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I'm Tiffany Hanson. Filling in for Brian today, he will be back on Monday.

Coming up on today's show, we'll hear from WNYC and Gothamist reporter John Campbell, who's talking, who will talk with us about what's holding up the state budget.

It's now almost three weeks late. It does look like lawmakers

came to a tentative deal over changes to the state's criminal discovery laws, which was a big

sticking point. We'll talk about those discovery laws and the changes that some folks are looking

for in Albany. Plus, we'll hear about what else they need to agree on to get the budget done.

Plus, later in the show, our Centennial series, 100 Years of 100 Things, continues with the history of public education, at least since the 1920s.

We'll talk about how schools were organized, what the point of public schooling was and is, and the major moments

from this past century. Think about desegregation, Title IX, no child left behind, and, of

course, big educational issues of today as well, like school choice, DEI, and more. We'll wrap up

the show with a bit of citizen science on the mushrooms you might spot throughout the city's fungal ecosystem.

But first, a look at how Ivy League schools like Harvard and Columbia are or are not standing up to the Trump administration's calls to either get in line with the president's agenda or lose federal funding.

So far, it's not just Columbia and Harvard that have received ultimatums from the president.

According to the White House, more than a billion dollars in federal funding meant for Cornell University has been frozen.

About 790 million for Northwestern University.

Officials say they're looking into alleged, quote,

civil rights violations at those schools. We'll talk about where things stand with Columbia,

Harvard, and the other schools, and we're going to talk about the administration's efforts to, more broadly, to reshape higher education in this country with us to talk about all of that is Rick Selzer,

a senior writer at the Chronicle for Higher Education. Rick writes their daily briefing

newsletter. He's with us now. Hi, Rick. Hi, Rick. Hi, thanks so much for having me.

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