme Court's massive 2023 ruling in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College—you know, the one that slammed the brakes on race-based admissions.Fast forward to March 11, 2026, when a powerhouse coalition of seventeen states, led by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, storms into the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts with Massachusetts v. U.S. Department of Education. They're furious about the new Admissions and Consumer Transparency Supplement, or ACTS, which demands that every four-year selective admissions college spill detailed data on admissions, financial aid, and student outcomes—broken down by race, sex, test scores, GPA, income, and more—for the current year plus six prior ones back to 2019-20. JD Supra reports the states crying foul under the Administrative Procedure Act, saying it exceeds statutory authority since IPEDS data must stay "objective, secular, neutral, and nonideological." They also hit on Paperwork Reduction Act violations for not minimizing burdens, skipping a privacy impact assessment under the E-Government Act, and ditching the National Center for Education Statistics' Technical Review Panel process that's been standard since 2002.Tension peaks on March 13 when the states file an emergency motion for a temporary restraining order. Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV doesn't waste time—he grants partial relief that very day, pushing the original March 18 deadline to March 25, 2026. The order's wording is intriguing: it broadly extends "the deadline to complete the ACTS survey," leaving everyone guessing if it covers just institutions in plaintiff states like California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawai’i, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin—or nationwide. Noncompliance? We're talking fines up to $71,545 per violation and potential boot from Title IV federal funding. Colleges are sweating, monitoring every docket update as the court hints at more relief ahead, possibly vacating ACTS entirely.This ties right into Trump's broader agenda, enforcing that Harvard decision to root out hidden biases in elite schools like Harvard and beyond. As of March 25, institutions got a brief breather, but the fight's far from over—plaintiffs want a full injunction, no data access, no enforcement. It's a high-stakes clash of federal power, states' rights, and college secrets, all unfolding in Boston's federal courthouse.Thanks for tuning in, listeners. Come back next week for more, and this has been a Quiet Please production—for more, check out Quiet Please Dot A I.Some great Deals https://amzn.to/49SJ3QsFor more check out http://www.quietplease.aiThis content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AIThis episode includes AI-generated content.
