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Students at the University of Pittsburgh participated in 2024 election activities.<\/p>\n
Aaron Jackendoff\/SOPA Images\/LightRocket via Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n The Department of Education released guidance Tuesday discouraging colleges from using Federal Work-Study funds to pay students to work on voter registration efforts and other activities it deems political.<\/p>\n The department announced the change to work study provisions in a Dear Colleague letter signed by acting assistant ED secretary Christopher McCaghren.<\/p>\n \u201cJobs involving partisan or nonpartisan voter registration, voter assistance at a polling place or through a voter hotline, or serving as a poll worker\u2014whether this takes place on or off campus\u2014involve political activity because these activities support the process of voting which is a quintessential political activity whereby voters formally support partisan or nonpartisan political candidates by casting ballots,\u201d McCaghren wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n He emphasized in the letter that ED \u201cencourages institutions to employ students in jobs that align with real-world work experience related to a student\u2019s course of study whenever possible.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Education Secretary Linda McMahon echoed that sentiment in a Tuesday social media post, writing that the department is \u201cdone funding political activism on college campuses!\u201d She added, \u201cUnder the Trump Administration, taxpayer dollars will be used to prepare students for the workforce.\u201d<\/p>\n McCaghren\u2019s letter also warned colleges about \u201caiding and abetting voter fraud.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n While institutions are required to make a \u201cgood faith effort to distribute voter registration forms to students,\u201d they should refrain from distributing such materials to students they believe are ineligible to vote in state or federal elections, according to the letter.<\/p>\n The move comes as President Donald Trump has announced plans to overhaul how elections are conducted before the upcoming midterms next year, including barring certain voting machines and mail-in voting, though he does not have the authority to make such changes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Students at the University of Pittsburgh participated in 2024 election activities. Aaron Jackendoff\/SOPA Images\/LightRocket via Getty Images The Department of Education released guidance Tuesday discouraging colleges from using Federal Work-Study funds to pay students to work on voter registration efforts and other activities it deems political. The department announced the change to work study provisions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[8609,393,3578,514],"class_list":{"0":"post-16686","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-education","8":"tag-clamps","9":"tag-student","10":"tag-voting","11":"tag-work"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}